Ok............... so I was doing my morning thing, drinking coffee and reading the news on msn. Flipped over to the local news to see what kind of things people where I now reside are doing. Usually the news here is quite dull but not today!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There was this story, about what looked like a nice young man named Darryl Ellis who was shot a year ago and they didn't have any suspects.
He didn;t seem like one of those typical crack head ghetto types, just a nice decent man and his family was still looking for justice. From what I gathered, it was a real tragedy.
And then it got weird.
Ok, so I live in the south now, and granted, they have some different traditions. I respect traditions. That's cool.
But this....well......................
The family and friends of the before mentioned Darryl decided........... as a memorial on the anniversary of his death....to remember this poor dude....................
THE DARRYL ELLIS MEMORIAL COOKOUT.
Yes you read that right, they honored him by roasting weenies.
WTF????????
Is this some kinda fucked up southern tradition?
I can see it now, bunch a people standing around a keg eating a dawg and shaking their heads, saying " Poor Darryl thats fucked up how he died."
again
WTF????????????
MEMORIAL COOKOUT.
When I die, I dont want a big to do, and a year later, maybe perhaps think of me and smile but for fuck's sake if any of you fuckers have a WEENIE ROAST in my honor. I swear to god, I will come back and haunt your ass for that!
Oh yeah, one other thing they did, was have a candlelight vigil. My best guess is they all let their marshmellows flame up and burn brightly in unison and had a moment of reflection about Darryl while gazing into dripping burning marshmellow fluffiness.
Welcome to the south, where they honor your passing by charring dead flesh over open flame, preferably with BBQ sauce.
Gotta love it.
