"Mitchell Hundreds: Trip, the city is drowning, we can’t afford to lose another day of commerce, but my plow drivers are refusing to do their job…even 'with police escorts. You have to convince the governor to call the national guard. Trip: Sorry, hundred. Those men and women are too busy fighting a war on terror to shovel your walkway for you."
January 1, 1970
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