Farmer Wannabees

I always get a kick out of phonys and the Hollwood or Yuppie (including many new age so called "Country" performers) crowds who want to pretend to be country folk at various occassions.

For example, one can easily spot the Realtors or Politicians at our local county fair, they are the ones that show up wearing "brand new" denims or have a piece of straw in their mouth. You ever see those pickup truck commercials where someone is ALWAYS throwing a few bales of hay or straw into the back lol. Or the Yuppie who drives into the local Co Op in his brand new Diesel Dually $50, 000 truck to get a bale of straw for his kids dog house and he has towells or blankets in the bed so he dont scratch his shiny new truck. Rememebr when regular folk or middle class or low income persons went on Trail Rides?? When you go to the local State Park horse camp nowadays, they wont let you in the gate UNLESS you have a Diesel Dually all wheel drive truck and about a $30,000 aluminum horse trailer. If a local young redneck showed up in a rusty old Ford and a 2 horse bumper hitch trailer the rich snobs would insist he be thrown out lol. Remember when we as kids got a cane pole, dug our own worms and went fishing?? Nowadays its the Diesel Dually truck pulling a $30,000 Ranger Bass Boat and a tackle box packed with expensive lures ya gotta have to fish.

Oh well, thats progress I reckon, I just never had to pay for those things to have fun or feel good about myself or impress the neighbors I guess. HOWEVER its good for the economy cuz if people were like me the Country would surely go broke.

Ol John T (Old fashioned conservative fuddy duddy)

Pete/ME (Old fashioned radical liberal fuddy duddy)

an i couldnt agree with you more.
farmweld

Kris A NC

There's a little town on Rt52 in Illinois between Joliet and Kankakee called Wilton Center. Right at the curve is a hog farm, and in the hot summer, gotta admit will clear your sinuses and give you a runny nose. But never bothered me, and take a good whif when I go through the curve. Yep, that's a hog farm for sure. One day my boss decides is going to do a ride along with me to see what it is that I do exactly. He's a suit, and I often climb poles. So, just so happens we are headed down to Kankakee, right smack dab through Wilton Center on one of the hottest days of summer, and buddy the curve is coming up. I tell him to row down the window and get a real deep whif of fresh country air as we're clearing the barn and point blank down wind of the pens, and did he ever. Not long after, I pulled over so he could puke his guts out on the side of the road. Ha Ha Ha Ha, that son of a gun never road with me again. Brings a smile to my face everytime I remember it. Thanks.

Mark

Well, John, might be just in your perspective.

See, I used go camping in a beat up old car and a tent, but you drive a motorhome.....

:)

I do like the Southwest Airlines commercial where the guy on the 806 is driving down three rows of corn, pulling a green chopper which is chopping three more rows, and there is no wagon in the back. Apparently all this weedy corn stuff just popped up in rows and he had to get rid of it in a hurry!

Take care, John T

There have always been people who drove monthly payment Cadillacs home to rented dwellings. And those who thought a college education was "given" to someone who was fortunate (I seem to remember working pretty hard for mine both in study and jobs to pay for it...). And, there have always been wealthy people who drove an old car because it met their needs and didn't have to show off to anybody. Two guys wrote a book called "The Millionaire Next Door" and it is full of examples of outward show and inward dough.

Kind of like the woman who lights up a cigarette while she's drinking a beer in the parking lot of the PTA meeting and says "The problem with this generation of kids is drug abuse!".

Frank