A Glimpse Of Ropes

Ropes (Ropesville) has no bank, no supermarket, no place to get groceries of any kind, not very many paved streets, no cemetery (that we could see), no convenience store, no public park, no doctors or clinics that we could find, or a dentist, or a movie theater-- things you take for granted in a city of any size. We couldn't find any provision for trash collection or street repair but surely they must have something along those lines. Ropes is very small and has a few churches and a cotton gin. Couldn't be sure of it but there might be a shade tree mechanic or two. There's a school and a football stadium, of course. We couldn't find a place to buy gas. To find a bank or buy a few groceries or to put gas in your car it's about a twenty mile round trip. You'd better have a car. But some of the tumbledown houses in Ropes don't have vehicles in evidence. Some structures we took to be uninhabited or uninhabitable had window air-conditioners hanging out of holes cut in the wall, and there were plastic toys among the weeds around most of them. No dogs or cats anywhere, and not many people outside, but just about every structure seemed to be in use by someone. Hard to imagine how they survive. We saw one guy in a Mercedes Sedan checking a padlock on a storage building. We saw several big trucks and SUVs. We encountered a lot of flies and a bad stink near what seemed to be a big brick kiln or furnace near the cotton gin. There was a lot of what we interpreted as dire poverty. We found Ropes depressing and disturbing. We would not, ourselves, want to live there under any circumstances whatsoever. But for some it might be paradise...


I'll have to add the pics later because I'm on my wife's computer and her AT&T DSL service is too slow to allow me to upload the pics. I no longer have AT&T for anything-- I've switched my cell service to Consumer Cellular and I'm saving $20 per month. AT&T was once a good company but they aren't anymore. All they want to do is hustle Uverse, and that does not even work as advertised. They treat their employees like dirt. It's time to forget AT&T.