Thursday, February 21, 2008

Hick Hysteria, or, "It's a gonna snow!!"

Let me preface this post by saying that I love Kentucky. I love (most of) the people in Kentucky. I have family history here, personal and family roots here, and choose to live here. I have a great and abiding love of and respect for Appalachian and Affrilachian culture. This is my home.

That said...for christsakes, ya stupid hicks, it's just snow!!! It's not the freakin' apocalypse, it's not a rain of toads, it most certainly isn't unexpected (seeing as how it's, oh, winter and this happens every year)...it's SNOW. And maybe even *gasp* ICE. It is not, I repeat, not necessarily a reason to freak out. It is not a reason to automatically cancel school, and it most certainly is not a reason to call in to work so my husband has to all of your stupid work on top of his!!! You people need to just chill out and learn to deal with the freakin' weather!

Henny-Penny would have had a good cluck at the stupid hysteria that hits this town when something frozen falls from the sky.

The ironic twist to all of this is that I'm from Florida and I deal with this shit better than 90% of the natives here. I don't give a frell about the crap coming down from above, but I swear to god if I have to spend another snow day locked inside with a stir-crazy 5 year old and 3 dogs who are too prissy to get their precious little feet wet I'm gonna snap.

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