Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Turn Your Stomach, Mr. Elephant


Florence, Missouri - The scene: A defunct shopping mall; one of those small, poorly conceived models of the late 1960s, early '70s. No place for man, woman, 'teen, nor 'tween. You aren't going to find anything nicer than a Spencer's. Anyway, the place was desolate and boarded up.


BUT! The circus was in town. And what did we spy next to the fence separating the mall parking lot from I-435? A circus elephant eating the leaves off some scrubby and dry plant-looking-piece of shrubbery.


No scene could have been uglier. What is wrong with people?