Flyover State

[jackstaxi]

Today, I taxied a middle-aged mom. She hopped into my cab and told me that she needed to run some errands while her daughter was getting registered for university. She aid she'd walk but it is just too hot and she's got some multi-syllabic foot problem and no thank you, I'll just take a taxi. She was from Los Angeles. She wanted to stop by the

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[burtonlabs]

Oh, people...
By the way, happy late birthday! I was going to say something ON the day, but you hadn't updated in forever and I figured you'd abandoned LJ forever.

[tori_vixen]

You should have played the dueling banjos and told her she had a "perty mouth".

[celestialgldfsh]

This reminds me of when my mom, as a teenager, went on a road trip from California to where my uncle was stationed in Missouri. There, they visited a church, and the pastor announced my grandpa was a minister. Afterward, a woman approached them and said, "Oh, you have churches in California now?" This was in the late 1960s...

I'm amazed at how people get these outrageous ideas in their head, and about their own country.