Small Town Newspapers...

My local newspaper is a GREAT source of entertainment for me. Especially the Classified Ads section.

For instance, today I read an ad for someone wishing to sell a "Bubble bath spa to go in your bathtub". Well, where else would you put it? But what really intrigued me was the next line: "Has a remote control". Hmmmm....WHY?? Do some folks just fire it up & watch the bubbles from the hallway??

Then there's the ads for puppies. Today's paper boasts NINETEEN of those "FREE" puppy ads!! And in all 19 ads, the puppies are "part" this and "part" that. Some ads like to use the term "mixed breed"...which, loosely translated means....they don't have a clue who the "daddy" is! So if you get one of these pups, it's a crapshoot as to how big that dog will be when full grown. I KNOW we have animal clinics & veterinary services, even in THIS neck of the woods. DID ANYONE EVER CONSIDER SPAY & NEUTER??
My gosh, though, if folks were to begin "altering" their animals, the news paper's Classified section would shrink by nearly a whole page! Can't let THAT happen!!

And this one was very interesting...FISH DAY at the local county co-op. You can buy fish in lots of 100...I guess to stock your pond...but you have to "bring your own barrel with water". But, how do you know that some of these fish aren't being served up at the local restaurant, (who, by the way, just happens to be running a concurrent ad about their special on a Catfish Dinner for $6.95??) Not that there's anything wrong with that, you understand, except that we KNOW what they paid, PER HUNDRED, for those catfish! Seems the restaurant will be making a handsome profit with this one!

Then there's the plethora of 4 wheelers (ATV's to us cityfolk!), tractors, and tractor parts. I've even just recently learned what a "hay spear" is!! That's been a real revelation! Ya know those big round bales of hay? Yeah, you see them lined up in pastures on your drive through the countryside on Sunday's. Well, farmers have a special attachment that affixes to the front of their tractor, called a Hay Spear. It's just a long steel pole with a point on the end. The farmer literally SPEARS the haybale. He can then transport it to where ever he wants it. Quite interesting to watch.

It occurred to me that I'd like to see Hay Spear Jousting!! John Deere vs. Massey-Ferguson!! I KNOW the locals would really get into it!! Heck, they could make it a 'staple event' in the annual HogWoller Festival! Oh, I could really expound on this, but seem to be going off on a tangent again.

I'll just end by saying...We never saw these kinds of ads in the city!!