Why I will allways be a city boy at heart.
Allow me to rant for a moment So I was at work yesterdayI work at a coffee bar in Stanton DE (feel free to plug me for free coffee with some its a hobby) Now for those of you that are not terribly familiar with the geographic lay out of DE it has a canal that splits the state roughly in half. Now as you might be guessing that means we have a northern half and a southern half. Well I am in the NORTHERN half working and making coffee. I am happy in my little liberal world where Bush cant possibly be re-elected and Michael Moore is a patriot when it happens. You see we have a radio in the caf the we play... you guessed it CDs and the radio. Well a country type song comes on the radio... then a couple I am waiting on makes a comment that its a good song. Now the girl I am working with looks at them and says. (Insert general statement of agreement) Now me NOT wanting to lie cause I rarely do unless I feel like playing with the customers. I say. Beats me, I dont like country. Now this couple looks like I just whipped out their family bible and set it on fire. The wife (I guess) in shocked terror asks me. How can you live in DE and not like country music? Then I realize what the male of this crack dynamic duo said a minute ago... and it all makes sense. He said when I rang him up and I quote. I thought there would be sales tax up here down in DE we dont have it. YES! Thats right! This pair of rocket scientists was from SOUTHERN DE. Now not only that but they were from a section so far south they thought they were in JN or PA. mind you that either of these states is at least 30 minutes from where I work. Hell Philly is like 65 miles. So I suppress the urge to grab them and thin out the gene pool, and instead say. (After blinking several times and staring at them) I am from Chicago originally you knowa city I am a city boy. Now I get the fun of watching them twitch several times. They scamper off looking over their shoulders at me like I am some rare white tiger. While I go to get ready to go home well actually to have a beer that was just too weird.
I still hate country music.
Allow me to rant for a moment So I was at work yesterdayI work at a coffee bar in Stanton DE (feel free to plug me for free coffee with some its a hobby) Now for those of you that are not terribly familiar with the geographic lay out of DE it has a canal that splits the state roughly in half. Now as you might be guessing that means we have a northern half and a southern half. Well I am in the NORTHERN half working and making coffee. I am happy in my little liberal world where Bush cant possibly be re-elected and Michael Moore is a patriot when it happens. You see we have a radio in the caf the we play... you guessed it CDs and the radio. Well a country type song comes on the radio... then a couple I am waiting on makes a comment that its a good song. Now the girl I am working with looks at them and says. (Insert general statement of agreement) Now me NOT wanting to lie cause I rarely do unless I feel like playing with the customers. I say. Beats me, I dont like country. Now this couple looks like I just whipped out their family bible and set it on fire. The wife (I guess) in shocked terror asks me. How can you live in DE and not like country music? Then I realize what the male of this crack dynamic duo said a minute ago... and it all makes sense. He said when I rang him up and I quote. I thought there would be sales tax up here down in DE we dont have it. YES! Thats right! This pair of rocket scientists was from SOUTHERN DE. Now not only that but they were from a section so far south they thought they were in JN or PA. mind you that either of these states is at least 30 minutes from where I work. Hell Philly is like 65 miles. So I suppress the urge to grab them and thin out the gene pool, and instead say. (After blinking several times and staring at them) I am from Chicago originally you knowa city I am a city boy. Now I get the fun of watching them twitch several times. They scamper off looking over their shoulders at me like I am some rare white tiger. While I go to get ready to go home well actually to have a beer that was just too weird.
I still hate country music.
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poem:
aww, thanks a lot sweet heart 
godsmoker:
Heh, stupid people drive me nuts. The statement about DE being cut in half is true and false at the same time. "How", do you ask? Goegraphically, false, because the land mass south of the canal is much greater than the northern part. True, because everything north of the canal is almost like it's a different state and the population density probably equals that of slower-lower DE. Sorry to dork up your comments! 