Do you like Epping? Don't know. I've never Epped.

Facebook seems to be catching on.

And there is more going on in Zuckerbergville than eclipse photos, pictures of cute kittens, and memes that go to bizarre lengths to prove some ephemeral point.

For instance, let's say you're swimming in your swimming pool and the ladder breaks.

Now, let's say you can't get out of the pool without the ladder.


This is Leslie Kahn, 61, of Epping, New Hampshire.  Her fun in the pool on August 11 went down the drain quickly when she couldn't get out of that pool.  For three hours, she tried to find a way.

Don't you hate it when you've been in the water for that long and you get the prune fingers?

Anyway, she didn't have her cellphone (it was in the house) and she couldn't hoist herself up over the edge...but she had her iPad out there on a chair, and she had the pool pole, so she used the latter (because she had a broken ladder) to drag the chair over, and she typed out a message on her town's chat page.

It's called Epping Squawks, and she typed "911!" and described the jam she was in, and in short order, neighbors came over and got tools and fixed the ladder and all was well again.

Ms Kahn is a breast cancer survivor, and told the local TV news that there are times to be the helper and there are times to ask for help.   

"You get through whatever life throws at you, and you ask for help. And be prepared to help others, and that's the way life is supposed to work," she added.

You know how we always hear that people in New England make a lot of sense?  It looks like it's true!