Stupid on parade!
April 2nd, 2016
It's probably not for the best that I currently reside within a town brimming with hippies. Don't get me wrong, my coworkers would probably consider me as liberal as they come if I actually lost control of my editing equipment and told them what I really think. But the populace of Yellow Springs takes it just a bit too far. I was reminded of this on an errand last week.
Brenda and I made our way to the bike shop downtown, in order to get a flag installed on my recumbent bicycle (though shouldn't it really be a tricycle?). Burning incense wafted at us from a nearby shop that insists it only sells 'tobacco water pipes' along with its incense and obvious stoner-focused merchandise, and a literal band of hippies wandered by playing bongos.
And I think an Easter egg filled with sand. That's what it looked and sounded like, anyhow.
But all of this pales before the insipid stupidity that invariably floats to the surface in the area surrounding Yellow Springs. We were doing something earlier today, running errands of the grocery variety, when we found ourselves in Fairborn. Fairborn is a town six or so miles from our home in Yellow Springs, which is home to an Air Force base - and seems to attract all kinds of dumb.
Dumb like this. Yes, willfully ignorant racist at the Burger King, revel in your Confederate Battle Fuzzy Dice, safe in the assurance that you gleefully fly the flag of a gang of traitorous slavers. That's a great way to show your patriotism to the men and women of the armed forces that you're sharing real estate with. I'm sure they, being more educated than you, can properly appreciate the sentiment.