Man, being here has put me in a bad mood.

[ZombieNixon]

I swear, Freepervilles have a different aura than blue cities. I've been home three days and already, I've got a bad cold and scalded my tongue three times. Just living here makes me snappy and uptight, whereas when I was in Chicago, I was happy and laid back, which is ironic considering I'm now in a rural area as opposed to a big city. Also, it seems that the greater concentration of Republicans in the area, the worseI feels. I got this feeling driving through Texas that I would be jumped if I dared to set foot outside the car.

Let me share some of the "heartland, small town rural American values" I'd been so happy to leave behind:
• People here think they're better than you, especially if they drive a pickup truck or SUV. The feeling is apparently multiplied tenfold if said vehicle sports a Bush sticker.
• They don't know how to drive. Plus, they're dicks about it. Seeing that I had to change lanes (and had had my signal on for the past five minutes), the guy in the next lane does not let me through, but instead pulls up alongside me, flips the bird and speeds off. Also, they do not brake for pedestrians, but merely zoom on through. This is inexcusable, as in a big city, you have the excuse of not wanting to back up traffic, whereas here, there is rarely a car tapping your back bumper.
• To the teenagers dressed like gangsters on their too-small bikes: KNOCK IT OFF!!! You're in a small oil-and-gas town! You have no "cred" or whatever you're going for. You are not a rapper. You are not Diddy or Snoop Dogg or DJ Crappy Whatever. You are not black. Most black people I know would laugh at your ridiculous appearance. Face it, in you sheltered life, you've rarely if ever ventured more than thirty miles outside your home, and you've probably never seen an African-American person of your own age (seriously, the majority of black people in this town comprise the runners from Kenya who train here for the Olympics). How do I know? If you had any cultural experience, you'd know that wearing your pants down to your knees and your hat upside down and sideways does not equate your pasty ass with either a person with a high melanin-production or an overpaid coastal media mogul! :mad:

Why, oh why, God...do the prettiest areas of the country have to be so close-minded and vote Republican? Why? :grr:

Hopefully, this feeling will go away when some of my friends start returning for their break in a few weeks.

[hfojvt]

1. there is no reason to brake for pedestrians in a small town

that is just a waste of gas. After my car goes past the pedestrian will have plenty of time to cross in the next three minutes until another car comes along.

[RandomKoolzip]

2. So right on about the white boy wanna-bes.

Most of these losers have NO EARTHLY CLUE about what it's like to be black.

Oh, cultural backlash, where is thy sting?

[cwydro]

3. Yikes!

whereabouts is this hateful burg???