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Last summer when I was getting out of the town pool, my bathing suit fell down a little and everyone saw it happen. And before I even dried off, the pictures were posted all over the Internet. Carla Saw this at the town pool today! 24 likes Nancy This kid really "cracked" me up!

These days you can even get in trouble for taking a picture of YOURSELF. A few months ago we went to brunch after church, and when we left the restaurant, I felt like I might have spinach in my teeth. I wasn't anywhere near a mirror, so I borrowed Mon's cell phone to take a picture of myself, just to make sure. But some lady in front of me thought I was taking a photo of HER, and she wouldn't let us leave until she looked through the pictures on Mon's phone to make sure I HADN'T.

Now that I think of it, that might've been what started Mom on this electronics-free idea to begin with. Speaking of which, Mom got all the signatures she needed to take her petition to Town Hall. The way she GOT them was by intercepting all the partygoers as they were leaving our house the other night. After Mom took the petition to Town Hall, the leaders had a vote and made it official. So this Saturday, the whole town is going to voluntarily unplug for the weekend.

Mom's made it her mission to get the word out to as many people as possible. I'm trying to keep a low profile until this whole thing is over, but Mom hasn't been making it easy. I think cutting ourselves off from the outside world is a bad idea. If there's a zombie apocalypse or something big like that, we're gonna be the LAST ones to know.

Friday. As part of this electronics-free weekend, everyone's supposed to come down to the town park tomorrow for a voluntary cleanup. But it's gonna take a lot more than one afternoon to make a dent in THAT mess. These days, the park looks like something out of a movie where there's been a nuclear war.

The park used to be NICE, but things went downhill when the town ran out of money. The main reason was because they voted to build a one-way "cell phone only" path through the park, since half the time people on the REGULAR path weren't watching where they were going. So all the money that was supposed to go to regular cleanup went to this new path for people who wanted to use their electronic devices while they walked.