Ok, how many of you have rushed home from working all day , dead tired and in one hour managed to get the whole family clean and dressed, fed and watered. Loaded everyone in the car and took off to the ballgame. Now we know this is one of America's favorite pastimes, right? Maybe , maybe not.
You see i am more or less an observer, someone who enjoys observing peoples ways, behaviors and actions. And as I was observing at the local school ballgame tonite, I noticed that out of the huge number of avid supporters of the team, only a mere handful were actually watching the game.
I saw the children running under the bleachers, the parents all talking among themselves, the teenagers huddled in groups talking about the other teenagers huddled in groups and almost everyone was eating something.So this is the way I see it. Most of us could care less about the actual ballgame. We are there for a whole lot of other reasons, not that they're bad mind you. We as Southerners seem to have a natural tendancy to miagrate towards large groups of people, large amounts of over priced food, and any venue in which we can run our mouths. In other words, we LOVE to socialize. We love belonging to a group, and having the feeling that we belong. You know we don't just do this for friday night ballgames, we also do it at church, festivals and the all time favorite.....the FAIR!!!! Why in the world would a normally frugal person go to all the trouble to get dressed, get the whole family dressed and use a tank of gas, and use up all their patience trying to park the vehicle just to get a stupid wiener with a stick stuck through it and dipped in cornbread and fried golden brown. Have we lost our minds??
No , you see we do it to bring back memories, we do for the sake of tradition, it's the one thing we can allow our children to experience that we also experienced at their age. The smells are all the same, a cross between onions, cotton candy, corn dogs, and farm animal manure and hay. And guess what we all love it, we love every bit of it. It's the atmosphere, the memories that make that corndog taste like it came from a five star resturant, and hey is their lemonade any different than anyone elses , i think not, it just plain taste better when you are at the FAIR!
Can we talk funnel cakes for just a moment please. Who thought this one up? OMG!!! Is there anything messier , or more uncomfortable to eat while standing? You come away with white powder all over your face, hands and clothes and yet- you've gotta have one everytime. Again tradition and atmosphere. You know we could make them in the Fry Daddy at home, but would they taste the same??? Instead we wait an entire year and go through almost shear H---, just so we can pay 20 times what it actually cost and have the experience of eating it standing up!! YUM, YUM....No matter what your Fair food obsession is, and I'm sure you have one, I think you will all agree , It all just reminds us of a time when things were simpler in our lives and we will all gladly go through all the hassels just to have the pleasures, brought to our senses , for one week every year.
Posts
