Joggin' donuts

You might be interested in knowing a little about the state that Boston resides in. (If not, please go do something you find more engaging, such as harvesting zucchini.) Boston is of course in Massachusetts, whose name means "You are never more than 50 feet from a Dunkin' Donuts." There is a Dunkin' Donuts on every corner and often in between the corners. I remember seeing a large concentration of these fine establishments in Vermont on a previous visit to that state. In fact, Vermont's chief industry is donuts. They have passed a law mandating approximately 2.3 Dunkin' Donuts stores for every resident of Vermont, plus a few extra for visitors, who descend upon the state in large droves every fall and winter to partake of these fine treats.

But back to Massachusetts and Boston. As a direct result, I personally think, of the abundance of Dunkin' Donuts, everyone in Boston -- and I mean everyone, including fox terriers and ducks -- jogs. Boston must be The Most Fit City (as opposed to where I live, which was voted Most Unfit City a few years back, and we don't have nearly the amount of donut establishments). And of course there is the Boston Marathon, which is a famous annual race between joggers and tourist trolleys. The trolleys have yet to win, because they are always being disqualified for making unscheduled stops. Meanwhile, the joggers yell jeering things at the trolleys as they whiz past, such as "My Munchkin can run faster than you!" Due to the dismal operation of trolleys in the city, the tourist office is thinking of hiring joggers to take visitors around.

When you visit Boston, you will also notice that there are no crime-ridden areas, unless you count the office where we bought our trolley tickets. Since it is inconceivable that no such places exist, I think the city moves them around, at night, so they are always in a different spot and tourists never see them.

So now you know a little about Massachusetts and Boston, probably less than you wanted to know, certainly less than the average preschooler learns in school. Tomorrow we'll take a look at some of the very interesting things to do in Boston. Besides going to Dunkin' Donuts.