Since my makeshift office is in the front of the house I have a front row view to what and (once I learn folk) who is coming in and out of town (a 2 lane highway makes it easy). Imagine my surprise when I see this chugging up the road:
(Yes, there are items in the attached little cart)
It is, indeed, a riding lawn mower WITH a little trailer. My jaw dropped. I started laughing. The Vince Gill song 'One More Last Chance' when he jokes his wife took his car keys but 'forgot about his 'ol John Deere' shot thru my mind causing me to chuckle more. I shook my head and thought that would be it so I went back to unpacking my office crap (btw, I have a lot more office crap than I should). Soon after I saw this coming:
(Can't keep me from town-I got my serious hat on)
And then this going:
(Mow, mow, mow the street...)
All within, probably, half an hour. I had to stop and just... I was laughing so hard I could hardly contain myself. When my host came home I asked him about it. "Oh yeah," he says serious-like. "People drive their riding mowers to town and back all the time. There was a tag sale Uptown* and she probably brought the trailer knowing she was going to buy stuff. Oh, and people DO get DUIs on them."
He had read my mind.
"And before you ask, yes my nephew will drive mine to his house to mow their lawn & then back to mow mine. But we don't drive ours into town, oh heck no," he informs me. Before I can breathe a sigh of relief he adds, "That's what the golf cart is for. It'll be back from the shop tomorrow."
The golf cart arrives at the house in the morning. Being a city girl I'm sure you, my friends, can picture what I was thinking. Cream colored, non descript golf cart like any normal golf course has. Noooooo. What pulls up on a trailer is a big wheeled, bright green, loud mini-bike sounding honkin' BEAST of a golf cart. So it's not a golf cart, it's a GOLF CART.
(See our riding mower in the back. It doesn't go to town cause, you know, it'd attract too much attention)
The guys are stoked to get it back and mess around on it for the next while. My host took me on a ride and despite the loudness of the engine it was fun (of course!) And then I saw it--or them. The one thing (two things) that I had hoped upon all hope that would never, ever be on one a vehicle I was riding in. But there they were in full on solid steel just a swangin':
(BALLS!)
From the city to the holler, nothing I experience is ever dull and things here are not normal as I know them. And I dig it-it's kinda fun (temporarily.)
Pardon me, I have to go for a cruise on the golf, er excuse me, GOLF CART.
*Uptown - Downtown Union City as Uptown even though it's the Downtown area (I guess 'cause we live south of it?)
