Barbara, Evonne, Stella, Alice, June, Margaret
"Before and After"
What would happen if one of the country folk ended up in the city? and the opposite?
Joe would go crazy. Joe has a wife and he has children, they
have to be 16 to work all those tools. Depending on what the tools are. His
children are taking care of the farm while he’s in the city. Yeah he’ll go
crazy. He won’t like New York. I don’t think the average farmer will want to go
to New York. He’ll get lost, it’s too busy, too noisy, and there’s no freedom.
I mean there’s too many objects. No, I wouldn’t want to be in New York for love
or money. Go to the empire state building. He will probably do it alone but
there’s always someone in the elevator with you. He’ll get friendly. Its not easy to get friendly with people in
new York. Tell him to go jump off the Eifel
tower. He can’t make friends because everybody’s in a hurry and they’re not
interested in giving him information because they are all interested in going
home or going to get something to eat. If I were him I’d run like mad to get
away. Joe is startled by the city. He’s going to see one of the shows. He has
to adapt. Joe's wife has decided to come along. She’s use to all the country stuff. It’s going to be
different for me. She’s used to having a garden, doing things at home and
always doing everything herself. She has to find new things to do in the city.
They will probably have problems. It’s completely different there. I don’t think they will be in danger. I don’t
think they will stay happy because they are not used to that lifestyle and they
don’t like all the people. I think they
will argue about staying in New York but eventually go back to the country. A
lot depends on their age. They will stay married for awhile at least. There are
a lot of things to do in the country If he wants to be busy, but if he doesn’t want
to stay busy he won’t and they’ll divorce. It is their own business. They will
stay married. They will pretend like New York never happened. The farm is a
mess when they get back since the children were taking care of it. They are 16
so they better be on alert. The plants are overgrown and there are weeds. The
animals are ok, the kids kept fed them and kept them alive, like you would with
your dog. Maybe they will get into a little bit of trouble but not a lot of
trouble. If it were me they’d be in a lot of trouble. They’d be in trouble with
me, I can assure you of that. The parents will say go out there and cut the
weeds and clean this place up. They didn’t have any parties. They don’t know
what a wild party is. Everybody lived happily ever after, to each is own.
What if we would bring one of the city people and put them
in the country? Some would go crazy. Some would enjoy the outdoors. They’d have
free roaming. They’d have the freedom they don’t have in the city. No, I don’t
think they’d like the country. There’s too much space and not enough people.
The New Yorker would be thinking get me out of here. He’s just going to walk
around and look at the trees and the countryside. Not have to deal with the
traffic and the noise. They are going to farm.
He’s going to do the same thing quite different. Everybody’s going to go back to what they were used to and
see no change.
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