{"id":16,"date":"2006-07-30T07:00:40","date_gmt":"2006-07-30T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/?p=16"},"modified":"2006-07-30T07:00:40","modified_gmt":"2006-07-30T11:00:40","slug":"you-might-be-a-redneck-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"You might be a Redneck if…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think the fun of “You might be a redneck” is in the fact that most of us have some degree of redneck-ness in us.\u00a0 (Is that a word?\u00a0 It should be.)<\/font><\/p>\n

It’s also funny to note that there are all different kinds of rednecks.\u00a0 The most common stereotype is of the Great Southern Redneck, partly because there are so many of them and they are so entertaining.\u00a0 But there are other types, like the Eastern Redneck, the Vermont Redneck, and the Northeastern Redneck.\u00a0 They’re all affected to some degree by the environment they live in and by their own family heritage.<\/font><\/p>\n

Take my family, for example.\u00a0 My dear departed Dad was a redneck of sorts – the likes of which I’ve never seen since.\u00a0 He completely defied categorization – Japanese American, New England Redneck?\u00a0 He was a hardworking guy, very blue-collar.\u00a0 He had been dealt\u00a0some blows in life, and he managed to scrape by and still kept a positive attitude.\u00a0 Some of the things he did were very redneck.\u00a0 He built us kids a jungle gym out of two by fours and plywood…\u00a0 and if you ever saw the car I learned to drive in, oh my God…\u00a0 It was an old Plymouth Volare, rigged up with a giant plywood roof rack to which he strapped all of his extermination equipment.\u00a0 What teenager wants to be seen in something like that?<\/font><\/p>\n

Grandma has redneck tendencies, too.\u00a0 But that shouldn’t be too surprising considering that she grew up in farm country.<\/font><\/p>\n

Ah well.\u00a0 I think that’s why the five of us kids tend to want to get away from our background?\u00a0 We haven’t entirely succeeded…\u00a0 I kept my old car for a year, rusting away in the backyard until my new car was totalled and I had to reanimate the clunker.\u00a0 So, I can relate to some of these redneck ways – and laugh at the ones that blow away anything that I or my family ever did…<\/font><\/p>\n

But enough about us.\u00a0 So, without further ado:<\/font><\/p>\n

You might be a redneck if…<\/p>\n

A little rain\u00a0doesn’t spoil the fishing…
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\n<\/font>[Ya gotta give these guys some credit – They saved the truck and they’re makin’ the best of a bad situation…]<\/font><\/p>\n

Everyone at Spring\u00a0break enjoyed riding on your limo…
\n<\/font>You carry your\u00a0front porch with you…
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You need fashion\u00a0tips from your husband…
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You wear a shirt\u00a0like this for your engagement picture…
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Your wedding\u00a0picture looked like this…
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And your wedding\u00a0cake looked like this…
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Your mailbox looks like this…\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
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\n[I need to get one of these!]<\/p>\n

Your doghouse looks like this…
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Your pickup looks\u00a0like this…
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You have a deers\u00a0butt for a door bell…
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\n[Okay, that’s too redneck for me!]<\/p>\n

You don’t need a\u00a0lake to do a little skiing…
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Or if your wife is\u00a0quoted in the local payper saying…
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Thanks again to Martha Taylor!<\/p>\n

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I think the fun of “You might be a redneck” is in the fact that most of us have some degree of redneck-ness in us.\u00a0 (Is that a word?\u00a0 It should be.) It’s also funny to note that there are all different kinds of rednecks.\u00a0 The most common stereotype is of the Great Southern Redneck, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}