Reply #20: In my home town - there is siren at 9 pm too! [View All]

When the siren goes off - you better be home!! Actually, the siren thing was just kinda quaint. But, no one EVER washed a car on Sunday. OR mowed the lawn! And all of the stores closed at 5:00 so everyone could get home for supper (actually that's not such a bad thing either).

But Orange City...jeez, that place was/is tied with Sioux Center as the home of Calvinist piety in IA. I remember when a throng of strapping young Dutchmen decided it would be a good idea to beat the hell out of us because we were listening to the B-52's in a park in OC back in '81. Ah, good times, good times.

My Uncle used to have to go to the bowling alley to buy beer. No hard stuff though, no bars or beer sold over the counter back then. Of course, I've been to places even harsher in Tennessee and Arkansas. But, there it's more of a 'redneck republicanism', here its more of 'let's pretend we're still in the old country' kind of conservatism.

OK, back to work now