TOWN
Problems. Huston, we have some serious problems.
Trying to get used to being surrounded by people while going to school in town is really a very different feeling. Sometimes, I forget that most of the time people don't really understand the differences that we are used to in how we live.
Problems
Namely, I need more room to park a truck and if you run into me in a store I will probably say excuse me.
If I come to the door in a robe with a gun, please don't scream and run away-and if you do could you leave my package before you go?
The list
Here are just a few of the problems one might face, if you are used to living an hour from the nearest road, and are now close enough to buy Starbucks. (Their coffee is all fru-fru...has anyone noticed that?)
This is what I'd love to tell all the town-folks who just don't seem to understand that we do not come from the same place or background.
- If you pull out in front of me and I am driving a pick-up or hauling a trailer I cannot stop on a dime. Also, your "plug-in" car makes no sense.
- When I smile and say good morning and look you in the eye, I am not going to blow the store up-I am simply being polite and am not scared of people.
- Your child is a brat. Spank them, give them some chores and responsibility or let me help you out. Your life will be easier, I promise.
- I am armed. If you try and follow me, myself-or some member of my family will probably help you with that force which is necessary to understand the errors of your ways.
- Yes I am wearing a hat and boots. No I am not with a circus.
- If you say "look at that weirdo" when I'm walking downtown in cowboy boots, I will most likely stop and stare at you or ask you to speak up. I'm shy like that.
- Don't offer me a "toke" on the street. I'm not afraid to hit you.
- I am blaring Ray Wylie Hubbard at the stoplight. If you try and overpower it with your rap "music" I will win.
- Pull your pants up. You look like an idiot.
- That is my mother, not my sister. Say something racy to her. I dare you.
- My dog likes to ride in the truck, he will not die of heat stroke and yes he bites. (The pit, not the pom)
- I say yes ma'am and no sir and it's not because I'm sucking up to you-I was taught respect by my parents.
- My pants are high-rise, deep wash Cowboy Honors. My hair is curled and I am wearing Chanel lipstick. No I don't look like everyone else, thats how I like it.
- I don't want a salad. I want a steak, potatoes and a beer. I'm dainty like that.
- I can fix this flat tire in 10 minutes, but I'm also a single girl alone on the side of the road-no men in town stop to ask if you need help-even cops...there is something odd about that.
- If I come to the door in a robe with a gun, please don't scream and run away-and if you do could you leave my package before you go?
- It is unhealthy to have this many people living this closely together in one place.
- There is a coyote that comes to the house in the backyard. When I shoot him, please don't freak out. He's eating your cats.
- I leave a lot with lots of guitars and cowboy hats. Please don't mistake that for being allowed for freely stare through your kitchen window weirdly at me. I will wave.
- I still don't know how to cross the street or understand crosswalks, please bear with me-it's scary.
- I'm still learning how to drive in town. *CRASH* Oops. Sorry.
- I will get this figured out. I promise, until then...I think another trip out of the city is needed in a big way-there is too much noise and too many people here.
Unfortunately I think this post might have come out as a little complaining in it's tone-and thats the last thing I wanted. However, it's a really funny situation when you're used to nothing and living with everything! I want to share all of the funny things that seem to be happening along the way of me learning how to live in town-stay tuned, attending college classes is coming next.
Oh boy.
I'm missing wide-open spaces right now, anyone else dealing with this?
I love you all, next post I promise will be all the positive things about town!
Merry Christmas, not happy holidays....MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Thank-you Vincenzo Paciulli for the picture!
xoxo
~Adrian
www.buckaroogirl.com
This made me laugh really hard, because I totally relate. My favorite is "If I come to the door in a robe with a gun, please don't scream and run away-and if you do could you leave my package before you go?" Winning. :D
ReplyDeleteHaha, I wondered how you girls were going to deal with that rat-race lifestyle permanently. When I first moved to Pendleton(which isn't that big) I had such a tough time dealing with street lights! I couldn't get used to them shining into my room! Lol
ReplyDeleteWell said, I strongly agree with most of them/dealing with them. I just moved to town ( a ranchy town of 5,000, but its still town).
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas to you too!
I hear you! We recently got evicted from our little cow farm - the landlord tilled up the pasture and rented it out to some farmers. The only place we could find was a 1 bedroom studio apartment above a barber shop downtown. It is taking some ADJUSTMENT - noise, streetlights, the constant smell of the cafe two doors down. Its a lot to take in. Hang in there girly, an education is worth it!
ReplyDeleteThis old lady can sure relate to all of this. Lived in the edge of a small town for 30 years and never did get used to it. Love where I am now, only complaint is that it is not far enough from town and folks keep buying small pieces of land and building more houses. They think we live on a huge ranch when I say it's a small place and they ask how small and I say 240 acres.
ReplyDeleteThis is why all of us non-city women don't enter the city. It's bad for our healthy, but what else are we ever suppose to do when trying to go to college? Thank you, Adrain, for making me laugh. :)
ReplyDeleteOh, Miss Adrian...how we can relate! When you have a husband who basically sleeps in his hat...just kidding, well, maybe....and someone in the city staring at you for holding the door for me is a favorite. They looked at me like I was going to rob them. And the lipstick and boots gets them every time...they can't figure out if you're trying to just be really on trend or why you choose to wear lipstick to the closest Walmart...which is our closest store and really a day out! Love it! Have a very Merry Christmas and blessed New Year!!
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