{"id":28367,"date":"2016-05-25T23:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T03:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=28367"},"modified":"2016-05-26T00:46:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T04:46:55","slug":"randomthoughts-52616","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2016\/05\/25\/randomthoughts-52616\/","title":{"rendered":"RandomThoughts! (5\/26\/16)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got Thoughts. They are Random. That&#8217;s why we call this article RandomThoughts!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>RandomThoughts belong on a Big Board, so here comes one.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No matter what the Pittsylvania County Sheriff&#8217;s Office says in a press release, 15-year-old boys rarely walk &#8220;away from the Tightsqueeze area of Pittsylvania County&#8221; and disappear. I&#8217;m betting that there&#8217;s something more to this story, and I&#8217;m also betting that we&#8217;ll never find out what it is.<\/li>\n<li>By the time I wrote and published this article, &#8220;the missing teen has been located and is safe&#8221;. That&#8217;s it. Feh.<\/li>\n<li>After the restrooms at Danville&#8217;s Main Street Plaza are finally completed, all the Usual &#8220;Danville Can&#8217;t Do Anything Good&#8221; Bitching Suspects will have completely forgotten about the building. That&#8217;s because nobody will recognize the building for being anything else but another brick building. They&#8217;ll then move on to the next topic that they don&#8217;t understand. By the way, that &#8220;outrage and move on&#8221; happens every time.<\/li>\n<li>I still haven&#8217;t been to Danville Donuts because I keep forgetting about them being open.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s something fundamentally wrong with the high school baseball &amp; softball season extending past the school&#8217;s graduation date.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s good to see that the Virginia Cantaloupe Festival is being moved back to late July.<\/li>\n<li>Philly Cheesesteaks&#8217; new location in Ballou Park Shopping Center has looked ready to go for the past 6+ months, but nothing has happened.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking about Ballou Park Shopping Center, I noticed that CIT has a security guard that patrols the parking lot around their building.<\/li>\n<li>Businesses (and restaurants) that close on Monday suck.<\/li>\n<li>One year, I&#8217;m going to Virgilina&#8217;s Summerfest. Maybe it will be this year. 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