Friday, February 2, 2007

Grave Digger

Grave_diggerIn my slow but steady progression towards full-fledged redneck status I have crossed many things off of my “never in a million years” list. After tonight I can cross off one more. Tonight my son and husband will attend the Monster Jam Thunder Nationals.  For those of you unfamiliar with this event, it is a monster truck show. You know the kind that you see in passing on television in which a 25-foot tall airbrushed pick-up truck drives over a row of piece-o-crap cars, crushing them under the weight of its tires? Yep, that’s the one. That is what my child will be doing tonight and he could not be more excited. It is a proud day for me as a parent.



While the male members of my immediate family are attending the most notoriously redneck event in the world, I have decided to take my 20-month-old daughter to get her first tattoo. My friend and I are thinking of buying our daughters their first pack of cigarettes as well but we just don’t know if they are ready yet. That’s a big milestone.







10 comments:

  1. Cool...tell Ms T that Alison can't wait to see her tramp stamp...and if you go for the cigarettes, I say get her some "Lucky Strike"...none of the sissy stuff for that girl!

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  2. Remember that old country classic 'Give me a, Give me a, Give me a REDNECK GIRL!!!' kinda sounds like I know who wrote the original lirics. When you pick out the ink, keep in mind, Dolphins and whales are always nice, or you could go for a full blown sun-burst on her butt, that seems to be popular with the Hale girls too. I'll try to warn Aunt Stac and lil' KMH that it's sneaking up on them next. Lord, what has become of this Family? NASCAR, clogging, Dwight Yokem chicken fingers, guitars, junk cars, used toilets, birthday blessings, monster trucks, and now, God help us, TATTOOS!!! makes me wonder what I was a thinkin' when I took that there pig fer the dowery. I knew we shoulda helded out fer the goat.

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  3. I must correct Papa Dale . . .I do NOT have a sunburst on my butt. . . .there are FLOWERS on my butt (actually my lower back, thankyouverymuch.)
    Also, I must say that this entry reminded me of the Beavis and Butthead episode where they are mocking monster truck rallies and saying, "Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. . "

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  4. Angie-
    For the tattoo, I was thinking that a rebel flag would be perfect. As for the cigarettes, I really want her to take after her Daddy (in his old days) and smoke Marlboro Reds. They are a non-stop ticket to emphazema.

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  5. Papa Dale-
    You just outted me and my "tramp stamp" (thanks, Angie, for that lovely term). Yep, it's a whale. I was a big ol' hippie wannabe in college!

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  6. Aunt Becky-
    Beavis and Butthead? Really? I wouldn't have pegged you as a fan.

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  7. J,
    I do hope you realize I was using the "tramp stamp" term in the kindest most loving way....got 2 of 'em myself :)

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  8. well, B & B was just tooooo popular when I was about a sophomore in college.

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  9. I only recently heard the term "tramp stamp". I always called it something else, but I don't think I should share my term. The only ink on my body is from cheap pens exploding in my pocket.

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  10. I have two and I really want a third. My first one and (Hopefully third) will be little memorials af people. The day before my best friend died he drew me a picture and I have that on my upper right shoulder. The third will be a flower that has the word "Hero" around it, and that is what my daugher's name means. My second one: I was really drunk and my friend was a tattoo artiest. So I said, "I want one." For both of us being drunker than anything, it came out okay. But there is no way in the world I would get a tramp stamp. And the only names that go on me are my kids

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