Southern Discomfort
As promised, I will now entertain you with riveting tales of my recent safari in an un-named Southern state. Actually, I’m just going to show you a couple pictures and make fun of the people who live there.
This is a place where “mullet” haircuts are plentiful, especially on the women-folk. As you can see from the picture to the right, I found a store at which you can not only have your hair cut in this style, but can even have it “fresh” and “smoked,” whatever that means.
Many of the locals believe that the outcome of the Civil War is still up in the air, and are waiting for the refs to review the slow-motion replay. Confederate team paraphenalia is readily available.
The question that always plagued me is why my grandparents - neither of whom is a Southerner or a redneck - settled there 40 years ago when it can only have been worse. Weirder still is the fact that nearly all my other relatives followed them.
Some of those relatives live in a really schwanky trailer park - sorry, “Retirement Village” - that has its own golf course. Actually, they live in a very nice manufactured home that I’m quite certain cost more than my little brick house, and one of their neighbors has a Hummer.
Mrs. Spoonfighter and I were very fortunate to catch their big Christmas parade. What fun!
Anyway. Now we’re back. Obviously we had a wonderful time.
December 18th, 2005 at 8:08 pm
You may know, but mullet is also a fish. We used as bait to catch bigger fish. I guess people eat it, too. Looks like you guys were in Florida; the golf carts gave it away.
1) Yeah. I know it’s a fish. That sign is actually sitting outside a seafood shop.
2) I can neither confirm nor deny that the location is or is not Florida.
December 19th, 2005 at 12:19 am
By “Civil War” you mean the War of Northern Agression, right?
North: 1, South: 0
December 20th, 2005 at 8:43 am
#1 reason why people headed South: Air Conditioning makes life more comfortable in an environment otherwise best described as Hellish (ask me sometime about Dave’s Texas Calendar)
#1 reason why people may start heading North again: Air Conditioning bills make bank accounts uncomfortable in an environment still described as hellish.
Ahhhhhh. Someone who knows. –SF