A rant left over from the other day

[apocalypsos]

Dear graduating seniors driving in the Jeep in front of me,

You know, normally I'm all for you morons painting up your cars and driving around honking your horns during the last week of school. Whatever, don't care, go nuts. It's your last week of high school ever and I know how you feel.

However, I think you all are complete dipshits, and here's why:

1. None of you were wearing seat belts. A small thing, but considering how the driver was operating the vehicle, IDIOTS.

2. You had "2007" painted on the windshield. Like, ALL over. Like, so big there was no possible way you were able to see clearly through it. And then you proceeded to drive down Main Street past the police station and our two police cars in a small town where everybody knows who you are. IDIOTS.

3. You had a HUGE Confederate flag hanging from the back of your Jeep. And I've bitched about this before and had people give me good explanations of why someone who doesn't live in the South might fly one, but you know what? NO. I just can't do it. You live in Pennsylvania. And remember that thing about this being a small town? That means that I know for a fact who your families are and that none of them have lived outside of this area going back at least three generations.

And if you were rednecks, I might let it slide, but like I said I know who you all are. You are all preps in tuxes driving around in a bright yellow Jeep. In other words ... IDIOTS.

Sincerely,

Me

Comments

[cmstephens.livejournal.com]

First step for these people: Graduation.

Next step: Apparently becoming Darwin Award winners. If that doesn't happen by the way they drive and the lack of seat belts, then maybe they'll get shot for flying the Confederate flag, like someone in Tennessee did several years ago.

[siberian-skys.livejournal.com]

OMG--One of the many reasons I hate being transplanted to the South is that damned Confederate Flag that I have to look at every day. Why the hell would those brats be flying it up there?

It sounds like they need to re-do their senior year.

[yud.livejournal.com]

Sheesh, and I thought it was bad when I saw people flying confederate flags in West Virginia~

[ciara-belle.livejournal.com]

1. Illegal

2. Questionably legal.

3. Completely stupid.

I hate Pennsylvanians who fly confederate flags. We are north of the Mason-Dixon line, people!

[mostlynormal1.livejournal.com]

The only time I've ever seen a full-fledged KKK rally (with white hoods and gowns) in my life was in small town in southern Pennsylvania just outside of Hanover.

Please to be keeping in mind that I have lived all over da WORLD (including a 4 year stint in Montgomery, Alabama).

*sigh* And I'd love to do a rant about Pennsylvania, BUT...

Last weekend, in downtown DC, I was walking the Susan G Komen Race for the Cure 5k. A woman in front of me, attempting to jog with a double stroller in a crowd of thousands had two confederate flags attached to her stroller. A local rent-a-cop, leaning against a wall, yelled to her, "Now that's a flag I like!"

You just gotta wonder what people are thinking...

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm just waiting for the day I run into a KKK rally around here. I've never actually heard any rumblings or anything, but I know they're around here somewhere. It'd go smashingly with the two billboards I try to avoid driving past that say "Abortions Kill Babies And Hurt Women." *headdesk*

And ... seriously. I mean, I get the southern pride thing (although no, I really kind of don't, because if I walked around carrying a Patriots jersey or something and said it was New England pride people would look at me like I was deranged), but for crying out loud, there isn't a symbol they could use for that that won't have people questioning whether they're a bigot or not? Maybe they could all carry around peach cobbler or pecan pie or something. Call me crazy, but I'd think yummy backed goods would give a better impression of your love for where you live.

... great, now I want pie.

[girlwiththebook.livejournal.com]

i see the confederate flag and the only thing i will ever be able to associate it with is racism.

[irishblessing.livejournal.com]

Me too - and I live in South Carolina, one of the places where it's supposed to be "OK" to fly. (The State Capitol used to fly it, for christsakes.)

[storydivagirl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I see people with confederate flags here in Jersey and I find myself wondering if *I'm* the complete idiot and Jersey *didn't* fight for the union.