1. Old men let go of their inhibitions and mow their lawns in blue jean cut-off shorts, tennis shoes, and nothing else.
2. People spend hundreds of dollars to watch lights explode in the sky.
3. Entire towns crowd on to a couple of city blocks to see poorly decorated hay wagons.
Now when you take each of these things down to the basic truths about them they don't make sense, however I believe that each has a redeeming factor.
1. The old man gets a no tan lines, so when he hits the bingo hall later he's ready to go.
2. Fireworks provides a way for whole families and even communities to do something together - in America we choose something that involved blowing things up.
3. Parades have free candy... that's it.
When we don't understand things its easy to judge them. Since we have moved to a new culture we constantly see new things, things that we don't understand. It's our choice whether we embrace them or make fun of them. (Honestly, I have been known to do both simultaneously.) The moral of this blog is not to judge a book by it's cover - or an old man by the length of his daisy dukes.
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