Yesterday it was planned that I would meet my mom, sister-in-law and niece for lunch and then shopping at a big discount/decorating store called Old Time Pottery. I still wasn't feeling well, so I lollygagged, which sounds not attractive at all and is pretty much my worst trait. I think. Please don't tell me I have a worse one.
To make a long story short, I missed my shopping date entirely. But I shopped anyway, finding myself attracted on this particular day to blue things, which reflected my mood. I loved the bluish-lavender Thomas O'Brien plates, but they were $2.49 each. That didn't seem discounted enough for me. I loved the goblets shot through with streaks of blue glass, and some wreaths with silk violets. I could have left the store empty-handed...if I hadn't been in the mood for summer. And, well, for summertime rednecky things to clutter up the outdoors. So I bought a chicken and a birdhouse.
But I didn't buy just any chicken. No, I bought faux copper SuperChicken, with action wings. Seriously. His wings are attached to little metal springs, which make them flap a little. And he has big googly eyes.
Tell me YOU could have passed him up. Really? You could have? Then what is WRONG with me???
Then I picked up this birdhouse. I don't know. I really don't. It was something about the red, white and blue. Something about the fake '58 license plate. Something about birds.
Is it kind of cute? A little fitting for the side of my garage which needs to be painted? No birds will ever nest there, of course. It's just for show. I'm so pretentious.
9 comments:
I love that chicken. I wouldn't have passed it up either...
Gill
Maurita
Girl...as my Aunt Mary would be likely to say...You are TOO funny.
I do need to share with you that a tad of white trash is seen as an understanding and a willingness to embrace diversity...yes really.
Also...Those with those true strains of white trashiness have a real way with words. HMMMM. Ok perhaps you do have 10 to 15 %.
Well none the less... lets just think of the chicken as a kindness to folk art (?) or as a tribute ...of some kind... and of the shopping as a kind of personal growth experience? It might also be a bit of a free spirited rebellion....to the occassional dullness of daily mundane life...We can all relate on that one I expect. Do remember...It may be different in the UK. I can only speak for Southern USA:>)
Goodness, I think I have forgotten the question. Was there a question.
Linda
j, no white tires here!
Rachel, I haven't really bought "country" stuff since the 80's, so I wasn't sure. And using a tractor tire for a flower bed is recycling.
Lerm, I salute your ancestry! My great-great-great-great grandfather was a traitor!
Marchelle, your chicken makes my chicken feel better.
greeneyes, glad you overcame the accent!
yacky, how about a 2002 Chevy Trailblazer that hasn't run in 6 months?
gill, you're my new soulmate.
Linda, thanks for that lovely comment! I think I would have liked your Aunt Mary. And I like thinking of my shopping trip as a "free spirited rebellion."
Barnesm - it's my brain, obviously!
Miss M, the neighbor lost a cow that he buried in a shallow grave or not at all. Now my dog likes to drag parts of it home. The last time it was the udder!
Steve - at least it's not a gnome or a pink flamingo - ??
Rachel, I came in at 35%! Man was I wrong!
Hey, thanks. I have no idea how to answer that in a cool way. Guys?
...or is he? It's hard to tell.
This is just comical.
Rachel, still keeping my fingers crossed!
Simon, that was brilliant.
I realize he isn't white, but when I googled "chav," that was the very first hit. It's also a video clip that Dickbar posted sometime last year.
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