Brown Town

The excitement is overwhelming for me.  The new (Third) town square is now open in The Villages.  In spite of what our friend "FRED" calls it, Brown Town, it is actually called Brown Wood and Paddock Square is the spot where all the old goiters will now go to get hammered each night.   AS with everything in The Villages, it is very well done and authentic to the last detail.   The Barnstormer is the theater that has nicer seats in it than our furniture in our living room. 

For whatever reason, The Villages designed the new square to look like old Florida in every way.  They transplanted 2000 huge trees, had sculptures made and brought in from all over the country and have not missed any details right down to horse shoe prints in the concrete on the dance floor.  Now picture this.  Mabel is what, 108 this year and is looped on rum and coke and decides to take a spin with Gomer and she trips in the horse hoof.  Believe me, I've fallen off a sidewalk in The Villages and it was not pretty.  Seeing Mabel spattered out on the dance floor as she attempts to Wobble would not be pretty and would most likely defeat Gomers plans for when they got home at 9:00 pm.

As you can see, part of the new square includes stadium seating which I don't understand.  When you're what, 110 the last thing you need to handle are steps every time you want to do the Wobble.  I look at it this way, The Villages already has 880 clubs, the broken hip club would be a big seller.  The steps unto themselves are not such a big deal nor is Ethel being 112 but when they pickle themselves all night it could just be ugly and something this old fart doesn't want to see.  Having someone's depends come undone in the square would certainly be embarrassing so I will staple mine together so I won't be embarrassed when I fall into the horse hoof print. 

The best part of Brown Town is that everyone who has been occupying Sumter Landing where we hang out will hopefully head south to Brown Town leaving more room for us up at the landing and we won't run out of 7 & 7's.  I'm curious to know if their happy hour down there is one hour or two.   Needless to say, this is the first phase of the town expansion along with 10,000 more homes and a huge shopping mall.   I am very excited to get there.  I always judge a town square by the softness of the bread at Subway.  Highway 466A had dry bread and no change.  The one in Sumter Landing is good, soft bread, proper change and nice people who call me sir.  I think that young whipper snapper behind the counter is wondering if I can actually chew the bread. 

The other new thing in The Villages is a Marcus Welby type medical system.  Less patients and personalized service.  If you're old enough to remember Marcus Welby you'll notice that every time a patient called him at home with a problem he was always drinking and then hopped into his car to go fix their bunions.  I'm not sure but I think Mark had a drinking problem, but Dr. Kiley (Mr. Streisand) always wore his helmet.  What a babe.  The question is this;  Are the new medical services in The Villages good, or a bunch of drunks in Lincoln Continentals coming to lop off a toe in your living room?