President Obama and I were both in Elyria yesterday. That is what I am told, anyway. I didn't see him and he didn't see me, and I'm fine with that.
As I crossed the bypass, I noticed police cars parked at either side of the intersection. I assume they were there to stop traffic on all the side streets so that the presidential motorcade could speed along the highway. When I went to the post office to drop off Dad's change of address form, I could see further down the street that Cleveland Street was totally blocked off, with traffic being re-routed to Gulf Road. The president had lunch at Smitty's, apparently; a working-class greasy spoon where I never ate in all the years I lived in Elyria.
I think it's fine that the president visited Elyria, and I think it's even better that we didn't impact each other's time there in any way.
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Like two ships that pass in the night...
so you didn't know at the time that he would be in town? did you wonder if it was going to be a police chase, like that one time we were in bowling green?
I actually DID know he was going to be in town - that's how I figured out why the cop cars were there. It was nowhere near as exciting as that time in
BG.
Seeing these kind of posts reminds me of just how technology truly is ubiquitous in this day and age, and I think it is safe to say that we have passed the point of no return in our relationship with technology.
I don't mean this in a bad way, of course! Societal concerns aside... I just hope that as technology further innovates, the possibility of downloading our memories onto a digital medium becomes a true reality. It's one of the things I really wish I could experience in my lifetime.
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