You Sure Got A Perdy Mouth

This past weekend, a friend of mine and myself were searching for entertainment during the dreary, rain-soaked Saturday. What came to the rescue? The gunshow at the local convention center.

That's right, boys and girls, we strapped on our plastic mullets, chugged a Budweiser, punched our wives in the face, and mosied on down to the gun show. Yee haw.

It wasn't what I quite expected. I really wanted to see toothless yokels and bikers sluts. Much to my shagrin, there was only one biker slut, and the missing teeth department was rather lacking. (No pun intended) There were, however, some rather odd and sometimes frightening scenes.

Some event goers who were too, uh, thrifty to rent a table just toted around guns on their backs with signs and price tags sticking out of the barrel. How is that legal? Can you imagine walking around the local Walmart (I'm sure some of these people have tried) toting an AK 47 that has a sign poking out of the barrel reading, "Like new! Al peises work in good!"? No, you can't. It must be witnessed.

Also, there was a group of Let's Play Civil War types. Fat, dirty middle aged men in rented Civil War uniforms all standing around trying to act authentic while drinking a can of Bud and talking in a cell phone. Huzzah for accuracy! Speaking of Bud; they were, in fact, serving beer at this function. Beer, red necks, guns, and ammo? Not good.

There were a few outstanding sights I might add. I snapped a picture of the sign below:

Can you imagine some poor kid, sitting in the stands bored out of his mind, playing with a laser pointer? All the sudden, one of the "vendors" spots a dot on his chest. He screams, "Yee yaaaw! It's Charlie!" flips his table over, leaps behind it, and starts pumping 50 cal rounds into the stands.

I also saw an old man, sitting at a table, actually making bullets. What makes this site fall beyond words was as he did this, he wore a baseball cap. On this cap, it inquired "Got Bullets?". I tried, without success, to get a picture of that was well. It was a site to be seen.

All in all, it was entertaining. Not what I expected, but still entertaining. I say, if one comes to your town, grab your camera and giddy up.