> maxo wrote:

>> On May 22, 6:01 am, Jerry Perkins wrote:

>>> maxo wrote:

>>>> On May 21, 10:51 am, "Faye" worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>>>>> "Paul Stevens" bellsouth.net> wrote in message
>>>>>news:4650F919.5030502@bellsouth.net...

>>>>>> I noticed the bright light and thought it was a plane headed
>>>>>> for Tune with it's landing lights on.

>>>>> Will everyone please turn off their exterior lights at night and have those
>>>>> stupid security lights in their yards turned off? It's nighttime. It's
>>>>> supposed to be dark. Light at night is pollution.

>>>> You wanna chase the crack and meth heads out of my alley, and we've
>>>> got a deal.

>>> Quit providing the light to see by and they will leave.

>

>> Yeah, people don't loot when there are power outages, instead
>> preferring to read a well thumbed copy of Aesop's Fables to their
>> children by kerosene lantern. The soft yellow light illuminates the
>> room, so that one can barely make out the gingham curtains. "Goodnight
>> dear father," they say as you finish up the story about the the fox
>> and the grapes. You tuck them in and kiss them on the head...

>

>> then regain consciousness after that speed freak whacked you with a
>> length of pipe and stole your wallet.

>
> WOW! That brings back a memory--from long, long ago--when my family did
> *exactly that* during a power outage. I was about eight...got to be the
> first reader. In fact, to this day it's difficult to 'not' associate
> any mention of Aesop's with that memory! Another time when we read King
> Arthur and the Knights....
>
> No speed freaks that I knew of back then.
>