Twilight Zone

Last week the little woman and I drove into the flatland countryside to see some small rural towns we had never seen before; we didn't use our map. On the outskirts of one was a giant water tower. The top line in large letters on the tower read CAPA; under that in the second line in large letters was CITY; and the third line read 200,000. I screeched our car to a halt. "What" I said to Joan, "200,000? How can that be? Nothing but a small, dirty general store, a broken-down old gas station, and a dozen little houses in this village called Capa City. And the closest towns must be thirty miles away, and are just as tiny." She laughed AT me all the way home.

-Old Doc