I REALLY don’t like my hometown. It’s evil. I feel it everytime I go there. It’s not outwardly, obviously evil like a Stephen King novel, but evil in a “morally wrong and no one cares or sees any problem with it” kind of way. That’s a whole different post/tyrade.
Given that the town is also a hicktown obsessed with death, it has a lot of things to make fun of. We were staying in a hotel for Christmas & while channel surfing all 40-some channels and I ran across the community channel (12, if you’re curious) PowerPoint presentation. I wish I already had the camcorder we ordered for Christmas.
The first slide I saw was for the PI Sportsman’s Club annual dinner meeting – BYOB. Yes, BYOB. I had to go through the whole set of slides again to make sure I saw it right. Then there were two funeral notices (one for the catholic church and one for the lutheran church). Then there was a slide reminding you that ORV’s, ATV’s and snowmobiles were not allowed on city streets, right of ways, or trails.
As a side note, my brother claimed to be the cause of that one by riding a 4-wheeler from my dad’s house, about 5 miles out of town, to my mom’s, who lives right downtown. Not only did he do that, but apparently he drove right down main street instead of along the lake shore on the way there. He’s my dad’s son alright…
The last slide that caused me to lose it was the reminder to not park on city streets for snowplowing. The content wasn’t funny, but the clip art was a 1977 Monte Carlo. For those of you who can’t count, that’s a 29 year old car and only 2 exist in the whole town –one of those being my mom’s.
Now I understand that none of these slides alone are that funny, but if you knew my hometown and added them all up together… well, let’s just say they paint a pretty accurate picture of the place.