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My name rhymes with "Lisa," I live in Midland, Texas, because it's warm and the mortgage is cheap, and of course this is my natural hair color. Of course! The EGE--The Ever-Gorgeous Earl--is my husband of 35 years. I have the best job in the world because I get to call up artists and ask them nosy questions and then write about them. I also stitch, podcast, blog, and then, in my spare time, do it all some more.

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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Los Cojones Grandes

So we were walking through The Dreaded Wal-Mart today, and—I know, I know:  anything that happens at The Wal-Mart is my own damn fault, right? For even going there. But I have My Reasons. More about which later, I hope. But today:
We’re walking through, on our way out, and behind me I hear someone rapping. As in:  making up rhymes in a loud and obnoxiously  atonal sort of way, mangling the language and the grammar but feeling all butch. And the rap is about how Orange Hair is Only for Clowns.  And I’m all like, “Hey. They’re rapping about my hair!” Which is flattering, if you think about it, but also kind of odd.
Cause, you know:  most kids who are young enough to want to be rude to adults in public are also young enough to be pretty much intimidated by someone whose level of Apparent Coolness so far, far exceeds their own, never mind how mightily they might try to convince themselves otherwise. I mean, really:  I have the tattoos their parents won’t let them get. Oh, sure:  I don’t have any skulls or daggers or nekkid people, but I do have a rose (big prison fav!) and a snake (ooooooh!). Plus I have the female version of cojones that allows me to walk around in public looking like, uh, well:  not like their grandmother. Which is what they feel most comfortable with us looking like, you know? People of a Certain Age are best if easily pegged:  paunchy, high-waisted high-water pants, big-ass glasses, some high percentage of polyester. That depressed, Resigned to Life shuffle.

You know.
But these guys! They had the cojones to rap me out. Right there in The Wal-Mart! Whooza. I was going to turn around to see who it might have been (black? white? hispanic? gang tattoos? mohawks?), but I was afraid I’d see the human version of Candy the Squirrel’s Bad Boyfriend.
Candy is occasionally followed by this male squirrel who has—omigod!—the most proportionately gigantinormous testicles you have ever imagined on any one creature in your entire life. These things are the size of golf balls, I kid you not.  Which means they’re roughly the size of his HEAD. They’re giant, and they’re obscene (think:  squirrel nuts, and think about how testicles, no matter how you love The Male Parts, are just not (I am so sorry) the most attractive anatomical feature of any species), and they seem to weigh him down to a pathetic degree. It’s like he’s dragging around the whole Squirrel Legacy back there.
I did not want to see that in human form, OK? Cojones enough to rap about my hair = cojones enough to take away my appetite for the next, oh, several eons, because, y’all, I was imagining someone following behind me, rapping about my clown hair, pushing his big ol’ hairy nuts in a wheelbarrow through The Wal-Mart.
Oy.

20 comments:

Anita said...

I dont understand what kind of mental damage people have to have to make fun of others in public. I would imagine that people would be to intimidated to make fun of you, or at least I would be. Then again I would imagine my tattoos would say dont come up and start a conversation with me, but I was wrong about that as well.

The other day in 7-11 the guy behind me was singing Buddy Holly songs to me. Presumably because of my glasses. The fact that I was wearing all stars with my jeans rolled up at the bottom probably wasn't helping my case any. This was more out of necessity than fashion since the legs are too long on me. After I left I started thinking about how flattering that was, since Buddy Holly is awesome.

Caity said...

bwaaaa haaaa haaaa! Rat's testicles are bad too.

But - kinda cool to get rapped about!

An Altered Life said...

I will forever have mighty squirrel nuts embeded in my brain as I schlep through Walmart. Thanks for that, it will take away some of my guilt for being there in the first place :) And clowns should be so lucky to have such fine orange hair!

Warty Mammal said...

Dear god. I just gave the dreaded snort laugh. It's your fault.

Jazz said...

Ok, that last mental image, the wheelbarrow, the hairy balls... I so did not need that in my head this morning at 9:00. *shudder*

Tristan Robin Blakeman said...

http://media.photobucket.com/image/giant%20squirrel%20balls/fluffy_the_cactus/FarkSquirrel.jpg

mo said...

i don't know which is funnier (besides rice's story, of course): the pic tristan posted the link to, or the link above that pic that says "see more giant squirrel pictures". that definitely brought out an early morning snort ;)

mo said...

oops, that should have read:
"see more giant squirrel balls pictures"

sigh

Ricë said...

omigod. tristan, aren't you supposed to be saving the world or something? you have work to do, man! get busy! quit torturing us here! Candy the Squirrel is so cute in every way; it's hard to believe her boyfriend is EVEN WORSE than this--

Holly said...

In high school I had a friend who had a white cat named Vanilla. Vanilla had a blackish brown scrotum. Nature is funny.

I think it's interesting how fine the line is between rapping in Wal*Mart and screaming "The End is Near!" on a street corner.

Jo said...

Ha ha! Only you could take someone rapping about orange hair and turn it into a story about squirrel balls. And so seamlessly too! The best thing would be if that person or persons would read about it on this blog. Oh, never mind, they probably can't read anyway.

Ricë said...

buddy holly IS awesome (and if you ever make it to lubbock, texas, be sure to go to the Buddy Holly Museum), and i just hope the guy didn't mangle the music and managed to work in "Peggy Sue" for you.

Ricë said...

rat testicles. shame on you for putting that in my head.

The Journey said...

Ok so I want to know what the brat looked like. I'd turned around and gave them a smart comment. I see some pretty bad stuff- so I figure the world can take me as I am even on a bad day. You are just too funny. squirrels .....

Ricë said...

turns out that my husband DID turn around and look (i didn't know)--he was going to say something until he saw it was a fat kid WITH HIS MOTHER and little sister. yeah: fat little white kid whose mother didn't think a thing about her kid being an asshole.

that explains public education, right there.

Anita said...

I love the Buddy Holly museum. I found it very easy to find, it was the grave site and the statue I had a hard time locating. Peggy Sue would have been awesome but I am guessing it wasnt in the set list, just that will be the day.

BloggingQueen said...

I imagined the guy wearing some sort of longjohns with a flap for the cojones and attached wheelbarrow. Since I'm caring for a person whose pants snap up and down the inseam, I think about this kind of logistical question.

But seeing it was a kid who was a typical-WM-shopper-in-training... well.

Jaime Haney aka ArtsyFartsy.Me said...

I am now having to wipe tea off my keyboard and monitor after it being propelled from my nose while reading your post! You are a complete riot. And so insightful, I loved it!

Tecu'Mish said...

I wonder if its the big balls that Candy finds attractive about her boyfriend....like maybe she thinks she's got herself a real catch!

Dede said...

I had never tied Foamy to WM before, now that's a new perspective!

How About a Little Music?