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I was driving with my friend past my neighborhood swim club at midday earlier this week. It was sunny and hot. "Why is the pool empty?" she said, rather stunned.
I was rather stunned that she asked. In snoburbia, no one is home between mid-July and mid-August. They have taken to the friendly skies or hit the road. They are at the beach house, the mountain house or, around here, the river house. If they are here, it is only because they are just returning from Sweden or are about to leave for three weeks in New Hampshire.
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As fantabulous as snoburbia is the rest of the year, if you stay around here in the summer, you must really be lame. But I'm okay with it. It's 92 degrees out, and I'll have the snoburbia swimming pool to myself. Okay, I really am lame.
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I'm here all summer. I know it's terribly non-snoburban of me, but I'm a homebody. I like being home. I don't like to travel more than a few days. I'm probably the only asshole on the planet who got homesick on her honeymoon. It's not that I'm so in love with MoCo. MoCo to me is like how Lisa Simpson described America "....sure it has its grandeur and its follies. But mostly it's where our stuff is."
Posted by: nikki | July 27, 2011 at 07:05 PM
The pool was empty because swim team season just ended around here, and now parents (whose lives revolve around swim team) can go on vacation.
Posted by: Charlene | July 27, 2011 at 07:23 PM
You forgot "the vinyard" and of course OBX. I love that there is almost no traffic around here in August. It's the only time of year you can be on the beltway at 8 AM or 5 PM without losing your mind.
Posted by: TH | July 28, 2011 at 07:41 AM
In my snoburbia neighborhood the pool and streets are devoid of kids all summer since they are shipped off to 8 weeks of summer camp. Then mom and dad go on fantastic vacations without them.
Posted by: kelly | August 27, 2011 at 06:41 AM