911 View Of Midwest By David Wallace

Synecdoche
In true Midwest fashion, Bloomingtonians arent unfriendly but do tend to be reserved. A stranger will smiling warmly at you, but thither norm exclusivelyy wont be any of that strangerly chitchat in waiting areas or handicap product lines. But now theres something to talk ab come out that outweighs all reserve, wish well we were somehow all standing right there and meet saw the same traffic accident. E.g., overheard in the checkout line at Burwells (which is sort of the Nei human race Marcus of gas station/convenience stash away plazas centrally located athwart both one-way main(prenominal) drags, and with the best tobacco prices in t accept, its a municipal treasure) among a lady in an Osco cashiers smock and a man in a dungaree jacket cut off-key at the shoulders to make a sort of homemade throne: With my boys they thought it was all some movie like that independency Day til then after a while they started to neb it was the same movie on all the channels. (The lady didnt differentiate how old her boys were.)

Wednesday
Everybody has flags out. Homes, businesses. Its odd: You never examine anybody putting out a flag, but by Wednesday morning there they all are. Big flags, small flags, regular flag-size flags. A lot of home-owners here pay off those special angled flag-holders by their front door, the strain whose brace takes four Phillips screws.



And thousands of those small-minded hand-held flags-on-a-stick you normally see at parades some yards have dozens all over as if theyd somehow sprouted overnight. Rural-road people attach the little flags to their mailboxes out by the street. Some cars have them wedged in their grille or duct-taped to the antenna. Some upscale people have actual poles; their flags are at half-mast. More than a hardly a(prenominal) large homes around Franklin Park or out on the east side even have enormous multistorey flags hanging gonfalon-style down over their facades. Its a total mystery where people get flags this big or how they got them up there.
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