A tiny (tourist) town tale. … My sister works one day a week at our tiny but proud little library. It is part of the countywide system that will ship books and videos owned by any branch to anybody in the county who makes a request.
She thought up that little saying and printed up a few on 2x3 inch bits of paper to put up at the little community bulletin board outside our Post Office. Anyone can open it and post stuff for sale, apartment for rent, Town event etc. notices. It is cleaned out on an irregular +/- weekly basis. Tiny town, low key, but lots of tourist eyes walking by in addition to the locals.
She posted one, then noticed it gone after a couple days. She guessed it was just the normal weekly sweep out so she put up another. And then found it ripped in four and tossed in the trash can inside a day or two later; she wasn’t paying too close of attention.
So, she made some more and gave a few to me to post occasionally. They aren’t lasting very long, for some reason. How could someone get so upset over promoting libraries to help get a little more traffic? We are tiny and struggle to get enough use to keep the County funding. If we didn’t sell so many stamps to tourists the U.S.P.S. would love to shut our historic looking P.O., which is our affordable lifeline to the real world out there. No expensive trips a few miles away, down the mountain, to the bigger town over.
My question to the DKos community is “What could be so triggering to someone about the title of this diary?”
A few others have heard about and asked my sister to print up a few dozen so they can help replacing them more quickly when they get taken down. I think we are up to a couple times a day now.
As a closing thought, ‘if we could keep the temperature at this low level rather than Milwaukee levels the world would still make forward progress at a reasonable pace.’ Just my two nickels, no more cents.