the south is weird
returning to stl tommorow and it'll be good to have a day just to unwind back at home. while i have no disdain for the south and find a lot of it very appealing (southern hospitality, quiet country, love the accent), tennessee definitely has some oddities:1a. mom and i went to church this morning (http://www.hermitagehillsbaptist.com), and most (well, pretty much all) of the congregation was caucasian. i guess coming to TN, diversity isn't something that necessarily sticks out in my mind. interestingly, the pastor basically rebuked the congregation for some racist comments he had heard regarding a black member (whom i guess they scared away?). i was definately impressed that he stuck it to the congregation, but throughout the rebuke, my mom and i looked at each other as we were basically the only non-white people there. after the service ended, we totally thought everyone was going to come up and talk to us, just to try and be "accepting of minorities." ends up no one did (which could lead me into a discussion of the fakeness of "southern gospitality").
1b. side note, i went into service wearing shorts and sandals and my mom was pretty low-key in attire to. in case of weird looks or comments about our lack of dressing up, i came up with two responses: 1) i'm sorry, we just came from China and didn't know that you needed to dress up for church or 2) haven't you read the book of James?
2. went to the Nashville Shores amusement park and was sitting next to this trampoline amusement park thingy that costed money. as kids came up to pay for the ride, i noticed that the girl running the ride stuck the bills down her pants instead of in her pocket. i started laughing as she looked more like a stripper in training. women here in the south seem to either be in two categories: 1) super-tall or 2) single-mothers. odd. i always had the impression that southern ladies were shorter, but i guess that would be based upon my friend from Arkansas in college who was barely over 5'.
3. in a strip mall, instead of a normal soda vending machine, there was a bait & tackle vending machine, from which you could buy nightcrawlers or mealworms. sadly, eating the mealworms would probably be more healthier than drinking soda.
posted by kwok @ 8:24 PM
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