When Did I Become THAT Guy?

While out to dinner with TG not that long ago, I realized that we'd both become THAT guy. The guy who, despite being out to dinner with friends, is constantly texting/emailing on his Blackberry. I admit it. I'm now 100% addicted. I actually called us on it, wondering what we ever did before having mobile devices, and his response in a smartass way- "we actually had to talk to the people we were having dinner with." TG was a navy brat while growing up, but is truly a southerner. He says Please and thank you and Ma'am. He knows that Sunday Dinner is actually after Sunday Service at 2pm and has fried chicken. To see this transformation is something.

Growing up in the 'burbs outside NYC, this is all foreign to me. Sundays were for playing soccer. I would go to mass when I could, and my family changed churches to one that had a more convenient mass time. Through work, I have been able to see this "True America". To see all the small towns throughout the country really puts things in perspective. Hank Williams Jr. says that the world is really run from NY, and he's right. NY is the most powerful city in the world. To me, nothing really shows power as that NYC skyline. No other city I've been to can compare.

It is the people in these small towns though that allow NY to be so great. At times, I envy them. At others, I pitty them. I lived in a small rural town with C for almost 3 years, and couldn't stand it. I think that was a major factor in the break up. Small town America does it right though. Regardless of your stance on the war, in general it is people from here that are out there fighting it. It is people from small town America that are growing crops, raising cattle to support the country. While world is run from New York, New York needs the rest of the country to support it.