On Main St. in Carrboro, there is an apparently vacant shop with a printed out paper sign in the window that says "SMOKE SHOP" in some fancy Photoshop word art. I stand beside this suspicious place while I wait for the bus after getting groceries a few times a week.

Today, there was a new sign in the front window, and a small, Charlie Brown-style tree decorated with approximately four tiny lights at the very top. The sign said,

MAYORS AWARD
FOR BEST CHRSITMAS [sic] DECORATIONS BY A CARRBORO BUSINESS
IS PRESENTED TO

THE SMOKE SHOP

BERT (recipient)
BEST IN TREES (category)
(signed by "the mayor")

Carrboro is the best town in the United States, and this is proof. I love living here.