But it wasn't funny back then!

Everyone is familiar with the email forward. Randomly, they can be awesome, hilarious, weird, revolting ... one I got today, though, sent me packing down Repressed Memory Lane. The email was a Larry the Cable Guy commentary on folks from Missouri (which I'm sure has been packaged and re-packaged to fit whatever state it's being routed through). Here's part of it:
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If you have gone from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again you
live in Missouri.

If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard
without flinching, you live in Missouri.

If you install security lights on your house and garage, but leave both
unlocked, you live in Missouri.

If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit, you
live in Missouri.
*****

ALL of which are uncannily true. But wow, that last one, talk about hitting a nerve. It's not a joke, people! Picture this: a 7-year-old blonde girl all set to go out as beautiful, pristine Snow White. Store-bought costume, full-face plastic molded mask with raven black hair and red bow included. How lovely!

Oh wait, it's FRIGID outside. Wind blowing, snow on the ground, stupid-cold.

Now picture a lumpy, and therefore frumpy, Snow White.

Yep, when I had to put my costume on OVER my snowsuit, I instantly became the ugly stepsister- at least I thought so. Oh, miserable! If I could've had my way, I know 100% that I would've risked freezing to death to NOT wear that lumpy snowsuit out trick-or-treating.

But I wanted one of Tara's grandma's famous caramel popcorn balls real bad. So although I was decidedly unhappy about it, lumpy Snow White went to town with her plastic pumpkin treat basket. :) The popcorn ball was well worth it.

Thanks for that trip, Mr. the Cable Guy.