The latest installment of "Things I Have to Write Down So I'll Know I Didn't Just Imagine Them"

[kellinator]

There's something about my parents that I realized this weekend that is greatly disturbing me...

They seem to have gone even more redneck.

ariedana, dawneywawney, tenn_crichton, y'all can just all sit down. I've got you beat in the Redneck Olympics. I could offer many examples as to why, but for now I'll just leave you with the best one...

My parents now have a gazebo in the yard.

You know what the roof of the gazebo is? An overturned satellite dish.

When I pointed out to my mom that this was pretty damn redneck, she got really defensive and started insisting that "everyone up the creek has one!!"

Next time I go home, I am so taking pictures. This has to be seen to be believed.

Comments

[fanagle.livejournal.com]

I... I... I... holy crap I can't come up with anything.

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

It's okay, I can't really either.

[leahpet.livejournal.com]

My Grandparents, in Pulaski of course, had a projection screen tv that they'd gotten from a house gutted by fire and put a sheet on it so you could almost watch something if the lights were out...I understand your pain, my dear.

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

I think in a lot of ways you really have to be from there in order to truly understand...

[leahpet.livejournal.com]

I try not to visit there much anymore. No need for more people to die.

[spiritchaser1.livejournal.com]

I'm very sorry for giggle so hard at this, but that is the funniest thing I have heard all day.

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Oh, I totally put it up there to provide giggles. Now if I could just find some way to turn this shit into a book...

[canela.livejournal.com]

Now that even tops the weirdos in my trailer park....

[maida-mac.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Oh my. The sad thing is how well I can relate. :-/

[vanguardian.livejournal.com]

Umm... wouldn't the appropriate comeback to the "everyone up the creek has one!!" be to ask whether or not they had any paddles?

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Owwwwwwwwww....

[tenn-crichton.livejournal.com]

One does not have a reply for this. ... ... ... Okay, I'll concede defeat for now, but the games aren't over until the toothless waffle house waitress says it is.

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

You know what the funny thing is? You're the one who wants to win the Redneck Olympics. Me, I'm happy if I can just mine this stuff for my future writing career.

[weaktwos.livejournal.com]

Well shoot-fire! Parkay up some fresh road kill and toss it on the grill! This is cause for celebratin'!

That creek wasn't named "shit creek", was it?

I really have no way to trump your redneck tale. As close as I come is watching all my family eat rocky mountain oysters at my cousin's wedding. She wore cowboy boots with her dress. The rest can only either be summoned by hypnosis or just doesn't exist.

[azurelunatic]

Dear me. Innovative, though...

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

My boss praised their recycling prowess. I think my boss is incapable of mocking anyone.

[azurelunatic]

Thing is, I was thinking how that was a really good use to put that to, and how normal ...

... but then, I'm Alaskan. And we do that kind of stuff. And it's classy ... for Alaska.

[azurelunatic]

...but then, also, it is covered in snow from October to May.

[vill.livejournal.com]

*boggle*

[pinkeffigy.livejournal.com]

If it helps, my aunt and uncle are working on making their old black large dish (the mesh type) a very large basket planter in their back yard. They are going to mount it on a pole. Maybe line it with Sphagna moss.

Maybe Matthews, GA can send a team to these Redneck Olympics?

[purpig.livejournal.com]

hahahahaha

please take pictures!! :)

[snowelf.livejournal.com]

*shakes head* Incredible.