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Old 08-02-08 | 08:47 AM
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From: Bellingham, WA
Around here, there are regular rednecks and there are "rich rednecks". Regular rednecks may live in a mobile home or just a small, older house, and they love classic rock, smoking and drinking, and junky old lifted pickups. Often times they work in garages or scrape by collecting pallets or scrap metal. These guys are generally pretty nice and, even though some may think biking is silly, they rarely bother me.

Rich rednecks, on the other hand, are usually contractors, landscapers, or they are supervisors at the local Nissan plant. Basically, they would be normal rednecks if they hadn't managed to get into a profession making fairly good money. They usually drive brand new lifted Ford F-350s with no exhaust and are likely to own a huge but generic house in a wealthy suburb or waaay outside of town with several acres of land they don't use. They must own a boat and may own a few jet skis, ATVs, and an in-ground swimming pool. Whenever they're in a store or restaurant, they make sure to look the part of a bad-ass all the time, looking irritated and "staring down" other men who are just trying to eat/shop. In fact, they stare at me so much that I'm just assuming they're secretly gay, which I have no problem with. Some are fairly nice in person and some are just pricks all the time, but just about all of them are practically evil when they get behind the wheel and their wives are usually even worse. They hate anybody who is going slower than them (which is wide open all the time), so they really hate cyclists. However, they usually don't actually have the nerve to honk, yell, or throw things (that's more of a high school kid thing). Instead, their tactic for "showing me" is just to rev their engines or gas it as they drive by. Basically, their prime objective in life seems to be to get rid of their money as quickly as possible, and to rush everywhere so they can get their lives over with as quickly as possible. In the meantime, they must at all times appear to be as manly as possible at all cost, despite always staring at men and seemingly paying very little attention to their wives.
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