Life in a Small East Texas Town, Chapter 1

This afternoon, after a wonderful Thanksgiving meal (smoked turkey, cornbread dressing, corn casserole, mashed potatoes, green bean salad, homemade rolls, homemade cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, cocoanut cream pie, and pecan pie), and just as the clean-up was begoinning, Cec yelled that the water was off.  The water system is run by two guys who live just across the road from us, and I gave them a call to find out what was wrong.  Howard said Doug had just left to check on it.

A while later Doug stopped by to tell us that a woman up the street had a drainage problem at her home and did not know how to turn off the water.  For some reason she knew the location of one of the main valves at the water plant and how to turn it off, which she did.  That turned off water to about 1/3 of the water system customers.  

In the big city the perpetrator would probably be conferring with her defense attorney about now. In Riverside, however, our guys just told her never to do it again and turned the water back on.