The Bottoms

Section of a town wherein the inhabitants must either walk or drive up high hills in their beat-up, thirty year old cars to get to the store. The cars usually won't make it, and that is just as well since the owners tend not to have gas money anyway. Usually situated on a flood plain below the rest of the town, out of sight of the highway. The homes are mainly hollowed out, falling down houses or trailers, patched up shacks built from scraps off other's homes. There may be big above ground swimming pools in the front yards, along with all the toys, waste paper, beer bottles, used condoms, broken music cds, and other rubbish. Concurrently inhabited by scrawny German Shepherd dogs that look not to be fed very well, cats, and an odd assortment of stray chickens. The inhabitants tend to rely upon public transportation as a way to go into a nearby city to visit their doctors for the many ailments they have. They tend to express self-centered ideas about life, and show a lack of imagination. Those who have imagination use it to dream up ways to make money selling meth or other drugs, or how to stay out of or keep others out of jail. News is what comes on the telly sometimes in between fights, baby showers, drug deals, sucking out the water from the latest flood, and porn. Not a good place to go to unless you're going to tear it down and rebuild it.