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     you describe him, Sarah?’            “He’s a stupid redneck!”            “He’s not a redneck,” Jennifer said, sounding slightly     offended.  “He just likes to hunt.”            “Well, he is stupid.  And, in my opinion, anyone that     likes to hunt is a redneck!” Sarah countered.            “A lot of people around here hunt,” I told her.  “So     did every person that first settled this country.  But that     doesn’t make them all rednecks.”            “My point exactly,” Jennifer said.            I was still confused about where this was going.     “I’m not sure why a guy is stupid just because he hunts.”            “Oh, it’s not the hunting that makes them stupid; it is     what they do with it,” Jennifer said.  “You see, he didn’t     know we were leaving on Friday, and so that idiot...”            “Redneck idiot!” Sarah interrupted.            Jennifer turned to Sarah, “Thank you, but I think I     can take it from here!”  She then turned back to me.     “Anyway, like I said, he didn’t know we were leaving on     Friday.  He decided that he wanted to do something special     to ask me out to the Christmas formal.            “It also so happens that on the same Friday we left,     he shot a deer.  He thought he had come up with the perfect     plan.  I don’t know who it was that let him into our                                       39
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