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I are a official redneck!
by Kent Fletcher


I'm an official redneck -- I just found out today. I was in the next little town down the road this morning, yakking with a gal about my car -- an 83 Volvo 240 DL wagon. Odometer reads 182K+ (quit working about five years ago). Looks like hell (for those who have never seen it!), original paint was maroon (still is with splotches of bondo and brown primer now), white top, hood can spray-painted white with a hole above the latching mechanism (put another hood on, then couldn't get it open, had to cut a hole in it to unscrew the bolts), grill has been removed (cause I busted it trying to get the hood open before I cut the hole in it), windshield is cracked all over the place, no hubcaps, no beauty rings. I do have sheepskin covers for the two front seats, kind of a 'vanity' thing. Car still gets me from point A to point B in relative comfort, and it's paid for.

ANYway, a couple of years ago, I lowered the back seat so I could load all manner of 'stuff' in the back. When my a/c was working, I figured why a/c the whole backend of the cabin, just get a cheap, clear plastic bath shower curtain from WallyWorld and string it across. Also holds the heat in the driver's compartment on those cold Texas days.

So I tol' her this was the car a mutual friend was always hollerin' about, when I wanted to borrow HIS car to go to Mississippi. She looked in the window, said, "No radio?" Obvious, actually, and most of the dash is dismantled at the moment for wont of a relay to get the auto overdrive working again. Then she turned back and saw the shower curtain.

"What's the curtain for?"

"To keep the heat or the cold up front, as appropriate."

"Wayel, boy, you are a redneck with that one!"

And no duct tape, either!

I've laughed all day!


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Kent Fletcher, native Mississippian and retired military, now lives in Texas.
Contact Kent at this e-mail address.



Read more of Kent’s “meanderings”:

Hotrods and high school
Psssssst!
Raisin’ Delta cain
Roguing beans and a ‘39 Plymouth
Ghosts of Christmas Past


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