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Driving through town this past Thanksgiving weekend, I couldn't help but notice newspapers piling up on some driveways. I can appreciate people not wanting to bother stopping the paper while they are out of town for a few days, but what's up with their neighbors? They can't walk over, pick up the paper and toss it on the porch?

I know that the concept of neighborhood and community has changed as cities grow, people become more transient and technology allows us to stay inside. But, really, you don't even have to know your neighbor to move their paper to the porch and eliminate that "we're-not-home-and-the-neighbors-aren't-paying-attention-so-back-the-truck-up-and-help-yourself" look. Have we gotten to be such a faceless kind of place that that simple courtesy is neglected or, worse, not even considered?

Of course, I didn't stop and do it. They were outside my neighborhood, and someone might have confused me with a robber. Don't need to be shot before Christmas.