Pick o' the Day: The Movie Avatar is Anti-American! Part 1

     Okay, so we got this hankerin' to see a movie, so I fired up the old truck and headed over to Elgin (El - hard g - in) figurin' I could pick up one of them DeeVeeDees at Blockbuster.  I was makin' good time considerin' the truck was still loaded down with about 10 bales of hay (I thought I told the little wife to unload it the day before -- guess I'll have to get on her about that) when I see this sign alongside the road pointin' me to a yard sale.  I thought it couldn't hurt to check it out (you never know when you might come across some old tools) and dam-near lost the whole load when I took the turn a bit too fast and almost ended up in the ditch.   But I self-corrected in time, and before I knew it, I was stopped in front of some old lady's house.  My normal high spirits took a bit of a nose-dive when I saw that her yard sale looked a bit heavy on women's clothes, purses, children's junk, and knick-knacks.  Good luck finding some tools there, I thought.  I didn't even bother to get out of the truck, just jammed it into first and tore off in a cloud of dust.
     So now I get to comin' into Elgin, and what do I see but that big old Southside Barbeque sign just a beggin' me to stop and sit a spell.  I was in no particular rush, so I pulled in, and in no time at all I was sittin' there in front of a beautiful plate of sliced brisket and tater salad and sippin' on a glass of lemonade (they give you free refills on the lemonade, so it's a pretty good deal).  About a hour later, I'm walkin' out the door feelin' pretty much satisfied, but I felt like I needed somethin' else to to top it all off.  Lo and behold, there was a Dairy Queen right next door beckonin' me to come over and have a little ice cream and whatnot.  So, I finally get out of there feelin' pretty good and I remembered where I was originally headed, so I climbed back into the truck and got back on the road.  Before I knew it, I was pullin' into Blockbuster's parkin' lot (it wasn't no more'n a hop, skip, and a jump from  Dairy Queen).  And wouldn't you know it... it was closed.  Not just closed, but closed for good.  Out of business.  Shoot!  What's this world a comin' too?  It was probably the work of the Tallyban or something, you never know.
     So I sat there in the truck a thinkin' about what I'm goin' to do.  Since I keep pretty current on things, I remembered something about a big red box rentin' movies for just a buck a day over at McDonalds.  Course, that was about 20 miles the other way over in the outskirts of Austin.  Shoot!  Oh well, what else I got to do?  I can't go home empty-handed, cause then I'd have to face the wrath of the little lady.  Speaking of which, I thought I had better stop by at H-E-B and get her some of that cheddar cheese popcorn she likes when she sees a movie.  So before long, I was headed back towards Austin.

END OF PART ONE

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