Unfortunately, some of the funnier stories have to do with the underbelly of life on the road and I've been admonished not to tell those, as you may recall from a few months ago when you opened that can of worms on Crossroads. And I guess it was good that I tested the waters on that subject before I finalized anything. But that did cut my book in half by eliminating some of the true behind-the-scenes activities. Apparently it's important to some to continue perpetrating that clean-cut college boy image that was the facade.
The book that the frank referenced is a fiction that I've been toying with since my HOA experience. It's kind of a Stephen King horror-science fiction view of a homeowners association gone amok. Some of it comes from real-life experience, but I'm taking it to the spooky supernatural extreme. There's a "coven" of witches who enforce the "covenants" with torture and death. Several people in the neighborhood mysteriously disappear as the hero tries to sort out what's happening.
In real life, the HOA horror has ruined so many lives around the country. People have actually lost their homes over an oil drip on their driveway. Someday somebody may write a book about how the mob infiltrated some HOAs in Las Vegas, resulting in murder and suicide. There's a bit of that story in Ward Lucas's book, "Neighbors At War", but I think that matter is still playing out there. I advise anyone who is considering buying a home to avoid a neighbohood with enforceable covenants. HOAs are run to a large extent by incompetent homeowners with no business experience who get elected to a Board of Directors and suddenly discover the power they have over their neighbors. As they exercise that power, people suffer. Not a good way to live.
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