I guess in retrospect, growing up in the south is a whole lot different than growing up anywhere else in the United States of America. I’m not saying I wish things were different, but if the South had won the war and become it’s out country it would not have been all that weird. The south is like a different planet when you go live anywhere else in the country. Wearing deer hunting t-shirts, cooking squirrel stew, frog gigging, and riding four wheelers would make me a social pariah where I live now.

When you grow up in the south, you get used to seeing stuff like that. Nearly everyone I know wears deer hunting t-shirts at least once a week. I loved living in Tennessee, and I wish I never had to move out here to crazy land. When you get a great job offer and have a family that’s counting on you, then sometimes you have to just pack up your life and take it out to California to teach those city boys how you properly work an oil field.

It took me a while to realize that it wasn’t just because I’m a redneck that people looked at me funny, either. There are so many different kinds of people out here who are trying to make it into showbiz that you’re bound to see rednecks, punk rockers, and Canadians all standing in the same line for a Jamba Juice. No, you can be from the country here…you just can’t be an animal-killer who wears deer hunting t-shirts.

You will get yelled at and almost physically assaulted if you wear anything like deer hunting t-shirts in California. They are all ranting and raving about Freedom of Speech and Expression out here, until you start expressing something that they don’t like. Good luck getting out of a crowd of angry people if you get cornered. It’s like a feeding frenzy!

I can’t get done with this God-awful work contract fast enough. Once I get done, me and my family are going to ditch this Beverly Hillbillies routine and move back home. Hopefully, this contract will have helped us pay for a home out of pocket, which will be amazing. I’ll be able to wear whatever deer hunting t-shirts I please, and no one is going to get mad at me. Well, my wife got used to me wearing polo shirts, so she may get a little mad…but I think we’ll be just fine back in the south where we belong.

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