Chestertown

So the day before I left for fall break (October 15th), I go out to my car to see a bright orange ticket on my windshield, with the word "VIOLATION" on the front. I'm thinking, what in the world could I possibly get a violation for? Well, it turns out, I was parked incorrectly... How that's possible, I don't really know. But, I am appealing it, so we'll see what happens. 

The whole thing made me laugh really, because in my head, I could hear my friend Alice's voice saying, "Only in Chestertown." Which is absolutely true. Here is a compilation of things that have happened to me so far this semester... Things that seem to only be possible in this small town on the Eastern Shore:

1.) Getting pulled over the first night back at school. Somehow, in the ONE MILE it takes for me to drive from school to the river, only in Chestertown can you get pulled over.

2.) Only in Chestertown will an old lady with a limp approach you at 5:30 am at Dunkin Donuts to tell you "I will pay you to help me bucket out the water from me cellar. Just get into my car..." Yes, at Dunkin Donuts at 5:30 AM. 

3.) Only in Chestertown will you see an intoxicated 23 year old from God-knows-where, come up to you at 2:30 to tell you that although he has TWO hotel rooms, he is looking for a a bar to sleep at. Oh, and he was standing on the dock of the river while telling us this... As if there might be a bar on the river?

4.) Only in Chestertown will you find going to the Library a social event.

5.) Only in Chestertown will you find going to the river at 3 am incredibly fun. 

6.) Only in C-town will you dance in the parking lot of the dock by yourselves at 2 am.

7.) Only in C-town will you stay up all night at said dock, doing nothing but talking, looking forward to DD opening at 5:30, so you can get coffee. 

8.) Only in C-town will a man you have never seen before touch your purse and say, "This is shit." What that means, you still don't know. 

9.) Only in C-town will a seemingly drunken farmer ask you who will win the Presidential Election. When you respond "McCain" he says that he will vote for Obama because "Biden is from Delaware and because MD is next to DEL, he will look out for us." ... Huh?

10.) Then, the seemingly drunken farmer will engage you in a ten minute conversation about how women are the problem with this country, and how he is suing 14 women in November. (?)

11.) Only in C-town will a man with an amputated arm talk about his sexcapades to a store full of customers. 

That's all I can think of for now....