Livingston takes a break from Ps and Qs
September 6, 2007 | Filed Under LOL News Shorts or Briefs? (satire) | No Responses
Generations of advice notwithstanding, Livingstonians have stopped minding their Ps and Qs. It started simply enough about a year and a half ago, about the same time as folks were getting rich from the Livingston housing boom, and dog houses on the east side hit the market at $175K. Heady with our new-found importance, a few residents stopped yielding to the car approaching from the right at four-way intersections without stop signs. Then residents began taking cell phone calls in restaurants and other public places. Sunday churchgoers soon found the liturgy interrupted by “Where are you? 
Church. Yeah. Okay. Okay, yeah. She did? Uh-huh. Order me the pizza with pesto. Garden salad. Yeah. Okay. Bye.” Funerals were held up as astonished black-clad mourners found red cowboy shirts in their midst. Red boots, too. Soon even schoolchildren were saying the b-word.
While no-one seems to know what a P or a Q is, people in town are tossing them out with a Bozeman-like abandon. Back in the day, minding your Ps and Qs meant “don’t talk back to your father.” Nowadays it stands for, “For god’s sake, Eddy, take that gun out of your sister’s face. You know how daddy feels about you using his 357.” So who knows what will happen next in the town that courtesy seems to be forgetting.
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