There is a place, not far from here, where all is perfect- they call it Happy Avenue. It’s a most perplexing place, almost an aberration in its unusualness.
Each garden is kept perfectly neat and trim with organised flower beds so that each season the same or complementing plants sprout and flower simultaneously before each house.
Each house is kept immaculate- there are no rotting beams or window frames on Happy Avenue, no peeling or stained paint. Each car on each well-maintained drive sparkles in the ever present Californian sunshine.
On every face a smile can be seen, and in every smile are perfect teeth. Everyone’s clothes are pressed in the right places and are always clean, while every passer-by is given a friendly greeting.
These are the ways Happy Avenue stays happy and shows the world it is happy.
But don’t be cynical: this is no Desperate Housewives or Stepford Wives scenario. This is no paper thin façade. And within, each house is just as shiny in appearance as without- whether guests are present or not- there never seem to be familial issues here.
It’s like something is in the water. It certainly isn’t about money or status as that’s pretty varied along the street. Maybe it’s just a shared sense of community that has either gone or never appeared in the surrounding streets. Or perhaps it’s just a desire to be presentable, to always be perfectly neat and tidy.
Or maybe it’s the effect of so much sunshine.
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Each garden is kept perfectly neat and trim with organised flower beds so that each season the same or complementing plants sprout and flower simultaneously before each house.
Each house is kept immaculate- there are no rotting beams or window frames on Happy Avenue, no peeling or stained paint. Each car on each well-maintained drive sparkles in the ever present Californian sunshine.
On every face a smile can be seen, and in every smile are perfect teeth. Everyone’s clothes are pressed in the right places and are always clean, while every passer-by is given a friendly greeting.
These are the ways Happy Avenue stays happy and shows the world it is happy.
But don’t be cynical: this is no Desperate Housewives or Stepford Wives scenario. This is no paper thin façade. And within, each house is just as shiny in appearance as without- whether guests are present or not- there never seem to be familial issues here.
It’s like something is in the water. It certainly isn’t about money or status as that’s pretty varied along the street. Maybe it’s just a shared sense of community that has either gone or never appeared in the surrounding streets. Or perhaps it’s just a desire to be presentable, to always be perfectly neat and tidy.
Or maybe it’s the effect of so much sunshine.
FYI: 250 (Jumbled) Words - follow Jumbled tag for others from it, too.
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