They Speak the Truth!

By now I’m sure you’ve all heard about the brouhaha up here in the Seattle area caused by the canine boutique operating under the name “High Maintenance Bitch” .

Let me tell you a little bit about the neighborhood where the business resides and then tell you the truth about why some of the locals there are up in arms about it.

Wallingford is a neighborhood that resides between the hyper-liberal Universitat of Washington and the uber-liberal Fremont neighborhood (the one that proudly sports a statue of Lenin).

Wallingford likes to think of itself as “activist-lite”. They go to the rallies, but they’re not members of the pseudo-anarchist “BlackBloc”. The majority of it’s typical residents attempt to live like their house is a bungalo, even though the previous occupants of the homes raised a generation of baby-boomers in them. The median home price there is hovering around $500K and most of them look like a bad “Trading Spaces” episode on the inside.

Vehicles will vary between the standard VW Microbus to the newest Subaru/Saab wagon on the market. Organic food stores are all you’ll find there. If you want some Oscar Meyer, you’re going to have to skip on over to the Ballard Safeway. But by the looks of the locals when they hit the jogging trails, no one is eating Oscar Meyer.

If I remember correctly, the story about the couple using the “stuff” from their “dry toilet” to compost with came out of Wallingford.

The reason why this store so offends the women of the neighborhood is that they see the sign and think that it is describing them. It offends the men because they haven’t had any meat based protein in so long that they’re brains have turned to mush and they’ll repeat anything their women tell them.

Just thought you might like to know.