Breaking News in Gilbert (a brush with fame)

So I was at the library today studying for the MCATs and was a bit pressed for time and kind oftired of learning about the cell cycle, and so I opted for a quick lunch break in front of the library. While I was eating my yogurt, this dude came up to me and said "excuse me; I'm a writer for community speak-out section of the Arizona Tribune, and I was wondering if I could ask you a quick survey question." I had no desire to comply, but since I was sitting on a bench eating my yogurt, I couldn't very easily say "oh no, sorry I have to run..." or anything like that. So I said "ummm okay, but I don't really live here," hoping that would deter him. He seemed a little confused as to why I was hanging outside of the public library in Gilbert, Arizona on a Thursday afternoon if I didn't live there, so I qualified. I said "um, well I mean my family grew up here, but I've been going to school on the east coast for four years and am going to move to Boston soon and am really just here visiting, so my opinion isn't really pertinent. You should probably ask someone else." He followed up with "soooo, are you just here for the summer then?" "Yes," I said, certain that that would be grounds for disqualifying me from the survey. "Great! That counts," he retorted. I think he probably was kind of tired of standing in the sun and would have accepted any living being. I wasn't really bothered by the fact that my lunch/reading had been disrupted or anything like that, but I was more terrified by the thought of being one of the people in the community section of the Tribune with a random, unintelligible quote next to a dorky little snapshot of me. But, as I said, I was trapped, so I complied. "The question is," he said, "Gilbert has recently been named the fastest growing community in the United States. How do you feel about that?" Shoot. I pondered it like one would a Miss America pageant question with about 30 seconds of "umm.... well..... let's see..... that's a tough question to answer.... there are a lot of..... avenues......." I wanted to tell him that I hated that the 30,000-person town I moved into now has a population of 171,000, that everything that was farmland in Gilbert has turned into track homes and stripped it of culture, that there are traffic and Targets everywhere, that the temperatures had increased because of so much asphalt and engine exhaust, that I worry that Gilbert won't be able to sustain its size in the future because it seems to be attracting mostly houses and barely any commercial businesses. Instead I offered this pearl of wisdom: "Well, it's a little tougher to get around, but I get it makes sense that it would be this way because it is such a nice place to live." THIS JUST IN: MARLA STUMP OF GILBERT, ARIZONA THINKS THAT IT IS SUCH A NICE PLACE TO LIVE. I can just see the riveting section tomorrow. And that was it. The reporter snapped an awkward photo and left. And I finished my yogurt.