On that infamous line, “Hey Y’all, Watch This!”
Hello folks, let’s chat…My sisters and I did some dangerous things back in the day, just to see what would happen. We touched an electric fence. We walked the side rails of a bridge. We even shimmied along a cable above the churning Mississippi River because the massive rope was anchoring a barge to the elevator and we wanted to explore the vacated vessel. Yes, I know. Brilliant. We didn’t share that last one with Mama until we were grown and married with kids of our own and she still liketa fainted. (I ask you, do we not look like a Wild West gang in this pic?)
My point? To some extent, I understand the infamous line, “Hey y’all, watch this!” What I don’t understand is how my fellow southerners got the exclusive rights to it.
For illustrative purposes I bring you the true straight running crazy story of a Colorado man. To protect what is left of the poor man’s privacy we are going to call him Mr. Smith, as in Mr. Smith and Wesson.
Mr. Smith recently shot himself in the foot. Twice. It’s that second shot that brings him to our attention here at All Things Southern.
The police report said that Mr. Smith was in his garage when he shot his bare foot with a .22 semi-automatic handgun. I can understand that. Stuff happens. However, his next move was to put his boot on the injured foot and shoot it a second time. Yes’m.
When the police arrived on the scene Mr. Weston explained that he hadn’t accidentally shot himself twice. He had shot the same foot two times on purpose– to see how different it would feel with and without the boot. His words, not mine.
As stated earlier, my sisters and I were curious about a lot things growing up country in rural Louisiana, and I remain curious about a lot of things today. So, perhaps you’re wondering why someone who once did something as dangerous and ridiculous as shimmying across a heavy cable high above the Mighty Mississippi could have the audacity to place poor Mr. Smith in our Straight Running Crazy file.
It’s simple, really. Once is an experience, twice is a trend.
Hugs, Shellie
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Shellie, do you think there mighta been a sibling off in the corner whispering, “I double-dog dareya to do it agin!”
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Shellie
That would be entirely possible. 🙂
lida mcgivern
That line never ended well for my cousins and me. I remember a time, in particular, when we were singing the song”Beans in my ears”, where else but in one of Uncle Doc’s bean fields. A line in the song says “My Mama said not to put beans in my ears”. So guess what we all did. Yep, beans in the ears. Well, one of my cousins got the beans stuck in his ear. We all tried to dig them out, all the while pushing them farther in. Aunt Ruby loaded us all in the car for the trip to Dr Paris’ office and when we returned home, it was not pretty.
Florence Hupf
Good morning, Shellie. This was so funny! Thing is, being, from the South, I believe every word of it. I liked Mr. O’Daniel’s quote, too: that man saying,
“That girl ain’t right.” grew up hearing those words.” Polite way to say, “She’s crazy.” Reading your column, esp. when other Southerners have added their own comment, is like old home week. I’ll bring the banana puddin’.
Stay sweet! I love you and God does too.
Shellie Rushing Tomlinson
🙂 THANKS Mrs. Florence! The banana puddin’ should be a bit hit! 🙂
Shellie Rushing Tomlinson
And I think you are both mighty perspective. 🙂 Thanks for dropping me a line!
Robert O'Daniel
It was my pleasure to have with River Jordan on the Oxford Square a couple of years ago. You, Shellie, became a topic of conversation. I only know you from your posts and occasionally the pod cast of your radio show but that didn’t stop me from making the statement, “That girl ain’t right.” River agreed. I think this blog has just proven both of us to be correct.