Originally Posted by
mrodgers
Since I'm out on the deep back dirt roads, it's all the real rednecks driving junker rusted out pickup trucks that I see, and every single one of them slow down when they see me and wave to me and give me a big toothless grin. Then I was climbing my "monster" hill one day where there isn't a single bit of man made anything anywhere when some ritzy looking older woman comes flying down the hill kicking dust up for miles in a big Cadillac Escalade and as she flies by me probably at about 50 mph kicking up rocks, I see a cell phone plastered against her ear. Even in the middle of nowhere deep in real redneck country, you can't get away from it.
Yeah, now that I think about it, I shouldn't bad mouth red necks. Maybe there should be a different name for the narcissistic, narrow minded people that I occasionally encounter around Northeast Pennsylvania. For example, some that drive their $40,000 trucks to their $35,000 homes and think they own the roads (and parks)... and many don't even own pickups, but share the attitude. I suspect they tend to sit around with other narrow minded people and gripe about other people with an entitlement mentality (using much smaller words), never realizing that they are the ones that truly feel entitled to all the privileges that society has to offer... like their attitude of using public roads however they please.
I have had many good encounters and conversations with folks in this area and others that could be considered rednecks that I wouldn't want to lump in with those that are the real problem.
But, I am probably wandering beyond the scope of this thread.
