A Trip to Houston & Salutes

Sandy and I took a vacation and went to The Woodlands, Tx last week to visit her Aunt Ethel.  I know it says Houston, but when you travel it’s like telling folks you live in Memphis when we actually live in Cordova.

It was about a 600 miles, two tanks of gas, nine hours, and that one just one-way.  We got to see a lot of scenery throughout Arkansas and Texas.  Most of it looked like Tennessee.

Driving across Texas we went traversed through many small towns with populations under 1,000 and I couldn’t help but be reminded of  Hee-Haw and the salutes they used to do on that show to all the small towns.  All at once as we were coming up to one of these hamlets and saw the town name with the number, I said the town name and “SSSSAAAAAAALLLUUUUTTTTE!!!!!

Sandy immediately know where I was coming from and joined right in.  So here’s a salute to a few of those small towns:

Seven Oaks     population 131

Burke                population 315

Appleby          population 444

Garrison         population 844

 

SALUTE!

How to know if you're from a small Southern town!

How to know if you’re from a small Southern town

1. The next small town over is always meaner.
2. Pillars of the community in your town are considered “uppity snobs” by the next town.
3. Any town north of you is full of Yankees; any town south of you is full of red necks.
4. If you live in the country, all others are “city folk” and vise-versa.
5. Homecoming (football or basketball) is the social and cultural event of the winter.
6. The town festival (Doodle Soup, Mosquito Pie, or Cow Chip Flinging) is the same thing in
the summer.
7. On the weekend you cruise between the two convenience stores on opposites sides of town.
8. You do it 50 times and only burn 1/8 of a tank of gas.
9. You are at a field party busted by the cops, you are the first one to leave, and the whole
town knows about it before you get to town (pre-cell phone days).
10. The reason given by the cops for busting the party up-there’s no bathroom facilities.