September 08, 2004
Quote Wednesday and Thoughts on the South
A lot of death happens in here.
-Mike (As he fed a lizard in his pet store).
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And now for some thoughts on the south. I find the above picture highly amusing. I snapped this shot while up in Middle Tennessee a couple of weeks ago. And basically it captures all preconceived thoughts about what southerners are. You know, cars on blocks in the yard, a few teeth missing, and going down to the local trailer beauty salon.
I've often felt they should teach Appalachian Design in Art/Architecture School. You know, explain how to use old bathroom appliances in the yard for potting plants (toilets, bathtubs). Explain how many cars are appropriate for the yard. The proper use of slate and dirt in a yard. How to make your house look like a mobile home. How to expand your single wide, to a double wide or triple wide with more single wides. The importance of a satellite dish your yard. Dogs, what kind, how many, what length of chain. Smells the required finishing touch to your Appalachian home. Rebel Flags, are they for you? Making good use of your children’s toys as yard decor.
Don't get me wrong, not all houses are like that in the south. (In fact the majority are not). But there is a certain commonality among this certain group of people. It is high time these interesting traits were studied, and understood. Anyone up for a Doctoral Thesis?
Posted by itzjerm at September 8, 2004 11:23 PMI always thought the south looked just like that picture before I moved down here...I was a little depressed when I got here and I figured out that the homes in that picture where more prevalent in my part of California than they were in Alabama. I came to Auburn and quickly learned that there are more preppy people and SUVs per capita there than anywhere else in the world. All this leads me to my quote, which was told by the girl at the sunglass store when I first got to Auburn 5 years ago. "...this is not a bad place, but it looks like someone puked the J. Crew catolog over everyone..."
Mildly inappropriate, but it definately changed my stereotype of Alabama.
wow, so much like that shot of the porto john hanging out the back of a trunk that i took. the only thing that could make this better would be if it had a cross on the roof and was a salon/church.
you gotta love the south, for bringing down the demographic that is.
Posted by: case at September 8, 2004 10:03 AM"Dude, we should've hung out when we were younger."
-Javann to Jeremy
"Just shut up and drink your sunkist, little man."
-Javann to Tremaine
"I got 99 problems, but drinking ain't one!"
-Skyler
"I'm Rick Dee's, I play the hits!"
-Jared
"I did my homework, on like Friday."
-Rex
"I call it: Comfortable Tea"
-Javann
"I don't think we could of hung out when we were younger, cause you would have been in the 5th or 6th grade when I was a senior in high school, and it would have just been wrong"
Jeremy to Javann
Posted by: Jeremy at September 8, 2004 11:09 AMi think this salon trailer is quite practical . think how economical it is. i mean her overhead is practically nothing. she probably has free well water,and a $20 electric bill just to run the curling irons and blowdryers. she probably makes 98% profit on all her customers.this type of southerner could be considered a superior race, but that's just the redneck genes that my dad gave me talking.and for the record my husband jeremy loves the south. i even have him saying buggies instead of shopping carts.
Posted by: kim at September 8, 2004 11:24 AMAvoiding work, so here's another comment...
Greatest "southern business" I have ever encountered...
Just outside of the gate at Columbus AFB in Mississippi is a trailer park. In the trailer park is a restaurant, which is made up of three dilapidated single wide trailers welded together in the shape of an S. (Wish I had picture, but y'all are just going to have to use your imagination).
The restaurant serves chinese food and country food. Everyone working in there was either asian or they looked like Billy Bob (even the waitresses)--which was very odd, almost surreal. Even scarier than the building, or the people working in it, was that the food was incredibly good. So if you are ever in that neck of the woods and you can't decide wheather you want collard greens or kung pao, you can go there and have both.
Once in service I came across a trailer, that had it's end cut off and placed within another trailer, and these two trailers had dry wall nailed all around them, and that fake wood type wallpaper pasted on the drywall. A makeshift log cabin. It was a sight to behold, southern engineering at it's best.
Posted by: Jon Houser at September 8, 2004 03:32 PMGotta love the "flower beds". An old metal head and footboard w/ flowers between. Right next to the "potty planter" old toilet w/ weeds growing out of it.
Posted by: mel at September 8, 2004 04:13 PMSo I decided I'd think of something positive to say about the trailer. . .
Man, it makes me laugh everytime I drive by one. And without trailers, tornados might actually damage real houses.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. . .
See? Positive.
Has nobody thought of what type of hair cuts come out of this place? My guess is something like mullets and beehives... Anything tacky from the eighties... Ick.. But, I'll have to agree with the cheap rent. Whoever owns it has to make a killing on what customers that are crazy enough to go there! :)
Posted by: Girl Courtney at September 9, 2004 12:42 PMoh oh... and rat tails... i bet they could make a mean rat tail.
Posted by: itzjerm at September 9, 2004 12:52 PM