Been Down So Goddamned Long...

Ya know, for a state that prides itself on its hospitality, there sure are a lot of assholes here...

I totally got birded by a seventy two year old grandmother today. Perhaps it is just the fact that I've never personally witnessed a seventy two year old grandmother giving anyone the finger, let alone myself, but I admit that I was quite unsettled.

You picture your sweet ol' granny. Now picture her scrunching her face in a look of utter vicious contempt as her gnarled middle finger slowly raises to its zenith.

Lovely picture, eh?

All I knew was that someone's Meemaw needed a time out. The very idea, Grandma flipping the bird at someone. Being vulgar is a pastime for young people, not the sport of our Elders, right?

Then again, vulgarity seems to crowd itself around major thoroughfares in Austin. I swear, this town is becoming more and more like that cess pool Houston every day. Half the asshole drivers in this town have one hand typically on the horn while the other is outstretched flying the flag of the Highway Badass. It's rather odd because Austin is one of those towns that is besieged by those of a more hippie laid back lifestyle, so it's damned weird to see a "peace and love" granola eater blaring his or her horn and yelling "get out of the way, you @#%$@#$^%!"

As a rule, I generally abstain from such displays of fury. There really isn't a point to getting pissed off for one, and two, you never know if that middle finger is loaded or not.

Nor do you know where that middle finger has been... Frightening thought, neh?