Just Another Hayneville Labor Day Weekend

[Gita]

The Hayneville Tool and Die plant closed for a half day on Friday to give workers a jump start on Labor Day festivities. Shop foreman Coy Collander locked up, washed his hands and face at the outdoor spigot, then drove to Biloxi to enjoy three days of free casino drinks and the company of a widow woman from Hattiesburg.

Bootsy Sykes had to stop his overheating pickup truck twice on the way home and suddenly the idea hit him that, dang,  Hayneville Motors was having a special on Chevy Silverados and he, Bootsy, had labored hard all year and by gawd deserved a new ride.

Hoot Shiner also, on his way home, called his lovely bride Temerity for her grocery list and stopped at the Piggly Wiggly to buy a Boston butt, liquid smoke, a sack of Yukon Golds and a box of pink wine.

Stump Shiner picked up Charlene at her beauty shop, noticed a pale, wizened man dressed in black with what appeared to be a fresh perm (?) and drove to have dinner with Char's mama, Big Ruby, whose succulent standing rib beef roast should have been declared  illegal if not unholy.

The Grim Reaper steered his Cadillac Eldorado hearse slowly through the evening streets, windows down, curls shaking slightly in the breeze, anticipating that somewhere due west, a rich cattleman pharmaceutical salesman and an oil lobbyist driving home from Tampa in identical E-series Mercedes were destined to collide at an intersection where Tropical Storm Isaac had blown down the stoplights, and Grimmy would collect them to meet his August quota.

 

[bolton carley]

come on, i sure don't like it when he gets a cattleman.  just sayin'.  as for the piece itself, you sure do bring the shiners to life!  love these people.

[Gita]

They tried calling it an "ephemeral" but that sounded too much like a medical procedure.

[Mike Handley]

Grimmy drives a Caddy? Sigh. I pegged him for a Lincoln man. And why DO they call it a permanent anyway, when it's ephemeral?

[Dude A Bydes]

I guess that's no country for those old men... sardonic and clever, Gita. -Dude

[Sandra Davies]

@ Gita - I'm only interested if you deliver it in person, in Haynesville.   Then I'll gladly pay the price.   Until then I'll stick with the magic, thank you very much.

[Gita]

@Sandra: I can provide a Shiner glossary (for a price) if need be.

[Sandra Davies]

So full of foreign-ness for this Brit which adds to the magic and the poetry (like listening to opera in Italian).   A pause in time, a lovely updating of Shiner life.

(and just yesterday I listened to Robert Plant singing 'Shining in the light')

[Toby Tucker Hecht]

I hope Grimmy doesn't pick up hitchhikers on the way.  This is super creepy and good.

[Robert Crisman]

Well, that's a couple of them out of the way...