This is not a riddle. This is an explanation of why I am meant to live in a city.

City vs Country - Round 1

It’s not the trees that line every roadway, which cause sunlight to come through off and on, thereby creating nature’s very own version of blinky lights and causing migraine symptoms.

It’s not that you have to drive for twenty minutes to find a restaurant that doesn’t serve either fast food, barbecue, or catfish.

It’s not even that the grocery stores close at 10 p.m. Though that is most certainly irksome.

It’s the wildlife.

It’s the tics and the loud-ass crickets and the huge frog that was sitting in the middle of the walkway when we got home last night (okay actually the frog was kind of cool).

It’s not that I hate animals or nature or anything.

Yesterday, when I glanced out into the yard to see a very Bambi-esque deer meandering along the shrubbery and having a snack, I thought, ‘Aw, look at the cute little deer.’

But today, when we were headed out and we almost ran over a wild turkey that was walking across the driveway, it was too much.

It’s early August. I can’t be flashing forward to Thanksgiving already.