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My Zipcode

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WP Daily Prompt has the feels and today they want to know:   What do you love about where you live?

I live in a toilet. I hate the town I live in. I moved here to be closer to my family and even though that made my move worth it ( sort of ) sometimes when I’m driving thought Toilet Town, I think to myself  “WTF were you guys thinking?”

But the truth is what makes Toilet Town not such a bad place is that I see it through my dogs eyes and he loves it.

He loves running into our neighbors, he loves the dog park, he likes his Vet. He likes his dog friends. When we are outside we puts his nose to the wind and smiles the way dogs smile.

So I am not in love with Toilet Town, I hate Toilet Town. But it makes my dog happy so me and Toilet Town are good and any affection for Toilet Town is due to that one simple fact.

( all these photos were taken in Toilet Town )

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Hamish Macbeth
2022

Hamish Macbeth
Photo Pualani K.

Hamish and his cousin Stitch

It Is What It Is

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I have nicknamed the town I moved to about 5 years ago.

I call it Toilet Town.

I only moved here to be closer to my family- which is good.

The part that is not good is that Toilet Town’s cultural heart is Walmart and at one point  it’s soul was housed in the body of a  local business owner who had threatened  to shoot marchers who had been permitted by the city to march in the area the business was located in if they ‘rioted’.

Just as an FYI the owner got nailed for that (being that the march was being hosted by local high school kids )  and when this business did not survive the Covid Shutdowns, I shed no effing tears.

So I do not have one single good word to say about the town I live in. It’s a toilet.

On the other hand a large part of Washington state is not a toilet and I love the mountains and the coast line and I love it that I can zip up to Victoria BC on the Ferry when the Spirit moves me-which it does- often.

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Butchart Gardens
Victoria BC

Sometimes I toy with the idea of moving away from Toilet Town, but like I said. I like living close to my family.

And I have to admit.

I really do enjoy hating Toilet Town. I enjoy hating it ALOT.

Orpheus
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