Small Town American on the 4th of July
We went to the Independence Day parade today in downtown Woodstock where I live. Its nice to be just a couple of minutes drive from downtown. Here are some thoughts:
- What age do you have to be to join the Shriner's? 50? Is it ok to join for the soul purpose of wanting to drive those cool little go-carts? "Yeah, yeah, helping the kids would be great and all but I really just want to drive those little cars. Where do I sign up for that?"
- Small town America: Where the Coroner gets his own car in the Independence Day parade. If we can't give the coroner h+is due, then the terrorists have won.
- Loved the Uncle Sam Unicycle guy, even if he did bust it when he tried to go over the railroad tracks.
- OK, a little note to the Sons of the Confederacy. For the sake of argument, I'll concede that your motives are simply about heritage and not about bigotry or any real regret that the South lost the war and allowed those uppity black folks to own land, never mind vote. But, is it to much to expect you to not have a tent where you hand out rebel flag stickers glorifying a group of people who REBELLED against the very nation whose birthday we are celebrating? Couldn't you do that on the Labor or Memorial day parades? Do you think they tried to give out those stickers when black kids came by? I'll admit I was too shocked to tell the otherwise pleasant old man dressed in Confederate guard that my kids aren't going to where the rebel flag so I let them have the stickers then I took then off and tossed them in the trash a couple of tents over. I'm not proud of how I handled that.
- I wonder if my fantasy football league could register for the parade. That'd be kind of cool. I mean how are we different than the twenty kids from the Karate school? Other than the fact that we are old, fat, inactive, not community oriented, and obscene in a borderline tasteless fashion?