My economic stimulus check might buy me a gol durn lawn mower
Filed under: Budgets, Saving, Wealth, Charity, Recession
Just when I was about ready to give up on them people in Washington, they went and did somethin' nice fur me. Yep, the gubmint is cuttin me a check fur nothin'. It's like gettin' a present just fur bein' a citizen. Kinda makes you proud to be American again, don't it? Bein' that I'm luckier than a lot of people and I don't have to spend my check on stuff like food or life saving medicine, I been thinkin' about what I'm a'gonna do with dat money when I git it. So far I come up with a couple pretty cool ideas. At least they're pretty cool if ya ask me.First, I'm a'gonna git a new mirror for my truck. Dat one on the shotgun side had a nasty run-in with a mailbox. The good news is that it stayed fixed to the truck like where it's s'posed to be. The mailbox didn't come out so good. Ole Cooter at the gayrage tells me he can fix me up with a new mirror for about $70. I spected it'd cost me more like twice as much. He says they's bringin' them mirrors in reeeel cheap like from China. Guess I'm gonna stimulate China some.
The second thing I'm buyin' will be a new lawn mower. I gots two of 'em already but one's 'bout 20 years old. That's the one with the handle held on by hose clamps from where it broke a couple years ago. It gots heating duct for a grass chute that I screwed on there when the real one rusted off. I'll prolly keep the old mower cuz, shucks, it still works, and I'm gotten kinda fond of it after all them years. If'n I does buy a new one I think I'm a'gonna git real fancy and git one of them ones that drives itself going forward and you just walk behind it with your hands on it.
I'm gonna hafta do these things really quick like though, cuz I hear we gots some trouble comin' down the pike. It's lookin' like that Barack Obama feller is gonna git hisself voted to be da prezeedent. It's not that I gots anything against the feller wantin' to be in the big office, he gots a right to do that. But it's lookin like his $845 billion United Nations Poverty Tax is gonna git jammed down our American throats reeeel quick and quiet like. I'm guessin we won't be seein too many more free gubmint checks after that.
Recent Posts
- Stop your wife's expensive shoe habit with this T-shirt! (1/09/2009)
- The Job Hunt: No, you're not imagining it - unemployment gets worse (1/09/2009)
- Princeton slashes budget as endowment tanks (1/09/2009)
- Analysts say unemployment makes a bad year to buy a home (1/09/2009)
- Mayor defends city buying himself a gas guzzling Hummer (1/09/2009)

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
5-16-2008 @ 1:23AM
Carrie said...
The writing in this article is ridiculous! I tried to read it and stopped after about 3 sentences. Therefore, I don't even know what the article is about, nor do I particuarly want to know. I'm all for using different styles of writing to express oneself but please save the "country bumpkin" bit. It doesn't belong on this site.
Reply
5-16-2008 @ 3:38AM
Gary E. Sattler said...
Yes, maybe you're right Carrie. This style might play better in a different venue.
But you can't fault me for trying. Pushing the edges is just what I do...
We'll see how it goes.
Reply
5-16-2008 @ 7:06PM
Carrie said...
Sorry if I sounded a little harsh. My distaste for "redneck" humor got the better of me. :) I'll look forward to reading your other work.
5-17-2008 @ 1:22AM
Gary E. Sattler said...
Absolutely no harm done Carrie.
Folks like me, who tend to push the boundaries, must be ready for whatever comes.
I've often said: "If life was just a circus, I'd be that stupid guy who sticks his head in the lion's mouth."
It's my curse. I can rarely leave "well enough" alone.
Sometimes I pay a very high price for stepping into the land of complacency and shouting that something needs to be done. But, I have to do it to remain at peace with myself and frankly, I sleep very well at night.
Your comments, in whatever form or with whatever intent, are greatly valued by me. Had you withheld your important contribution, I'd still be wondering if anyone even read one word of what I wrote.
Cheers to you! I'll look forward to hearing from you again.
Reply
6-18-2008 @ 1:20AM
Kevin said...
I'ma figg'rin' I'll fill my gas tank with my gummernt eekomonics stim'lus cheque,
Reply