Do not worry Dale, I have taken on some redneck ways. We can say I am Redneck Lite or Jr. Redneck or Associate Redneck. I can get a button that says 'Redneck in Training'.
I burn in the back yard while drinking a High Life and poking it with a stick.
Also, and I think I do it a little wrong, but during the winter I had my Jeep on blocks in the back yard.
Issues here:
1. It was a Jeep and not a Camaro (or other 1970s 'hot rod')
2. The blocks were only the two inch - not cinder blocks
3. It has tires
4. It runs
Now the dude (we can call him Clem) that the lives down the block..he's a redneck. He has bicycle handle bars on his riding lawnmower. It was definitely something Foxworthy could use.
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Nearly drove off the road the first day I saw it. Never have the camera ready to snap a shot when Clem is moving his 1/32 of an acre next to the double long.
He also has matching 1974 Ford LTDs (or similar) - between the two I believe he has a functioning vehicle, instead they just sit there like a mirror image parked front bumper to front bumper. His latest 'honey do' list must have said, make place look like a religious compound as he put up a 6 foot chain link fence with barbed wire. Afraid someone may pull up, put wheels on his house and steal it.
His kid will be traumatized just from having the old man out there in his boxers sans shirt while they wait for the bus (they may both be trying to get through the first grade) and he is scratching himself more than a baseball player with crabs. When he does don a shirt, it is the standard redneck issued 'wife beater'.
Sadly, I am not making this up. So it appears it is not a stereotype, just a way of life but I am sure it would be a good time to do some burning and drink some beers with him.
JT#14
p.s. Back in big 'ol Webster, NY the rednecks were called 315ers (based on area code) as that was where the more rural area started and was the next county over. Farms, racetracks, big cornfed girls, it's all the same, there are rednecks everywhere - we just did not have 'The Dukes of Wayne County' to exploit it and let the secret out.
