I’ll take it up with the Richard committee

He’s certainly not spending his time keeping current on news.

Fake news. As us 80s kids know, ketchup is a vegetable

So yeah, small town charm, false appeals to history, and bullying. All at once.

Anyhooo.... I got a raspberry pie. Hopefully it is good.

FP (gruffly). "Here. Are. My. Four. Pies."

LP (sighing). "Okay, you can have four pies."

(FP clearly puts two $20 bills on the table)

LP (smiling). "Pies are $20 donation now, if you please."

FP (even more gruffly). "They used to be $10."

(FP pushes the $40 over the table and walks out)

FP (mildly angry): "I've been coming to this sale and buying four pies every time since before you were born!"

Another LP: "I was on the Library board when we started this sale in 2003, so that's not possible. But we always allowed two pies per person in the past."

First person into the pie sale (who I think camped out, we'll call them FP) promptly walks up and grabs four pies.

Library Person (LP): "Due to demand, we're asking people to stick to one pie. If you want another, you can wait through the line and see if more are available."

I like to to this every year, since, hey, library! And hey, pie! And the pies are pretty decent, and generally handmade.

But every year there's random drama of the small town variety.

The biggest drama this year was that, due to demand, they put a limit of one pie per person (reasonable).

In Iceland people really do go out and collect puffins, because they get confused by the streetlights and come inland, and they need rounding up/popping in cardboard boxes and taking to the beach. planetforward.org/story/puffin...