Does Harford have Buddha nature? No, it has a mercurial nature.

Awhile back, 10 or 20 years ago, a local Chinese restaurant put a statue of the Laughing Buddha in its front yard. This didn't sit well with some of the local church-goers. They felt it was an affront to Christianity.
It didn't seem to matter to them that their protest was an affront to the Constitution, and even worse, an insult to American Capitalism.
But they got away with it; the statue moved up the road to Cecil County where it sits today, no doubt converting many a wayward youth into the slaves of some devil-religion.
Oddly, when the "porno-post office" (Harford's most joked about phenomenon since the Tuckaway Motel) came along, it was allowed to remain.
Why didn't they get rid of the side-by-side post office/adult video store like they got rid of the Buddha statue? My theory: they don't like Chinese food, but they do enjoy the convenience of one stop shopping. Curiouser and curiouser.

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