RARA-AVIS: Re: In Defense of South Bend (kind of)

Victoria Esposito-Shea (vmes@sbt.infi.net)
Sat, 21 Nov 1998 10:52:16 -0500 > I have visited New Haven a few times, and it's always been scary. But
> the scariest place ever was South Bend, Indiana, where I once stopped
> at a corner grocery store while traveling across the country with my
> wife, who was very pregnant. Both the store and the parking lot
> contained types the likes of which I hadn't seen even in L.A. Nothing
> happened, but Werner Herzog or Roman Polanski should have been there,
> with camera.

Mario,

As an eleven-year resident of South Bend, I've gotta ask how on earth you
found this grocery store. There are some really scary neighborhoods in
this city, no doubt about that, but I'm still trying to figure how someone
passing through made it into one of those neighborhoods. (And calling the
local hoods Werner Herzog or Roman Polanski types is giving them too much
credit, IMHO--that gives them a certain glamor that just ain't so. Ask me
off-list about some of the idiots that turned up when I was working in the
public defender's office. . . .)

Barely on-topic,
Vicky Esposito-Shea

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