1 June, 2005

I was flipping through some old notebooks and I found a story my friend, Ryan, and his sister told over beers at Sir Benedict's Tavern about the time their parents tricked them into protesting the expansion of Interstate 35 as children.

Ryan:

"So, however many years ago, there were all these protests about the new freeway--there didn't always use to be a freeway, you know--

Ryan's sister:

"This was before the whole underground plan. They wanted to run it right through down town."

Ryan:

"Right. So our parents, they tell us we're going to have a picnic and we end up in the freeway median in Two Harbors and the paper takes a picture of us with the whole picnic in the freeway median with the caption: 'Is this how you want your children to grow up?' or something."

Ryan's sister:

"It was a dead give away when there was actually no food in the basket."