Guy, what kind of people did they have working on the Manchester Police force? I hope they were all not like that and there aren't any like that today. Did the township recruit that guy from a redneck bar or from the local mental institution? That is over the top! I don't see anything offensive about the term "local yokel." I guess it depends on who says it and how, and in what context. Even if you said something really offensive, cops are not supposed to act that way, and not take things personally. A woman I went out with seem to take offense when I called her a city slicker. She didn't act the way that cop did, though. When she said she wasn't a city slicker, I said that she was living in the city. "But I'm not a slicker," she insisted. I never thought of looking at each of those words separately. The woman was from Puerto Rico, was a social worker who taught a Drexel University part time. She wasn't terribly familiar with all the colloquilisms, slang and idomatic expressions here. She saw a "fly butter" float by. I think the context of my City Slicker remark was our visit to the Pine Barrens.
I wonder if on my visit to the Woodmansie area the time before last, it was a cop who was checking out my car parked at the edge of the road. Anyway, by basically mistakenly driving a sort of loop on the sand roads, I found a better parking spot to explore the switch and railroad tracks, etc. I still will visit Old Halfway/Twin Lakes.
I realize my mistake on my trip now. That's right, I should have crossed that intersection and followed the road to where it turned right. The road more or less curves around the lakes.
One more thing. A city slicker and a local yokel got off at the same train stop. The sign at the depo read that it was three miles to the town. The city slicker asked the local yokel "why is this depo so far from the town?"
"I donno," said the local yokel, "I quess they wanted to put it close to the tracks."
