How to tell you live Past the Edge of Nowhere
1. You rush to see a Christmas Parade, only to find that it will happen forty-five minutes late.
2. When the parade finally does run, it is interrupted. BY A TRAIN.
3. You nearly have an asthma attack from all of the smokers. Santa apparently doubles as the Marlboro Man...
4. There is a tap dancing recital in the middle of Main Street. To that friggin' hippopotamus song.
5. Some redneck in a big truck stops mid route to talk - and holds up the parade. Said Redneck only moves when a police officer yells "Move along!" in a really angry tone.
6. The Chicken Man makes an appearance, and is greeted with The Chicken Dance and howls of appreciation.
7. Funnel cakes.
8. Tractors (from the 1800s to today) take up a good portion of the parade. They are really cool.
9. One of the Classic/Antique Cars was an '88 Monte Carlo.
10. You realize, at the end of the night, that this is the most fun you've had in a LOOOONG time.
2. When the parade finally does run, it is interrupted. BY A TRAIN.
3. You nearly have an asthma attack from all of the smokers. Santa apparently doubles as the Marlboro Man...
4. There is a tap dancing recital in the middle of Main Street. To that friggin' hippopotamus song.
5. Some redneck in a big truck stops mid route to talk - and holds up the parade. Said Redneck only moves when a police officer yells "Move along!" in a really angry tone.
6. The Chicken Man makes an appearance, and is greeted with The Chicken Dance and howls of appreciation.
7. Funnel cakes.
8. Tractors (from the 1800s to today) take up a good portion of the parade. They are really cool.
9. One of the Classic/Antique Cars was an '88 Monte Carlo.
10. You realize, at the end of the night, that this is the most fun you've had in a LOOOONG time.
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posted by rennratt at 9:15 PM
15 Comments:
I love parades. Yeah, they can be cheesy at times and there are tons of things in them that make you go, "Huh?", but they always seem to leave you with a good feeling.
In fact, I was in a parade last Friday night and I didn't even take my clothes off...
Renn: When my family gets together for the annual reunion, the big hite are the garden tour and the tour of my cousins "Bird Sanctuary". But I would never mmiss it.
Mmmmmm.... Funnel cakes. And what is with people stopping their cars in the middle of the road to talk?? I mean pull over for conversations.
We've only caught one parade in our little burg. It was cute, but we were pelted with candy. My son was thrilled! :-)
Sounds like we live in the same place. I would also add #11. 99% of the people watching the parade have actually been IN the parade at some point in their lives. (for me that would be 3 times... twice with my Girl Scout troop... nothing quite as exciting as a bunch of Girl Scouts walking down the street... doing nothing but being Girl Scouts.)
They should have had you in a convertible, waving to the crowd, with a "TOWN BLOGGER" taped to the side of the car.
Wait , there's a hippopotamus song? Those things are more evil than pigs!
I adore parades! And we just saw a Holiday one yesterday, so I made my huband drive by VERY SLOWLY so I could watch as much as possible.
Ah yes! I can see it now! The train thing is a hoot, totally.
Our town's Christmas parade was this weekend, and while there were no funnel cakes, we did have about 100 fire trucks, lots n' lots of dance troupes, every preschool in town, and several marching bands participating.
Apparently this si a Big Deal round thes parts, becasue there were THOUSANDS of people along the 5-block-long parapde route. Weird.
Wish I had been there! I went to my hometown HomeCOMING parade a few years ago and had to laugh when I saw the same cutie come around the block three times on three different "Queen" cars (Homecoming, Dairy, and Beef Growers). Apparently, my home town is short on cuties.
I went to that parade! Only it was the Dahlonega Gold Rush Days Festival parade!
I love parades...being in them and watching them.
I was just thinking this weekend that I wish we lived in a small town that had parades.
Sounds like fun. I did a similar post on our parade last year.
The Chicken Man?! That has got to be the collest parade entry ever. I'da bought a plane ticket to see that!
You had me at funnel cake
OMG! Parade!
We could live in the same hometown! This year a horrid old smoking lady was standing almost directly over a baby carriage with her flaming stogie. I swear she would have ashed on the baby just to get a better look at the 100th Cub Scout troup to walk by...
Hey, are you my neighbor? Our little county seat had its parade and tractors were the main *float* - and there were about 100 horses. There's only one high school in the whole county so the number of marching bands is low. Anybody can be in it, indeed, there were more in than out! No train though.
When I was young I loved the town parade, loved the floats and the twirlers and candy thrown into the crowds. But I feared the bands because somehow the cymbals crashing made my stomach hurt.
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