Hey Aldean, I was raised in a small town. Let me tell ya' 'bout it . . . [View all]
Little town south of Houston. 2021 population of 8,000, probably half that when I grew up there.
My brothers thought it humorous to say things like, "I got problem with n***ers, Hell, everbody oughta' own one."
It was the days of separate but equal. Not a single instructor at the "trade school" had a Bachelor's Degree.
They loves them some guns. An acquaintance kept his protection gun in the dresser drawer. His teenage daughter doing a DIY drug detox put it to her chest and pulled the trigger. She lived because of his military training on sucking chest wounds. Where'd she get her drugs? I suspect raiding her Dad's stash.
When I was in high school one of my "buddies" got off on driving through "colored town" and shooting people on their front porches with his pellet gun. He later became a Texas Highway Patrolman.
The only radio reception is AM which is a sink hole of hate radio MAGA lies and propaganda. The only internet is 5 gigabyte/second satellite that costs $150/month so the kids "don't git much learnin'" unless they sit in the McDonald's parking lot. McDonald's? The only health food store in town.
They had a hospital but it's gone now, closed down. Just as well as I always thought the place should be burned down and the earth sown with salt so nothing ever grows there again. It was a shithole. My Mother in law was dying and the doctor, with food stains on his tie, told her two daughters to "git used to people dyin'". The Dr and I both got lucky that day. He didn't suffer a broken jaw and I didn't go to jail.
So yeah Motherfucker, tell me about small towns but do it from arm's length away. I'm all ears except for the fists dangling at the end of my arms.
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