A Mixed Marriage in Hazen

Last night a couple neighbors came over to share some of the plum medication the ex postmaster makes. We had a good time shooting the breeze and telling stories. At some point the old politician from up on the corner asked "Do you know what a mixed marriage in Mercer county is?". Everyone looked puzzled. Pat said "That is when someone on central time marries someone on mountain time". You have to live here to appreciate the problem. Lord Kadizzle and The Commander had a mixed marriage for years. All the industrial sites run on central time no matter where they are located. Hazen is on mountain time. For my entire career I worked on central time and lived in mountain time. The clock on my side of the bed was on central time, and the clock on the other side was on mountain time. This meant the time line ran right down the middle of the bed. In this area the way the line is placed has no rhyme or reason, and it is amazing how perturbed people can get about it. Believe it or not there are people who will not speak to each other because they have had arguments about the time zone. The strangest thing is having the time line be the river. This works fine where the river flows South, but it makes no sense where the river flows East. People from other states get very confused when they drive into mountain time in Mandan, and then over a hundred miles west they drive back into central time. It works very nicely for sailing. Since the time line is in the middle of the lake, you can change time at will. When someone says " I never drink before noon", Lord Kadizzle just sails across the time line and noon is there.