Levittown is for hicks?

So today was the day to start my marathon training. I got home a little late from work, but still was planning on going for a 10 miler. For some reason, I couldn't find my knee brace... but I don't really need the knee brace all the time, so I was gonna continue on without it. Then I could only find one of my running gloves. My watch was no where to be found. My pedometer... gone. Now, I'm not a superstitious fellow, but I sure as hell know a few signs when I see them. So I decided to postpone the training for one day, I can tweak the program for this one day, no worries. I did get a quick mile in, so the streak is in tact.

I'm convinced that the Tri County Flea Market in Levittown is the biggest waste of space on Long Island. Maybe even in the world. I went there yesterday to get a replacement cell phone charger. Now, if you need a replacement phone charger, Tri County is a fine place. They sell any charger for 15 bucks flat. But as I was walking around, I noticed that beyond phone chargers, they don't have much else to offer. There are about 12 different places to get your face put on t shirt, and those some places still sell Big Johnson T shirts. There are also 4 or 5 different Korean men selling Fila's, and another 5 Korean men selling hats. There's a redneck selling knives, and another redneck selling socks. And god bless her soul, there is still a woman selling pickles, and only pickles.

Even more surprising than the amount of crap they are selling at Tri County was the calliber of the people buying it. As I looked around, I noticed that the Levittown i grew up was slowly becoming the Levittown that would be in, umm, Texas. Everywhere I looked, there were families of hicks, hillbillies,common white trash if you will. Nascar jackets were everywhere. Fathers and sons with matching rat-tails, mothers and daughters with matching legwarmers (and not the trendy Hollister kind). Men and Women wearing The Rock T shirts were buying the aforementioned Big Johnson T shirts.

While I refuse to accept that my beloved Levittown is becoming Lubbock, I will tell you that Long Island as a whole is slowly becoming more and more "urbanly challenged." I don't know if it's because I grew up in sheltered Nassau County and was rarely exposed to the boondocks of Suffolk, but ever since moving to East Northport, I've noticed that the redneck population is rising on Long Island for sure. Going to the Wal Mart in Commack, which is a lot like Levittown, is amazing. You can't move your shopping cart 5 feet without hitting an obese redneck woman in a motorized scooter with 3 boxes of corn dogs on her lap.

A few weeks back, I went to a bar callled Matty T's Roadhouse. It calls itself "Long Island's only true country bar" or something like that. Coincidentally ,it's also in Commack. They have a mechanical bull sometimes, which is rad as hell, but they also have line dancing almost every night of the week. On the Saturday we went, there were probably 200 hicks line dancing like I've never seen before. Equipped with 10 gallon hats and spurs on their boots, these people were dancing up a choreographed storm. It was truly a sight to be seen. I had no idea such a population even existed on Long Island, but they were there in full force.

Now let it be known, Sean is all for diversity on Long Island. But I fear that we are heading in the wrong direction. I think Long Island needs less rednecks, and more Australians, and preferably more woman from Sweeden.