Sunday, September 21, 2008

I wanna check you for tics

Tell me what does the word 'cowboy' conjures in your head? A rugged, hairy good looking bronc with chaps and a stetson hat? An old haggard man working on barbed wire fence in the middle of the range with cows bumping up against him? Or even the cute kids down the street who always wear wranglers and love to ride in their dad's jacked up Dodge?  Me too. Well mostly. Other things come to mind, but those mostly have to do with my ex hubby so I won't get into that.



Today, while waiting at a desolate truck stop for my ex to drop off my kids, a mini van pulls up. Shiny silver grand caravan. The kind that those cute blond mommy's, with her 4 kids and a couple dozen neighbor kids in it, drive. The kind that has the dvd players in the back for every seat so that God forbid you would have to talk to your family in the car. And also the kind that you do not expect the weirdest looking "cowboy" to get out of. I put "cowboy" in quote marks because he is in the sense trying to be a cowboy, but not an actual cowboy. He is wearing stark BLACK wranglers. I know...... black?? What self respecting cowboy wears anything but faded blue? If they do wear black its because they are their yucky pair they wear to cut the balls of the bulls for yummy eats. Not only were his wranglers black but they were TUCKED in to his Yellow boots! holy cow...i mean bull...WTH???!! Now I know some of you reading this just don't understand. You don't live in "cowboy" country. I am here to tell you!!! COW BOYS do not wear YELLOW!!! NO they don't. Especially on thier FEET!!  Then on top of his beautifully black panted behind was a RED flannel shirt with orange suspenders. i was dying by then. Laughing so hard I had to turn my radio up! honest...oh gosh... if only Clint Eastwood was here! He'd of hogged tied him and strung him up by his big toe for bein a sissy. Said with the chaw sitting in the side of my mouth, and a twang from my nose. He did have a pretty decent hat though..... it matched his boots......



1 comment:

  1. OMG...sounds like a "city" cowboy to me. I only know one real cowboy that wears his pant legs tucked into knee high boots...(he really is a cowboy too), but that sounds just too weird to me.

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