Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Guns n trucks

Last week, the annual NRA Convention was in my home state. It was a big deal. Mostly because of the projected attendance numbers...80,000 expected! That's A LOT of people. It was held just a block over from where I work, so I took that Friday off. I'm not  a fan of that many people OR traffic like that! 

I have a cousin who is a gun maker though, so we kind of had to go. OK, I kind of had to go. My fella was happy to go :-) Honestly, it wasn't bad. I mean really, if your a gun enthusiast, how cool is it to be able to go to one place and see it all?!?!?!?!?!! 

The thing that really cracked me up though? I'll tell you...everyday I park in the State parking garage, for State employees. It's not open to the public Mon - Fri from 5:00am to 5:00pm. During business hours it's filled with sedans and SUV's. Some mini vans and some trucks. Lot's of motorcycles in the summer. But the weekend of the NRA??? 90% pick up trucks!! When we pulled in to park, I laughed for 5 minutes. The whole entire garage, level after level was filled with pick ups! Funniest thing ever. I didn't know that owning a truck was a prerequisite to owning a firearm! Oh, but only if you're white. That was the other funny thing to me, not a lot of diversity at an NRA convention. How ironic.

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