Musings on Montgomery

When I first moved to Montgomery, I had to learn a foreign language. Do you know the meaning of “a quart nickel”? Actually, that’s a request for change for a quarter that includes a nickel. The clerks chatted with each customer (including me) at check out lines. Everybody seemed to take their time. I wore a t-shirt, Bermuda shorts and a sat outside at a picnic table in my own backyard on my first Thanksgiving in Montgomery. I shut all the windows and turned the air conditioner on “high” so I could burn the fireplace full blast on my first Montgomery Christmas. I laughed all the way. I found out why nobody did anything in the middle of summer (way, way too hot). That’s the same reason why some people walked down the streets under umbrellas in July. I found out what happens if you don’t enlist the services of a pest control service until you’ve lived here in the same house for one whole year. I was mortified when the “bug man” had to put on a space suit to rid my house of roaches. I found out, too, that giant roaches fly!! I love Montgomery. It’s so much more colorful than Ohio. In Montgomery, even the dirt is red.

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