How hickass is too hickass?


We've been having a lot of rain here in Dallas lately. Not as much as in Gainesville, 70 miles north (see photo), but still, enough to turn a few pastures into sort-of rice paddies, or fishing grounds for egrets.

So the other day I was lazing about and realized that yet again, it was going to pour down. It was going to pour down cats and dogs, and my particular dogs had a blanket they had soiled and needed washin'. So I threw it outside in the backyard, into said rain.

It got washed by the good waters of God, purged of its doggy-stink sins.

Later, I washed it in the washing machine, but still, it wasn't AS dirty as it COULD have been, due to quick advantage taken of natural resources .

Assertion: I am hickass.
Question: Too hickass?

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Well, it's floodin' down in Texas
All the telephone lines are down
I've been tryin' to call my baby
And I can't get a single sound
-- S. Ray Vaughan

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Country folk can survive.
-- H. Williams Jr.

Comments

Unknown said…
I'd say that the dog blanket is fine. If you had hung your washing on the line, thinking you were getting a two-fer, that might have been just a tad hickass. But if you didn't tell anyone...
6:20 AM
Blogarita said…
I'd have done the same thing.

That doesn't really answer your question, does it?
7:28 AM
V said…
Very true, Wiggy, but unfortunately the homeowner's association round here (which I wish wasn't) delineates hanging of the laundry as an overly hickass offense. Fortunately, they can't see blankets thrown down on patios.

No, but it's comforting nonetheless, Blogarita.
2:52 PM
Anonymous said…
No. Never too much. Not you, OverThunk.
6:12 PM
V said…
I reckon you're right, LBB.
6:18 PM
Unknown said…
Well, then, I guess they'd better never visit Bad Axe, Michigan.

Wiggy say Booyah:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wigwam/606408490/
9:58 AM
V said…
That is superior, Wiggy! :)

I really don't know what's so horrible about hanging washing out... after all, it's a very green thing to do and THAT's all the rage. I guess I'll keep on walkin' round with this perpetual question mark over my head.

Also, Bad Axe is a cool name for a town.
7:25 PM
Anonymous said…
I tend to think of "hickass" as having car parts strewn about your front lawn.
12:35 PM
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