Someone would recognize me and drag me back where I came from.
I had been researching in a vault about 40 miles from my home that I visit maybe 10 times per year(the vault, not my house).?ÿ The County employee who has to push the magic button to allow visitors into her work space changed maybe a year ago.?ÿ I have spoken with this nice young lady several times, but briefly.?ÿ I had to look today at the fairly new name plate she has on her desk to even know what her first name was.?ÿ As I went to leave I made some comment that caught her attention.?ÿ She said, "What is your name?"?ÿ I told her and she said, "You don't live too far from where I grew up."?ÿ That's what got it started.
Her dad is a good ol' boy I've known for at least 30 years and who I had do some small engine work a few months back on a DR trimmer Mrs. Cow purchased several years ago.?ÿ One of her sisters is the Office Manager/Clerk for the school district for which I serve on the School Board.?ÿ Her only brother is a current client and if it hadn't rained all day I would have been getting his survey finished first thing this morning after putting him off for about two months already.
About 20 years ago when her dad was a Deputy he pulled over my wife for speeding.?ÿ No big deal, but a little bit more than what might have been ignored.?ÿ He walked up to the driver's window and asked to see her license and vehicle registration.?ÿ That's when I said, "Howdy, Roy.?ÿ How's it goin' today?"?ÿ He bent down and looked in the window to see me in the passenger seat. "Well, $hit.", he said.?ÿ Then he turned to my wife and told her not to worry about the speeding but to slow it down a little next time.?ÿ Then he said, "Ma'am, if you have to put up with HIM all the time, you have my sympathy."
Mr Cow, that cop was right. Putting up with you, and getting a ticket to boot would come under the heading "cruel and unusual punishment". 😉
?ÿMaybe we should send her a sympathy card??ÿ
Have you been to the crik yet this year? As we get older, we sometimes need a remind to take the lava soap and go to the crik.?ÿ
Please remember not to fish where the others are getting their yearly spring bath.?ÿ
Seriously, it's been wet all week. Crik is up down here.?ÿ
Nate
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A few years ago my wife and I went on a winery tour through North Georgia.?ÿ We stopped at one and were talking to the owner about his grapes and wine.?ÿ He said he grew all his own grapes except for the scuppernongs which he bought from a farm in South Georgia.?ÿ I told him I was from South Georgia myself.?ÿ He asked where??ÿ Just north of Albany.?ÿ Where abouts??ÿ Stocks Dairy Road.?ÿ Did you know Tony Bruner??ÿ He's my father.?ÿ We then exchanged names and I found out that we used to hunt and fish together and that he had dated my older sister.?ÿ No this is 200+ miles from home.?ÿ As we left my wife said, "You know somebody everywhere we go don't you?"?ÿ?ÿ
Andy
As I drove past a certain spot yesterday it stuck me that it was 65 at the time and had been over 70 when I drove past that same spot on February 3.?ÿ Plus it rained most of yesterday.?ÿ I definitely haven't been in crik water over a few inches deep yet.
Holy Cow, good buddy of mine, when all 50,000 of you and yer kinfolk decide to have a reunion, give me first crack at catering, I'll give ya a 20% kickback. ?????ÿ
I had been out of college for six years and was about to board a plane at the Newark, NJ airport to fly to Kansas City.?ÿ Casually took a look around at my fellow passengers waiting for boarding and saw the Dean of the College of Engineering at Kansas State University, along with his wife and daughter.?ÿ Then, he saw me.?ÿ We simultaneously called to each other by our first names and got up and shook hands.?ÿ He switched seats with another passenger so that we could sit next to each other on the flight.?ÿ Much of what we discussed involved my experiences that might be appropriate to have discussed in the typical senior class all engineering students took within their home department called Professional Practices.?ÿ Things such as starting at the bottom of the ladder in an unfamiliar location where all co-workers are older and more knowledgeable than you in general.?ÿ How you become a valued member of the team.?ÿ How you learn to deal with hiring and firing issues and the sudden loss of a key fellow employee.?ÿ Just a lot of things that aren't "technical" but that must be learned rapidly as one becomes part of the real world instead of merely a student.?ÿ He knew that I had worked directly with many engineers around the US and quite a few from around the world in those first few years.?ÿ He was asking for my experiences and experiences of the many others I had come to know who were going through similar learning experiences on the job.?ÿ I remember telling him about one graduate from University of California, Davis who had no permanent address for over a year.?ÿ He had everything official switched over to his parents' address somewhere in Northern California while he lived in hotels/motels/local accommodations across the country as his employer kept him moving from location to location to work with their numerous facilities.?ÿ He owned no vehicle.?ÿ The company covered all auto rentals and travel expenses and lodging.?ÿ This, of course, was long before cell phones so he had numerous phone numbers for others to use to attempt to call him, whether for business or social needs.
Couple of years ago, surveyor buddy (grew up in CA) and I went on a road trip through the remote northeast corner of CA, through southeastern OR, northern NV, and ID.?ÿ Went through this little 2 block town of Fort Bidwell a few miles south of the northeast corner of CA and while driving through, he said hang a left into the Post Office right there for a minute - I saw someone walk in I might know.?ÿ He went in and 20 minutes later came out telling me that the Postmaster of this little town grew up with him and he hadn't seen her in over 40 years.?ÿ I just shook my head...
I love this kind of story.?ÿ It shows a sense of community still exists in this crazy world.
There may be hope for us yet.
My dad taught at a small high school in California for almost 35 years. He knew everyone, or they knew him. That was true for several neighboring counties too, where his former students had ended up not far from home. My mom used to say that she never had to worry about him cheating on her because she would find out immediately. Wasn't a place he could go without being recognized.
Yeah most places would send you back ????ÿ
If you do depart, here's your 80's theme song to sing while you go:
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Stay away from traditional Oklahoma and Texas, then.?ÿ BTW, the video appears to have been shot on location in Shelbyville, Tennessee with a population of more than 20,000.?ÿ I would need to go about 70 miles before entering a town bigger than that.
I've been in OK and TX and known people from there and they didn't sound like that.
It's the making two different vowels out of one that stands out the most in songs.
A young lad in my neighborhood is the son of the current Sheriff.?ÿ His number one babysitter when he was a pre-schooler was the former Sheriff but Sheriff at that time.?ÿ The former Sheriff is named Jim.?ÿ The lad still pronounces it as Ji-um.