You get the same excitement of real disasters without the mess. Everyone's nerves are all tingly about the smallest things. No one's desensitized to anything. And at the same time, people worry about tattooed kids coming to concerts in downtown Fredericks-burg.
Tattoos are as volatile an issue here as race or sexual orientation elsewhere.
Same excitement, no hate crimes. Fredericksburg is far from a small town anymore. Whether we like it or not, the area is growing at warp speed and now has the population of a lot of medium-sized cities. We're still Mayberry in the ease with which we can be titillated, shocked and outraged, even though our area has about 200 times the population of Andy and Barney's hometown. Yes, friends, the Greater Fredericksburg Metropolitan Area faces its most dire threat ever this spring in what's already being dubbed Spotsapalooza.