Same issue in West Virginia, West Virginia was the last state to report a case...the entire time I lived in WV, while WORKING AT A HOSPITAL I didn't catch COVID.
I legit never saw albino people in the wild until I moved there...then boom...everywhere because the albino family kept fucking each other.
One of the best Jeff Foxworthy skits right before the Atlanta Olympics pointed out there were gonna be a bunch of dudes in tight shorts headed down the river where they filmed Deliverance... and the Olympics were never the same again lol.
Well, this one particular encounter wasn't that impressive to be honest. But the whole trip was epic! Just me and my dad, 3 weeks, from Chicago to LA. One of the awesome St things was we landed when Osama Bin Laden was eliminated. Served as a nice talking point with the different locals throughout the trip.
Anyway, after arriving and staying in Chicago 2 days we head for the roads, heavily impressed by Chicago and our big ass SUV.
...endless corn fields. Boredom. Miles and miles. Until we saw a cemetery. In the middle of nowhere, completely unlike we know them from Europe. So we pulled over to have a moment.
As we stood there, peacefully, in a sunny wind, just relaxing, out of nowhere, shirtless tatted dude in ripped jeans and less teeth in his mouth then hours I had slept appears. On a children's bike. I'd like to remember it was pink, but that might be exaggerate bias.
Started yelling at us, waving something like a stick. Looked at my dad, we needed no words. We rushed back in our white tank and rushed off in a cloud of dirt.
But that was the strangest guy we met the entire trip, bar Vegas obviously (and that poor man's Vegas just East of Vegas). For the rest I met only the friendliest (some a bit more politically extreme then me but hey, you gave me a free meal and we had fun! 🤷), people ever abroad.
I was just about to make a “Deliverance” comment. 😂 I was gonna say that I live in WV, but in a … civilized … area. I’ve definitely driven through “Deliverance” more than one or seven times, though.
😂😂😂 I get it! I've seen what I can envision as similar when I visited Arkansas. Went into a small quick stop/gas station and there was a woman behind the counter talking loudly at a co-worker. She was gorgeous, perfect makeup and hair well coifed. Then she turned to ask us if we were ready to check out. I felt horrible for her. I'll just say the other side didn't match at all.
There are some rare blue areas in WV. Lewisburg is one. Unfortunately, the state's so gerrymandered that Lewisburg is split into two districts, right down the middle of town at US 219.
That’s kinda like being up in the mountains in Tennessee. Girl I dated took me up to show me where she grew up. As we are driving down these narrow ass gravel roads she tells me, “if we get stopped, let me do the talking. Some people up here don’t like people they don’t know being up here. So if we are stopped, I’ll just tell them whose daughter I am and we’ll be fine. But if you came up by yourself, if the wrong person stopped you, you wouldn’t leave here.”
As much as people like to shit on the south/appalachia about stuff like this, every state has parts where non locals aren't welcome. Its usually rural areas where folks turned to farming weed, they tend to assume strangers are feds coming to raid them. I've lived in California and Oklahoma and both states have areas like this.
While it is some beautiful country, I think a lot of the people there wish they could escape. Years ago, while on a road trip to Virginia Beach with a buddy, we stopped at the Hooter's in Charleston for a meal and a beer. We did not stay long, and we did not flirt a lot with the waitress or leave a huge tip. When we left, the young woman ran out to our car and practically begged us to take her with, not knowing anything about us.
I didn't encounter that emotion much tbh. Some memorable people were the 80 Yr old hotel lady and bald wall of a cop in Oklahoma, hot waitress chick in St Louis, drooling all over me till 2AM cause I looked so "European" (only to bluebell me later) and weirdo hippy guy from Vegas who I also ran into in LA :)
Not forgetting the lovely old ladies from the hotel in New Mexico, who kept feeding us samples of the most delicious tex mex food until we were full. Oh, and there at that bar.we did met another weirdo! But he was 80 yrs old and taken well care of by the same ladies :)
*Edit: Oh shit, and the weird housewives party I ended up at in one of the two Springfields I was at.
Aren't road trips fun? You never do know just what will happen and what you will see. Like cops chasing down and tackling a guy in just his underwear at the University of Virginia at about 11:00 p.m., And a gay guy hitting on my buddy in Virginia Beach, beautiful waitress in Gettysburg ... There is a story to every adventure out on the road!
Lol nice! You keep on mentioning places that I didnt visit, but they sound even more fun. And I already had a blast :)
Sorry, and only now I realize I am replying on a different thread then I thought where the same topic came on. Hence the enthusiasm :D
Funny thing is, that I don't recall any interaction with a cop (apart from the chat in OK). We never got pulled over, never asked for ID anywhere, never even saw a police chase or anything.
We did get to sit in a fire truck in Chicago though!
Wherever you go you will meet up with interesting and strange people and sites. Sometimes it is not that pleasant at the time but leaves with some insight and an interesting story, other times, it can be a lot of fun! Enjoy the ride!
Yeah, it's a condition called methemoglobinemia. Basically their body oxidizes most of their hemoglobin into methemoglobin, which uses Fe³ rather than Fe² to bond with oxygen and appears bluish-purple in coloration.
I heard that in West Virginia, the typically way to perform a circumcision is to kick the guys sister in the chin. Did you ever see that done at the hospital you worked at?
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u/wakim82 13d ago
Same issue in West Virginia, West Virginia was the last state to report a case...the entire time I lived in WV, while WORKING AT A HOSPITAL I didn't catch COVID.
I legit never saw albino people in the wild until I moved there...then boom...everywhere because the albino family kept fucking each other.