[AT] Country music gripe
Francis Robinson
robinson at svs.net
Sat Jan 5 05:17:00 PST 2008
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
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