OVERHEARD
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Edited by Mary McNamara
Just when you thought it was safe to visit the United Republics of the Westside. . . “I don’t understand why there was so much fuss over it,” one Santa Monican was heard to say of the June 28 earthquake that registered 5.8 on the Richter scale, left two people dead and more than 100 injured and wreaked $42 million dollars’ worth of damage, mostly in Pasadena. “I mean, all it did was rattle a few dishes, and it’s on TV for practically half a day.”
So close, so close--and yet so far.
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