My brain needs a cleansing.

I’m thinking of where I grew up which was a very different place but a community of similar size and gossipiness to Decatur, maybe slightly more suburban, not an incorporated city, and not as urban. Anyway, the way word of a celebrity eating locally would have spread around town then would have been by the mostly stay-at-home mothers phoning one another madly. I actually think the speed of the word getting out would have been quicker because those ladies could dial fast and wide. It’s hard to ignore a ringing phone compared to avoiding to check a blog or email. And those ladies were at home, not carpooling–they waited for the kids to walk or take the bus home. But the spread would have been spottier back then–the social network would have missed working dads and work-out-of-the-home moms. A secondary wave of spread would have occurred the next day when all the kids and teens went back to school and shared what their moms told them about the celebrity event.