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June 27, 2005

Local Yokels

Apparently someone at the WaPo thinks the locals in B-ville are aping our betters.

Every week or so a new retailer, restaurant or spa sprouts up amid the cow patches here to satisfy their every need and, seemingly overnight, a county synonymous with a purveyor of cheap socks, dolls and televisions is earning a reputation for something altogether different: luxurious living.

How about you kiss my highly-educated, cultured, lily-white hillbilly ass, you goddamn pretentious Yankee snob? Spas among the cow patches, my ass.

What this fool is talking about is the new ritzy development going on up at Pinnacle Point & Village on the Creeks in Rogers. Apparently one can actually purchase Versace items there. Woo. Hoo. It's even rumored that the new shopping center will host stores from such high fashion centers as Dallas and even....gasp....NEW YORK CITY!

Of course, being a rube, my excitement over these developments is somewhat underwhelming. I don't care for Versace. Or Manolo Blahnik. Or any of that other overpriced, cheaply made tacky designer crap worn by those with more money than sense.

I prefer Anne Klein or Donna Karin.

But I tell you, Carhartts are hard to beat....they'll last forever, and the more they're washed, the more comfortable they get.

And they're ever so much more practical for traipsing 'round the cow patch.***

BTW, it's 'cow pasture', not 'cow patch', ye damn ignorant Yankee. It's not like we plant cows in rows and grow them like watermelons, you know.

Pompous ass.

Posted by Rita at June 27, 2005 04:56 PM

Comments

Reason #3,479 of why I work in the field and not at the Evil Empire:

I love my Carharts. I love my Justins. And I won't leave home with my hat.

And people ask me why I'm not corporate office material :p

Posted by: BloodSpite at June 27, 2005 05:41 PM

The way I look at it, I'm just required to dress-up in costume at work. My off-work hours are mine.

Carhartt's are the bomb.

Posted by: Rita [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 27, 2005 05:47 PM

I agree. When it gets really cold here, well, as cold as Memphis gets for a Midwesterner, I really miss the Carhartt jacket that's still in IL. Those things are freakin' indestructible, get more comfortable with age, and are never unfashionable.

Posted by: Bob at June 28, 2005 08:41 AM

I've had a Carhartt jacket for about 10-12 yrs. now....wear it every winter. Thing'll probably outlast me.

Posted by: Rita [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 28, 2005 08:56 AM

Not all yankees are clueless about cattle and pastures. :-)

Posted by: Keith [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 28, 2005 12:08 PM

You aren't a damn Yankee.

Posted by: Rita [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 28, 2005 12:52 PM

While still living in New Orleans, I fell in love with Fayetteville in 1991 when I was up here camping. I vowed one day I would live here. It took me 8 years, but I finally moved here after relocating for a year and a half to Dallas, which I found way too big, way too expensive and way too pretentious. I personally, wish the development in Northwest Arkansas would slow down and some of the richies would move away and take their pretentiousness with them.

My 2 1/2 acres in "unfashionable" South Fayetteville suits me fine. I can grow vegetables, have pets, and there's an EZ-Mart and an interstate onramp right around the corner. Matt's broken down old Cadillac has a tree growing up through it. And we're minutes away from the Farmer's Market and downtown Fayetteville.

The only thing I lack at this point is a pair of overalls that fit me!! I want to wear overalls and do yard work and listen to the cows mooing across the road! Rita, you must be tall. The smallest Carhatts they have are 30 X 32. I'm only 5'4, they would swallow me. Do you know of any local place that sells size 30 X 30? I've checked all of the farming supply places on 6th Street ...

Posted by: Vicky at July 1, 2005 02:32 PM

Have you tried youth sizes? My daughter used to have the same problem, and she could usually find a youth size that would fit. If neither the Tractor Supply or the Co-Op on 6th has anything, try the Tractor Supply in Rogers.

And yes, I'm 5'9 1/2", so I have the opposite problem. I have to get men's so they'll be long enough.

Posted by: Rita [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 1, 2005 02:43 PM