A week or so ago (in our area) a small plane went down in the water and killed everyone on board. It was maybe a 8 passenger turbo prop. Onboard was 3 or 4 local high school sophomore boys…all best friends. The whole crowd was flying to the outer banks for a weekend duck hunting trip.
It was/is a tragedy. From my understanding they were all nice people and good boys.
The community they’re from is called “down east”. It’s been said their dialect is as close to colonial old English as you can get. They’re mostly good people and I’ve worked with many of them for decades.
They’re extremely clannish and take exception to ANYONE visiting let alone moving there. Anyone not from there is from “off” and there’s derogatory names for the those from “off”.
The whole county, a large portion of the state has rallied around them…as well as contributions from around the country have poured in and one of our local churches from “off” is footing the bill for all 8 funerals. There’s literally hundreds of thousands of dollars being donated to the families…the lions share to the locals boys families.
At face value that’s cool and it is a sad day…. BUT as a cantankerous old man that’s seen many things and doesn’t forget most…except where I sat my dang coffee cup down at… I’ve brought up some things that hasn’t been very popular… much like Christmas spirit that abruptly ends December 26th every year and the general population goes back to being nasty to everyone for approximately 11 months.
Those folks don’t want anyone visiting, moving there or meddling in their business at all…period and are very nasty about it in newspaper editorials, coffee shop conversations, basically everywhere all the time.
Ok in comes captain a-hole (as my ex wife calls me).
I brought up the fact that the down east community is accepting these donations with open arms because their little angels (insert boohoos) we’re killed…but come memorial day when the tourists are flocking here spending hundreds of millions of dollars…the same locals will be cursing them with extreme prejudice.
The very same after hurricanes…they don’t want anyone down there until they have all their waterlogged crap piled on the side of road stinking…they’re on the news boohooing “we need help sniff sniff boohoo” … you outta see your tax dollars spent… fema money to put $30k worth of masonry work up under a $10k trailer to lift it above the flood levels.
The out of town electric folks and tree cutters work their butts off after hurricanes to restore power. We have been out of power for weeks before. The down east locals would curse them if the same folks came here on vacation with their families.
I find human nature perplexing, interesting and mostly disturbing.
It was/is a tragedy. From my understanding they were all nice people and good boys.
The community they’re from is called “down east”. It’s been said their dialect is as close to colonial old English as you can get. They’re mostly good people and I’ve worked with many of them for decades.
They’re extremely clannish and take exception to ANYONE visiting let alone moving there. Anyone not from there is from “off” and there’s derogatory names for the those from “off”.
The whole county, a large portion of the state has rallied around them…as well as contributions from around the country have poured in and one of our local churches from “off” is footing the bill for all 8 funerals. There’s literally hundreds of thousands of dollars being donated to the families…the lions share to the locals boys families.
At face value that’s cool and it is a sad day…. BUT as a cantankerous old man that’s seen many things and doesn’t forget most…except where I sat my dang coffee cup down at… I’ve brought up some things that hasn’t been very popular… much like Christmas spirit that abruptly ends December 26th every year and the general population goes back to being nasty to everyone for approximately 11 months.
Those folks don’t want anyone visiting, moving there or meddling in their business at all…period and are very nasty about it in newspaper editorials, coffee shop conversations, basically everywhere all the time.
Ok in comes captain a-hole (as my ex wife calls me).
I brought up the fact that the down east community is accepting these donations with open arms because their little angels (insert boohoos) we’re killed…but come memorial day when the tourists are flocking here spending hundreds of millions of dollars…the same locals will be cursing them with extreme prejudice.
The very same after hurricanes…they don’t want anyone down there until they have all their waterlogged crap piled on the side of road stinking…they’re on the news boohooing “we need help sniff sniff boohoo” … you outta see your tax dollars spent… fema money to put $30k worth of masonry work up under a $10k trailer to lift it above the flood levels.
The out of town electric folks and tree cutters work their butts off after hurricanes to restore power. We have been out of power for weeks before. The down east locals would curse them if the same folks came here on vacation with their families.
I find human nature perplexing, interesting and mostly disturbing.
