So today I took off to the barbershop for a somewhat regular 2 week haircut, blissfully unaware of the kind of attitudes and political ignorance I would encounter there.
Let me first set the scene.
I live in Arizona on the outskirts of Phoenix. The area I currently live in used to be a small, rural area filled with orange orchards, dairies and other types of farms. More recently, the area has become the outpost of Phoenix's ever-expanding suburban sprawl, bringing middle-class transplants, snowbird retirement communities, strip malls and huge pre-planned homesites to this former desert farmland. The area is in a growth spurt, but still has rural, small town enclaves, though increasingly surrounded by sprawl. My barbershop is located in one of them.
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