Florida: Land of no people

I went to Florida and it helped my obvious depression. It was too hot, but it was somewhere else. The Gulf of Mexico was 85 degrees. I like warm water. I don’t know the temperature of the Atlantic at Cocoa Beach the day we went but it wasn’t as warm, but certainly nicer than the Pacific. The waves were bigger though. I thoroughly enjoyed the places we visited. We didn’t do Disney…they are just prohibitively expensive. Too bad I like the concept at Disney. They have finally priced themselves to the point I just won’t pay it. The Kennedy Space Center is very interesting. And there is a ride at one of the Universal Parks that was worth the trip by itself. The Spiderman 3-d was amazing. The best 3-d presentation I’ve ever seen.

The one thing I wondered while we were there is where do the people live? I came to the conclusion no one lives in Florida. Those who claim to are really shipped in from somewhere else or are robots. We did see one little town called Celebration. There were actual Town Houses there, and it almost had a feel of being a movie set. The place was clean and no one on the street, while doing its best to be a prop. There was even a police car on the side of the street, with no one in it. We went to see the Harry Potter 5 film at a small theater, with free refills on the popcorn and soda. We went the day after the movie release. It was a 2 theater complex. There were maybe five people in the theater with us. I could not believe the emptiness. Where I’m from you have to stand in line still to get into the show.

There was no one there from Florida. People from Scotland and England, and Poland, and Wyoming, and Ohio…there were no Floridians. So who created the voting problem in Gore vs. Bush? Where were all the Potter fans? The news said there was a small plane that crashed into a couple houses somewhere in Orlando while we were there. We saw some smoke. But we saw no houses anywhere. We saw an alligator and a lot of water. There were tons of tourists. Maybe that was the problem, no one really lives in Florida and so no one really voted. The ballots were not really punched at all. I think the place is a pretend state. I’ve seen thick woods in New York and Connecticut. But there if you drive around a little you at least see some houses nestled in the trees. I guess I wonder about everyone who supposedly retires to live in Florida, where do they go? There were a ton of people at Clearwater beach the day we went, but none of them were from Florida.

Is it possible that Floridians avoid the beaches and the tourist areas? I saw a commercial about some political proposition to do something for the residents of Orlando for a change, now they have created a tourist Mecca. I would have voted against it. The idea was to raise taxes on hotel rooms so that visitors would pay for whatever it was the locals wanted. I can’t pass judgment on that we have something similar going on here where I live, but if no one really lives there who is going to vote for the proposition? The tourist can’t vote. Sounds like taxation without representation to me. There was one place in Wyoming we found that was at least honest about its local population….2. We met the entire population of that town that day. They were surprisingly enough from Wyoming. Florida needs some towns like that. They need a place where the visitors can go look at Floridians. I enjoyed Harry Potter without all the crowds, but it’s un-American to sit alone in a blockbuster without a bunch of others. Maybe they take the Harry Potter is evil movement more seriously than I do. But I suspect that must be programmed into the robot locals, by some anti Harry person. The one real person who lives there must hate Harry. They probably didn’t even get the last book.

Somehow that seems weird to me. Harry has grown up with my kids. I love the series and the books. But I’ve also been told how evil I must be to enjoy such trash. Somehow that comes off hollow to me because that same source loves Disney, with their witches, dwarves, beasts, and a mouse who is some wizard’s apprentice. So maybe that is what happened to the Floridians, they weren’t blown away by hurricanes, they were put under a spell to remain hidden from the tourists. That’s why the prices at Disney are so high, the overhead necessary to maintain the spell. Which explains the warm water in the Gulf…Florida is really Hell. It explains how hot it was down there. It also explains why people retire to Florida and are never seen again. It is really Pleasure Island from Pinocchio where you go and have fun, but in the end you’ll just pay the taxes for the devils that are hidden from view, the locals. It is in the end the reason why Florida doesn’t vote well. They are really evil voters who are thrust to hell after their lives in New York. Don’t get me started about the evils in New York.