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even though I see the the grossness in squashing the toad -- I still think it is dam funny. i wish i were there to have seen it.
most towns in upstate ny that i have been in are depressing and sad -- Gloversville, Northville, Wells, Broadalbin, Johnstown, Schectedy(spelling???), Scotia, Glens Falls and Amersterdam which are all located up near Albany (including parts of Albany too now that I think about it). Full of dough faces. Also more ethnic faces are moving into these towns - specifically Scotia and Amersterdam.
I have been spending my summers up in these areas since I was about 4 years old on Lake Sacandaga and have watched these towns go from beautiful quaint towns to falling down dumps. When I was a teenager and we would go and 'hang out' in the town -- I was actually afraid that someone would beat me up if they found out I was from NYC.
The Northville 4th of July activities are actually advertised as the "Doins'" and the parade sidelines are full of teenagers with babies with male partners with dirty shorts, rip tees and a cig hanging out of their face. I have seen pregnant women standing on the sidelines smoking too, while yelling and cussing at their dirty kids. I do not let my kids on the rides at this towns fair -- my nieces actually got grease dripped on them on one while having the dregs of society (the men that run the rides) leering at them through a smoky cloud and smiling with missing teeth.
I dont know why people just stay there through every generation -- even I wanted to get out my home town of Glendale, Queens. I go back to visit my Mom and it is like a different world now -- and I still see so many of the same faces there. Married and divorced to people we went to school with. I never could see why anyone would just want to stay where they were born and raised -- not ever leaving. At least move a neighborhood over or something! I do know quite a few people that have never even left the tristate area at all their whole lives.
And upon hearing this show I really thought about how I look at them and I do have to say that I do feel like I am better than them.
It sounds so horrible to type out and admit but it is true. I never finished college, my husband works a city job, i stay home with my kids who are rowdy and crazy, we drive used cars, we live in tiny house that needs so much work, we drink beer out on our deck, we have campfires in our yard next to the tent that my stepson sleeps in -- so I am not some hoity toity fairfield county living snob but I do feel superior to these small town minded folks. oh wells.
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