Redneck Country - Part II

This statement, surprisingly, didn't get us shot

Seeing a "Think Fast Hippie" sticker on the rear end of a big-assed truck in the Chilcotin backroads made my mind wander to the scene in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, where the characters find themselves suddenly in "Bat Country". We were there too, except for us it was Rednecks. As out of place as the bats were in Vegas, rednecks too seemed to have no place in the serentity of our pristine surroundings. Yet, there they were.

Sitting near our campfire that evening, partaking in our own hippie stereotype, we pondered the mysteries of the redneck. As we stared at our fire (there it is!), Carmen produced this gem:

"Rednecks should not be defined solely by their values, but by the fact that they are always found out in nature fucking shit up for everybody else"

Indeed, the more we thought about this, the funnier it was. Rednecks do seem to spend a lot of time in the great outdoors and certainly all of their activities (4x4ing, dirt biking, shooting things etc) constitute things that fuck shit up. We pulled out all the immaturity stops with this one and giggled until our fire dwindled and it was time for the tent. Hard not to feel a little bit smug on the eve of our own planned 'do no harm' bike ride.

I guess that is the way it is with stereotypes. You can conveniently dump the characteristics you don't like in one big stinking pile and plant your own behaviour among the roses. Inevitably, there will be a time though, that you're proven wrong and you'll see that even the roses grow in shit too.