My Life on a Legal Pad

Surprised that the local NPR station would suddenly offer ultra-lite jazz that sounded like telephone wait-queue music. Realized it was filler for tech fail, meant to sound neutral. It just sounded strange.

As out-of-state folks (like me) move to Maine, I hear the genuine True Mainer accent less & less often. But in a big box store last week, a shopper gave a friend her viewpoint on the large size of the shopping carts: "They make the cahts big 'cause they think you'll buy moah."