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And the other day, I saw a couple of the centaurs hanging around the neighborhood. They were wearing uniforms, some sort of police-style kind of thing with the hats and jackets and such. One was going from door to door and talking with whoever was home for a bit before going back to the other on the street who was taking notes or something. But I don't like the look of any of this, at all. What are they doing, making a census? Is it some kind of militia? Are they finally starting to take over around here, in an organized way? I think a centaur police would be worse for us than no police at all, which is what we have now. As if *we* are causing problems for *them*? Gimme a break.
I remember the other year when Amazon kind of tried to stake a claim on this area. They sent around some reps, hosted a few meetings which were great because of the free coffee and sandwiches, and we all got these temporary "citizen" cards. They were planning to send in some trades to work on our neighborhood's patched-together electricals & plumbing, and they were going to put in some kind of inter net link, and they even sent in a couple of nurses to make a little clinic for a few weeks, which was really great. And they had a few security type people making the rounds, but not bothering anybody. They talked about one day doing schools, parks, garbage collection, and all this kind of thing I remember from when I was a kid. And we were all starting to warm up to the idea of being Amazon citizens. But I guess once they looked at how much it was costing to fix us up but how we still had no money to buy all their stuff, I guess it didn't make sense to them anymore or something, because they stopped coming around after a while. And our citizen cards expired, and now we never hear from them except for the odd drone they send buzzing around, which they always did anyways. So much for all that. Good sandwiches, though.