Detroit Red Wings Fans: Are They Everywhere?
A few weeks ago, I was driving back from seeing my daughter sing at a state competition. She has one of the most beautiful voices, and she has won almost every singing competition she has entered. She even sang for the Queen at the Oklahoma Renaissance Faire. But I’m getting off the subject. On the way back I decided to stop at a Wal-Mart in, of all places, Okmulgee, Oklahoma—a little spit of a town here in Okieland. Oklahoma is full of these small towns whose big claim to fame is that they have a “Super” Wal-Mart. It’s not that this upsets me but it makes me laugh. I came down here from Detroit, a city with a population of two million people as opposed to a whole state of that same population. You measure distance by how long it takes to get somewhere, not by milage. Getting directions from someone is not, “Right at Main Street, left at Cleveland, etc.” It’s more like, “Go down here about a mile and a half and turn left at the first dirt road, and pull into the driveway of the third h
