2nd World Living

Here some reasons that I feel I may be living in the 2nd World:

1) The Subway ran out of bread and couldn't make me a sandwich, yet they did offer me a wrap to which I replied, "Ewww."

2) The movie theaters and yard sales boom on the 1st of the month when welfare checks are issued. At the end of the month, everything is dead.

3)I read an article in the paper that claimed that there was a high percentage of people locally who had never been to a doctor's office.

4)Nearly 10% of my students last year were pregnant (10 out of 106) at one point or another.

5)High School students whom I expected to know where France, Quebec, and Louisiana are on a map put them in places like Russia and Africa. I'm not joking.

6)My town of roughly 10,000 has a public housing project that is about the same size as Johnson City's (town of 50,000).

7)There are few jobs other than service-industry jobs.

8)Illegal gambling abounds.

9)Drugs abound.

10)I live in a grass hut.