you know you are really living in the country when...

Today, I had a dentist appointment, seeing as it was my first one since I left LA over a year and half ago, (Japanese dentists seem really scary to me, especially since the general population has some of the worst teeth ever seen) and knowing that I had a brown spot on my tooth which may be my FIRST ever cavity, I was pretty freaked out. However, after doing an exam and checking my x-rays I was told that the "cavity" was actually a stain (THANK GOD!!) and that all I needed was a simple cleaning and i could be on my way....

So I began to relax and check out the view across the street (the exam room has a giant window in it, so that the patient can watch the cars pass by)...first I noticed the passing semis, then I noticed a little brick house on the corner, then I noticed a couple of black cows, grazing in a pen....Why are there cows across the street from my dentist's office? I guess i didn't notice when I drove in, that the town ends on the other side of the building...and the dental office is on the back side of the building....how wierd is that. It's like being in an old western where they have one street and behind the row of shops is a wide open space....and there are cows!! real-live cows...that i can watch from my chair in the exam room....Does anyone else find this strange???

So after staring at the cows for about 45 minutes, I left the dentist's office and decided I was starving for a burger (I know, I'm sick.) As I go to Wendy's for the "super disgusting in a totally processed and coronary-inducing way" Mushroom, bacon melt thing...I sit in the corner and observe some of the local highschool kids on there lunch break. The boys were talking about an event that happened the night before, where one of their friends got pulled over by the cops (it was Halloween) and when they searched the car they found almost 500 empty shotgun shells. I was like, WHAT? but seeing as this is Ranchers' territory, it wasn't really an issue...and since the kid wasn't drinking nor did he have any sort of suspicious materials in his car, he was let go to tell the tale of his narrow escape from the cops. 500 shotgun shells...um does anyone else think that might be a tad suspicious?