Lists
Lists are a personal favorite of mine - I use them all the time, to keep track of things I want to do, need to do, or simply want to keep track of. You’ll see them featured here from time to time - some facetious, others of a more noble nature. Tonight I feature a new one:
The Top 10 Things I’ve Learned About Smithfield, Virginia
10. Dirt roads are abundant. To get to work, it requires traveling several, whilest only being a few miles from a major city. How odd.
9. Speed limits are optional - unless you’re somewhere near a certain company’s plants. Most roads don’t even have one posted.
8. The smell. There is no way to describe ‘the smell’. Just…go with it.
7. It would be faster to travel to Smithfield by boat than car for most.
6. You can easily pick out the locals from the employees of a certain company.
5. There is a pig on the water tower. Or so I’m told - I haven’t seen it myself yet (due to the direction I travel).
4. Don’t speed around a certain company’s plants. This deserves a second mention due to the fact that the Smithfield Police spend their lunch hour betting on the number of employees of a certain company they can catch between the hours of 1 and 5 PM.
3. There are an inexplicable number of attractive women employed by a certain company. Most are in the form of interns, some foreign exchange students. Why they choose to work there, I have no idea, but, all the better.
2. There are some really nice fishing piers there. Check them out if you’re in to that sort of thing.
1. Man, this list had a point when I started….damned being tired all the time.
Ah well. When I originally thought up this post, it was supposed to be funny….so much for that idea. Time to go study for a useless Physics 152 exam.
Oh, one more thing - as the title of this blog is lyrical musings, I thought it important to explain why that is so. I frequently set lyrics to events in my life, and so it seems appropriate. Occasionally, I’ll close a post with lyrics that have some sort of meaning. So, here we go:
“I don’t want your advice, because you never win. Peer pressure - I don’t give in.”