College Campus

As we were driving to Brock's mentoring meeting yesterday morning, Brock made the comment that downtown Franklin was like a college campus. We parked at a little restaurant downtown where Brock meets every week called Merridee's. I met one of my friends there for coffee to pass the time while he was in his meeting. After a while, we walked down to the Starbucks to visit a friend that was working there. She was walking out and met us on the sidewalk. She happened to be on her lunch break and was going to the tea shop to visit with our other friend who worked there. We all went in the tea shop and pulled up a chair to hang out for a while. After she went back to work at Starbucks, another friend came in and hung out with us.

I told them all about Brock's statement earlier and everyone decided that he's right. There are all kinds of old buildings in downtown. Everybody knows everybody. You walk everywhere. The "police" give stupid tickets like backing into a parking spot. We decided that Merridee's is like our cafeteria and our friend that works there is on "work study" in the cafeteria.

If you've ever wished that you could stay in college forever, live in Franklin. It's just like a college campus!