[AT] Country music gripe

[Francis Robinson]

	A CM station that was on in the wood shop yesterday kept wearing out a 
song that I find particularly annoying... Its the one where the artist (?) 
was singing in a very boastful manner about backing up 3 miles of traffic 
while driving his "International Harvester combine". Most real farmers work 
our asses off trying our very best to maintain good relations with the 
public and to operate in as considerate of a manner as possible when 
dealing with the our immediate neighbors, users of our roads and the public 
in general. There are always a few bad apples both in the public and among 
farmers but "most" work at being considerate, at least the ones that have 
grown up...
	I forget exactly how fast he said he was going but I know it was a lot 
faster than any combine I ever owned would travel.   :-)
	His arrogant attitude sure isn't doing real modern day farmers any 
benefit. There are enough miss-perceptions out there now. He should stick 
to singing about how his knocked-up girl friend met his drunken wife in 
prison after she was caught stealing catalytic converters in the K-Mart 
parking lot and hiding them under her house trailer...

	A few years ago I did become very put out over some moron pulling a baler 
behind an old M on a curving hilly road as we were going to the tractor 
show at Greenville OH. We had to follow him for almost 10 miles and he 
never even looked back the whole time. I won't list the things I was saying 
about him by mile 5 but some of it involved his ancestry. I was complaining 
(to my poor wife) about him giving all farmers a black eye. When he finally 
turned into the drive of his "mini ranchette"  it became obvious that he 
wasn't even a farmer but sadly everybody else on that road thought he was.


--
"farmer"


Francis Robinson
Central Indiana, USA
Robinson at svs.net