Tag: memorial
We’re having the viewing on the tailgate at 2pm.
by schwim on Dec.30, 2009, under Humorous
Having moved years ago to an area rich with rednecks, I’ve had plenty of time to grow used to most of the odd regional customs. Some of them are even quite amusing(for instance, you can say anything about anyone as long as you append “God bless them” at the end; i.e. “That boy’s one stupid son of a bitch, God bless him.”). Others make you glad that you managed to climb further up the evolution ladder than the spot they are occupying (“I once overheard a man at a building supply store state “I’m going to go crazy if I don’t get out in the woods and kill something soon.”).
Some local customs still leave me wondering what in the Hell drives these people though. Case in point: Sharing the death of people close to you with whoever happens to be in the car behind yours. With the recent leaps in vinyl cutting technology, anyone can make stickers for their car now. This is great for those of us that would like to advertise our business. It’s not so great, however, if you spend a lot of your time in the south behind cars of people who have had a loved one die. I can appreciate that you mourn the loss of Bubba. This however doesn’t change the fact that I don’t have a fucking clue who he is. If I did know who he was, I wouldn’t need a vinyl tombstone on the car in front of me to trigger the mourning process. It’s almost like that game people play on forums; “ban the person above your post”, but with a lot less of a happy-factor. “Share the death of a person with the car behind you.”
