Yes, you read that correctly. I’m in Peculiar MO, at the Peculiar Park Place RV Park adjacent to US71 south of Kansas City. The name is real, you could look it up. In fact, last night I saw a police cruiser pass through the CG. Yes, folks, that’s correct . . . the Peculiar Police. It’s a wonder they didn’t stop in to check on me.
A unique reference on the local news here is when the discuss some occurrence in KCK or KCMO. Get it?!? Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. I was at a loss initially until I listened a little closer to hear what it was that they were saying.
Now that I have left the south, I would like to touch on a curious southern habit . . .
The Finger!
No, not that finger. I get that finger in Fort Myers all the time. I usually earn it in some way.
When traveling in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas and passing an oncoming vehicle on two lane roads and service drives, I would almost always get the finger greeting. Right or left hand placed at twelve o’clock on the steering wheel, index finger raised in greeting as in howdy, hey, or as they say in Alabama, ‘How are yoouuuuuuu?’
Even got the finger from a local Sheriff after stopping for gas in SW Missouri.
A very friendly greeting from some very friendly folks, indeed. So here is a finger for you all back home . . . .