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Old 04-05-2006, 05:05 PM   #41
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I think I'll be bringing Chrissy to the Moraine View rally ...
So, I guess there will be no large, unwrapped Airstreams from Illinois in my driveway anytime soon...
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Old 04-05-2006, 05:06 PM   #42
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OK, also, I have to tell a short story about Neighbor to the North ... Tommy, whose wife is Edna. Shortly after I moved in, I ran out of dry firewood & asked Edna whether I could use some of theirs until I can get a new load in (I admit, bad move to start mooching off the neighbors first thing but hell, it's just wood) ... she said sure & gave me some astoundingly complicated instructions about which end of the stack I could use & not the small stuff, etc. etc. ...

Sure sign that the firewood is a complicated issue so stay away, right?

No, because remember I've been dumb since I was 37. So for about a week, I go over & get an armload every evening until one fateful Sunday. I get some wood & am putting it in the wood stove, door still propped open, and next thing I know, Tom & his daughter have burst INTO MY HOME screaming for me to put back all the firewood I "stole."

I was totally confused & shaken up. Got a truckload of wood, stacked the whole damn thing in their yard & have steered very clear of them since. Noticed, though, that they got a puppy. Dying to go pet the puppy. So, today, emboldened by the hooch & happiness at Chrissy's, I see Tom motoring back from a fishing trip with the pup so I saunter over & say "Hey Tom, new dog, eh" like nothing ever happened between us. And he's obviously pleased that I took that step & even apologizes for being a jerk earlier. So we're talking & neighbor other side of him named Charlene comes by to chat with her dog & then along comes Missy, who lives OTHER side of Charlene (An earlier note about her from Charlene: "Missy lives with Lori and they're 'together' but they're nice") ... so suddenly I remember to tell Tom that one of the guys who sponsored my b'friend to join the local boat club two weeks ago, a nice guy named Larry, turned out to be Tom's daughter's father-in-law. "Oh, he's in a bad way," Charlene said. "Huh?" I said. "Yeah, they had to cut off his leg today," she said.

Clearly I was the only one in the group not up on the river gossip. Turns out Larry, the father-in-law, had a long day last Sunday at the boat club, which mainly exists to dole out alcohol, and somehow dropped a cigarette while driving home AND BLEW UP HIS CAR & THE CAR IN FRONT OF HIM and is in the hospital in a coma with a leg cut off.

Where's Chrissy? I need a drink.
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Old 04-05-2006, 05:08 PM   #43
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After spending forty-seven years as an active pastor in six different communities, from very small (300 population) to medium sized (greater Boise is upwards of 400,000) I’ve met just about every kind of people you can name. I have some great memories, both good and bad, of some of those redneck types who have been my friends.

Examples range from the eight-year-old western Colorado boy who played cops and robbers after school with the neighbor kid—with real guns, a real tragic, near fatal occurrence. Then there was Elmer and Hazel. They were an uneducated (she had only completed sixth grade) couple who worked in an Army Ammo plant. They came into my office one day to hand me a paper bag well filled with U.S. Savings bonds and told me to use them to help the young pastor of a new Hispanic church start his education. It was just the start he needed and he earned a Master’s degree, went on to become an Air Force chaplain and now is an Air Force colonel with more than 20 years of service.

When a person takes time to get to know these folk they can be salt of the earth! Actually, they’re a lot like the rest of society without the veneer. Some are untrustworthy and downright scary while others are very loving and compassionate people who would give you anything they have and spend whatever time and effort is needed to help you when they find out you have a need. With many of them what you see is what you get. They don’t put on to many airs!

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Old 04-05-2006, 05:10 PM   #44
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OK, here's options for you:
1. Bake her a chocolate cake with x-lax frosting. This will keep her out of your hair long enough to load the u-haul
2. Don't look back.
3. Bring pontoon boat and silver fleet to Florida.
4. Move very far south to Naples area.
5. Lay in large stock of Absolut

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Old 04-05-2006, 05:12 PM   #45
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Except, Marie, that I DID live in Florida ....

The word "Okeechobee" mean anything to you?
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Except, Marie, that I DID live in Florida ....

The word "Okeechobee" mean anything to you?
We were camping last weekend near Clewiston...
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Old 04-05-2006, 05:17 PM   #47
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Ok,
Are you attracted to the redneck lifestyle or what? Of course Okechobee is now mostly, well you have to speak spanish. There are nice parts in Cape Coral, but the gestappo drives around all day looking for airstreams so they can punish the owners.

uhmmmmm, bake Chrissy a cake and the other neighbors also.

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Old 04-05-2006, 05:21 PM   #48
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Actually, I grew up in redneck areas, and it is true that they can be some of the nicest people. Most are happy with their lifestyle, and see the rest of us as the odd balls. Chrissy could wind up learning from you, and could become a good friend and with the right bottle of absolut, you just might have fun!!!!!

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Old 04-05-2006, 05:40 PM   #49
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...and with the right bottle of absolut, you just might have fun!!!!!

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Being an elitist, Theresa would have to go with Chopin Vodka, not Absolut!

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Looks to me like you found a place to fit in outside the forums kid.
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Old 04-05-2006, 07:16 PM   #51
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(I begged off in lieu of an MGD.)
What's a "MGD"?
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Old 04-05-2006, 07:20 PM   #52
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I think it's Miller Genuine Draft.
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Old 04-05-2006, 07:52 PM   #53
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summer??? Was it you that bought the cute spam-can trailer this last year? I might be thinking of somebody else hyar in the Midwest ....
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yeah, MGD .... she said "whattaya want? i got everything."

but that didn't include guinness.

and it was flamingo-kid who bought that little corrugated-looking trailer. i wonder how she likes it.
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Me gots no problem with redneck neighbors -- picture taken off my deck yesterday. And yes, covenants restrict me from storing my trailers on my lot. With the age of the old basswoods that has probably saved me more than once. The water is about at max of spring runoff augmented by rains 10-12 days ago. This same pair of geese successfully raised a brood in the same nest last year.
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Actually, I grew up in redneck areas, and it is true that they can be some of the nicest people.
Last weekend I was talking to a friend who used to live in a redneck ghetto part of town, and she said those were the best neighbors she ever had. They'd always invite you over for a beer, they didn't work so they were home watching the neighborhood all day, and if they wanted to rob someone it sure wouldn't be in their own neghborhood, because they knew nobody there had anything good

Glad you got to meet your neighbor and got off on the right foot
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Well, how lucky could i possibly be?
Here I am, an Airstream millionaire living next to a millionaire still owner (oh wait, no, that's not quite accurate---a friend with a small plane flies her down to Kentucky when she's out of hooch).
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This thread is so hilarious...trailers and rednecks. Heck yeah!
Summerkid whey the heck aren't you blogging about your little slice of hell?
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This thread is so hilarious...trailers and rednecks. Heck yeah!
Summerkid whey the heck aren't you blogging about your little slice of hell?
Hell yeah!

http://www.hit-country-music-lyrics....an-lyrics.html

You can go to iTunes and hear a clip of it (or buy it for .99) by typing redneck woman...the artist is Gretchen Wilson.
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Yep, better build a fence ASAP, and, hope this nut case doesn't get into Meth, she doesn't have enough junk in the front yard,yet, to qualify as a tweeker house, good luck, Jim
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