It would be too easy to have fun with that list of 76, but why be cynical on this hot, too hot, summer day. Anyone know how to add AC to a bicycle, that could be 77. Here's my list.
http://www.usmessageboard.com/writing/126242-an-american-life.html#post2547091
My mom often told us stories of the great depression and when we only had stale bread and coffee to dunk it in, she would remind us that they had nothing so stop your bitching. But oddly maybe it is dopamine but I have always felt life was good and work would eventually bring us some of the good things. But does it matter that we live in America, could a savage be just as happy or a Iranian or an Iraqi? When people claim some particular ideology is best, they forget people do not live in ideology, they live in communities.
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Uniquely American - In no particular order
The Amish living peacefully in their way
A smoke filled diner on a busy street filled with calloused hands
A tractor trailer passing a Chevy at 75 in the middle of the night along 95
A USO bus in a hot Florida city windows open
A bicycle all decked out in red white and blue on the fourth with a girlÂ’s large smile
A bum helped in from cold by a child who noticed
Volunteers signing up to help
The patience of visitors to our national treasures hot with child hanging on them in awe of it all
The Salvation Army taking a family lost for a moment and helping them along
A tall church steeple on a dirt road with little sign of anything else
A V8 engine with four barrel and no muffler filled with a bunch of kids looking cool going too fast
A worker staying late to tutor another
StuckeyÂ’s surprise packages promised to the kids to keep them quiet till the next destination
A big MAC, KFC, Dunkin donuts, drive throughs
Cruising a BobÂ’s Big Boy
The open road riding shotgun enjoying the view
Barbecue and beer and softball
Sweating / freezing at the edge of your seat screaming 'defense'
Friday dances where you only stood and the girls danced
Revving the engine and racing off the line as the light changes
Corn fields upon corn fields upon corn fields
Commencements and jobs and getting up at five
April 15th
It seems to me that the uniquely American things are the small things that sometimes go unnoticed.
First gay leading man.
