Slumming in the Southwest

Life at The Major Concern is an ever-changing kaleidescope of districts and neighborhoods: Due to some staff shortages, I am now handling - besides my regular district - a small enclave of something called "unincorporated King County" that includes all the parts of the Seattle metro that none of the surrounding communities want to take. Thus, I am now the temporary electrical handmaiden of the somewhat notorious "White Center" neighborhood (which used to be a lot of fun before the thrift shops closed) as well as parts of something called "Boulevard Park", which sounds glamorous, but decidedly isn't.

True, it's work: And it's populated with honest, salt-of-the-earth, blue-collar folk, but how boring is that? What I mean to say is that it lacks pizzazz. It's certainly no Georgetown, and it's nothing like Columbia City. Hell, it's not even Beacon Hill. But they ask little of me, so it doesn't interfere with my duties in the tonier neighborhoods. Noblesse Oblige, darlings, Noblesse Oblige. Which just goes to prove what kind of person I am: I'll gladly "go south of Roxbury", when duty calls.

That sounds dirty, doesn't it?