Okay, I was wrong. I admit it. I take back everything I wrote yesterday about Georgia not being populated by uneducated redneck freaks.
My change of heart came this morning at 8:11 am. I’m exiting at Panola Road because I-20 is closed - AGAIN - this time with an overturned vehicle crash at Moreland. I’m behind a white Chevrolet pickup truck which is not beat up and trashed but nice and new-looking...except for the tailgate, which has been spray-painted with a message. To get the entire visual, you need to understand that this isn’t stenciled on or nicely lettered and no effort has been made to get the letters straight or even - it’s black, spray-painted graffiti-style letters. On the top line it says “This Country Boy” and on the bottom it says “Will Survive”. In between, one on each end of “Chevrolet”, there is a red spray-painted, crooked and uneven rectangle with an “X” in the center, which I suppose was intended to approximate, however poorly, the Confederate battle emblem. They didn’t do a good job getting the corners of the rectangle to meet, so someone had sprayed extra red and smeared it manually to smooth out the design. Oh. My. Gods.
And Goddesses.
And Lesser-known Deities.
It rather begs the question, “HOW has this country boy managed to survive?” because quite frankly, if I were a bigger and stronger chick, I’d beat the crap out of him just on G.P. Other than that, I don’t know where to go with this. I mean - what can I write?
In hopes of injecting some humour, here’s part of an e-mail exchange on the subject of reality television:
Me: I'm waiting for "The Orkin Man": the reality show where we watch him try to score with bored housewives and every week, he just sprays for bugs instead.
Alan: I’d laugh, but that's too true to be funny.
MONTOYA DELENDA EST!
My change of heart came this morning at 8:11 am. I’m exiting at Panola Road because I-20 is closed - AGAIN - this time with an overturned vehicle crash at Moreland. I’m behind a white Chevrolet pickup truck which is not beat up and trashed but nice and new-looking...except for the tailgate, which has been spray-painted with a message. To get the entire visual, you need to understand that this isn’t stenciled on or nicely lettered and no effort has been made to get the letters straight or even - it’s black, spray-painted graffiti-style letters. On the top line it says “This Country Boy” and on the bottom it says “Will Survive”. In between, one on each end of “Chevrolet”, there is a red spray-painted, crooked and uneven rectangle with an “X” in the center, which I suppose was intended to approximate, however poorly, the Confederate battle emblem. They didn’t do a good job getting the corners of the rectangle to meet, so someone had sprayed extra red and smeared it manually to smooth out the design. Oh. My. Gods.
And Goddesses.
And Lesser-known Deities.
It rather begs the question, “HOW has this country boy managed to survive?” because quite frankly, if I were a bigger and stronger chick, I’d beat the crap out of him just on G.P. Other than that, I don’t know where to go with this. I mean - what can I write?
In hopes of injecting some humour, here’s part of an e-mail exchange on the subject of reality television:
Me: I'm waiting for "The Orkin Man": the reality show where we watch him try to score with bored housewives and every week, he just sprays for bugs instead.
Alan: I’d laugh, but that's too true to be funny.
MONTOYA DELENDA EST!
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