Amy inspired this post today. If you don't regularly read her blog, you should. You should also buy her soap. Lots and lots of soap. Pink sugar is my personal favorite, but I'm loving the Awesome Almond, too. Nice stuff. Lasts three times as long as a commercial bar of soap, and soooo nice to my old person skin.
I was raised in the neighborhood of Butthump, Egypt aka Redneck, Oregon.
But we didn't stay there all the time, we did get out some. Trips East to Colorado and other places kept us from getting too JimJoeBilly-Bobbish.
However. Many of the kids who grew up in the same town had never even been out of the county. We took a class trip in the 8th grade, and came to the 'Big City'.(Portland) A good 75% of the class spent our entire shopping time at Lloyd Center (then Oregon's only shopping mall) riding up and down the escalators and using the elevators because they'd never seen one before. Quite a few of them got back on the bus without having purchased a single thing!
About 15 years ago, that same town got its first elevator. The schools scheduled field trips downtown to the bank so the kids could ride the elevator. I'm seriously not kidding here.
And when traffic got a little scary, a left hand turn lane was put into the area in front of the ONE local grocery store. The school district had to take out a full page ad in the local newspaper to explain that using the center turn lane to PASS THE SCHOOL BUS was illegal!
This is why Cletus cracks me up so much, I think. I thought I had escaped all that by living in the city. Of ALL the places in the universe that he could have chosen to settle, he ended up right across the street from me! I wonder if he's been to Lloyd Center.
LOLOL - I love the field trip to the mall. Makes me feel better about my own JimBob.
ReplyDeleteHi Ami, I think I've been here before. Good stuff.
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