by sarida » Thu Jul 10, 2008 5:11 pm
Howdy Nosnow!
Y'all come on in, take off your shoes and sit a spell. I'm in San Antonio, but hail from the East Texas piney woods. Where abouts are y'all? When I saw "east Texas" on your locale, I thought, "wow, maybe a red dirt musher back in the deep woods?"
I know what you mean about Good Rednecks vs Bad Rednecks. A few years back I was driving Highway 21 from Alto through Douglas on my way to Nacogdoches. It was just twilight after a day of hard rain and red mud had slid out onto low spots on the paved road. I hit one of those mudslides on a curve in the road and as I steered left my suv went straight on and off the pavement into a slick muddy shoulder. I tried to ease out but, as you can imagine, this just sank me down to the axils.
I had two options; call my folks and have them send my cousin, (a good redneck) with his truck and a chain, or wait thirty minutes for any redneck passing by in a truck. I decided to wait and make the call in half an hour. Right at twenty minutes a big blue dually, four wheel drive with extended cab pulled up and asked if I needed help. Before I had “yes” out of my mouth he was backing up to get into position. I got out to show him where to hook the chain, but he had it secured to his custom welded front bumper, before I had stepped through the mud. He hooked the chain to my tow hitch and waved me back into my car. I was eased back onto the blacktop in a few seconds and before I could get out again to thank him he’d unhitched his chain and was gone down the road. Another Good Redneck, who just lived for moments like this.
They are a special breed of folk and they can be found in every state and every country. In Minnesota, they are guys in parkas and pick-ups that pull you out of snow banks. In Florida and Louisiana, they pull you out of swampy sink holes. You’ll find them in Alaska, Norway, Alberta, California, Michigan, Maine,…… Heck, I’ll bet some of them are even mushers.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who was irritated at Red Stone for his remarks, I’m very disappointed in the forums at the “official Iditarod” site. I really missed the old Cabela’s site this past year. Its reporting was better, more thorough, and strategy oriented. Happily the old Cabela’s forums are resurrected here at the BSSD hosting. We sure love these kids and their faculty / administrators. They created this checkpoint for us to drop hooks and rest our teams. Glad you found your way here.
Mush y’all,
Southpaw Sarida
Sarida the Snowless