I blinked when the blinding sun flashed into my face as I stepped onto the baseball field. Red, white, and blue streamers dangled from the pitched tents, fluttering about when I passed beneath. A live band was playing, although I could not understand a single word they were singing. The only thing I could hear was the obnoxious thump, thump, thump of the drums. Surely they did not consider that trash music. Don’t get me wrong, I love about every genre of music there is. However, a small town band of drugged-out apes, attempting to play rock music, was painful to hear. I wondered if they actually believed they were good. If so, they were delusional. It sounded more like two cats fighting. I winced, trying to block out the dreadful screeching.
Children ran in all directions, scurrying about
