I better stop with the political shit I've been writing, as BAAL accused me of being a racist. I don't want to piss him off, or he'll quit paying me child support. Then where would I be? Quite a few bottles of chardonnay short a month. :)
When I lived in San Diego, there was one thing I really missed from Kentucky. That was lightning bugs. In fact, I spend an inordinate amount of time in the yard catching them in the evening. When I was in San Diego, I was talking to these chicks from Vietnam once, and I asked them did they have lightning bugs there. They did not recognize the term. I then described a lightning bug/firefly. I said, "They are bugs that their ass lights up and you catch them and put them in a jar with holes in the top..." A brief look of horror appeared on the Vietnamese chicks' faces followed by a brief discussion in Vietnamese. Then one of the girls said "Those are sacred in Vietnam, we don't catch them and put them in a jar". I thought, welcome to the United States, we put everything in a jar or bottle, usually plastic. Give me convenience or give me death - Dead Kennedys.