Dear Elders,
What is there to do in town besides shop for useless knick-knacks, get drunk or help the umpteen thousand homeless, drug-addicted or otherwise suffering people of our city?
Signed,
Mr. Herr
Jan Stickler
Dear Mr. Mr.,
Wow, what neighborhood do you live in? I’d hate to stumble into it accidentally, but maybe I’d recognize it by the dark cloud of doom that must settle over it.
The city I live in has music, theater, good restaurants, hiking trails, rivers and ponds, sport facilities and numerous other things I have yet to discover.
Then again, you didn’t say Concord, just town. You must be talking about some other place.
Steve Leavenworth
Dear Mr. Herr,
If at whatever age you are, your imagination is so limited that you can only think of shopping, getting drunk or looking down on the unfortunate, I really have only one suggestion: Get off your backside and go volunteer your time.
Teach the illiterate to read, help the blind, help at the hospital. If you are a professional, use your training and volunteer some of your time “pro bono,” so to speak. Go back to school and study something you have an interest in.
Living in Concord, you are equidistant from sailing and boating, fishing, hunting, hiking, beautiful countryside to paint or photograph, close to excellent entertainment in Boston, and wait! There’s more! I’m not out of ideas, I’m out of space.
Roioli Schweiker
Dear Mr. Herr,
Well, let me think. There is not much left I want to buy downtown, and I seldom eat out. However, there is a bank which I patronize. The bus stops there if you don’t want to drive. Best of all, there is the Woman’s Club of Concord, 44 Pleasant St., which has scheduled programs twice a month and many additional activities and projects.
Casper Kranenburg
Dear Doomsayer,
For you, Mr. Herr (isn’t that a double gender identification?), there is only one thing to do: Call the moving company and get out of town before The Insider reveals your name and address. You would do us all a favor by moving as far away as you can from our beautiful city. We need your kind like a hole in the head and wish you the best on some uninhabited island where you can reflect on this question for years to come.
Bill Twibill
Dear Mr. Error,
If that is what you consider having a life, then go on and maybe you will find out what it is like to lose a job (if you have one) and not be able to pay your bills. Look up the word compassion (go to the library, since I’m sure you do not own a dictionary). So many people have real problems and need extra care to get them through rough times. Some may bring it upon themselves. That is the reality of life. Others try and can barely make it. They need the help of the more fortunate to get them through these times. So go ahead and get drunk and perhaps someone might just help you get on your feet before you join the “umpteen thousand” homeless. You need a good lesson in faith, hope and charity.
