“They walked still further and the girl said, “Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?”“My uncle drove slowly on a highway once. He drove forty miles an hour and they jailed him for two days.”“Have you seen the two-hundred-foot-long billboards in the country beyond town? Did you know that once billboards were only twenty feet long? But cars started rushing by so quickly they had to stretch the advertising out so it would last.”34;My uncle says his grandfather remembered when children didn39;t kill each other.”