The following is a true story written by a friend of mine(it's kinda long) but it will answer your question kinda.
THE STORY OF THE ORIGINAL HOT PANTS
ONCE UPON A TIME, WAY BACK IN THE 1990’S, TWO OL BOYS WERE HUNTING IN THE COLORADO MOUNTAINS. IT WAS A WINTERY DAY AND PRETTY CHILLY OUT, HOWEVER, THE SKY WAS CLEAR AND THE SUN WAS SHINING DOWN, BLESSING ALL WITH ITS TOUCH. AFTER AN UNSUCCESSFUL MORNING CONSISTING OF MUCH BAD LUCK AND WASTED EXERTION, THEY FELL HUNGRY AND DECIDED TO GO BACK TO THE PICKUP TRUCK TO FEED. NOW THIS WAS THE GET-STUCK-EVERY-TIME-YOU-DRIVE-IT-ANYWHERE-4X4-PICKUP TRUCK, BUT THAT IS ANOTHER STORY. ONE OF THE OL BOYS WAS RECENTLY FROM OKLAHOMA AND POPULARLY CALLED “OKIE” AND WAS BOISTERIOUS AND EXTRAVERTED AND WAS THEREFORE DELCARED TO BE A LITTLE TAINTED, TO SAY THE LEAST, AND THE OTHER OL BOY HADN'T BEEN BACK TO OKLAHOMA IN SO LONG THAT HE DIDN'T HARDLY HAVE ANY TAINT LEFT ON HIM AND HAD LOST ALL OF HIS HILLBILLY ACCENT AND WAS SHY AND TIMID AND QUIET AND UNASSUMING AROUND PEOPLE, SO THEY CALLED HIM “UN-OKIE”. NOW, FOR LUNCH, THEY HAD BOTH BROUGHT A BOX OF AUTHENTIC SURPLUS U.S. ARMY MRE'S, (BETTER KNOWN AS: MEALS, READY TO EAT), NOT BECAUSE OF THEIR CULINARY PROPERTIES, BUT BECAUSE THEY WERE A SEMI-NOURISHING HOT MEAL, SIMPLE TO PREPARE AND EAT WHILE HUNTING, FISHING, OR JUST PLAIN ENJOYING THE GREAT OUTDOORS. THE BOYS SAT IN THE PICKUP TRUCK PREPARING THEIR MRE’S USING THE HEATERS INCLUDED IN EACH FOOD PACKAGE. IF YOU HAVE NEVER USED THESE MODERN MARVELS, LET ME EXPLAIN HOW THEY WORK. IN THE MRE BOX, YOU GET A LITTLE FLAT PACKAGE THAT YOU TEAR THE TOP OFF AND POUR IN A MEASURED AMOUNT OF WATER. YOU FOLD THE TOP OVER ON ITSELF AND IT BEGINS A CHEMICAL REACTION - VIOLA- IT HEATS ITSELF UP. YOU PLACE THIS PACKET INSIDE THE SMALL BOX WITH YOUR ENTREE AND IT HEATS UP THE FOOD. THIS WHOLE PROCESS TAKES 3, 4, OR 5 MINUTES, BUT SOMETIMES THESE HEATERS WON’T WORK, SO YOU JUST DISCARD THEM AND GET ANOTHER ONE GOING. WELL, THE OKIE BOY TEARS THE TOP OFF HIS HEATER, POURS THE WATER IN, AND WAITS TO SEE IF IT IS GOING TO WORK. MEANWHILE, AS THE ENTREE IS HEATING, YOU HAVE TIME TO PREPARE THE REST OF YOUR MEAL, TEARING OPEN THE SMALL PACKAGES OF CONDIMENTS, ETC. SITTING IN THE PICKUP TRUCK, GETTING THEIR MEAL SPREAD OUT, THEY USED UP ALL OF THE SMALL SPACE ALLOTTED EACH OTHER.
THE UN-OKIE, WISE IN THE WAYS OF THE OUTDOORS, HAD HANDILY AND EASILY PREPARED HIS HEATER AND SITUATED HIS LUNCH. ALL OF A SUDDEN OUT OF THE CLEAR BLUE SKY (AND TO THE VAST SURPRISE OF THE UN-OKIE, AS HE WAS BUSY GAWKING AT THE LANDSCAPE AND PREOCCUPIED WITH THE QUIETRY OF THE MOMENT AND HIS THOUGHTS), THE OKIE LOUDLY AND BOLDLY EXCLAIMED (MALICIOUSLY AND WITHOUT CANDOR) “THIS (EXPLICITIVE) HEATER DOESN’T WORK, I SHALL JUST HAVE TO PREPARE MYSELF ANOTHER (EXPLICITIVE) ONE”.
SUBSEQUENTLY, THE OKIE, INSTEAD OF PROPERLY DISCARDING THE OLD, NON-WORKING HEATER (BECAUSE HE ALREADY HAD HIS LUNCH SPREAD OUT EVERYWHERE, AS PREVIOUSLY DESCRIBED) HE CARELESSLY AND WITHOUT USING EVEN A SLIVER OF GOD GIVEN, EVERYONE’S BORN WITH, GREY BRAINMATTER, PLACED THE NON-WORKER ON THE SEAT BESIDE HIS LEG. HE THEN RUMMAGED AROUND AND FOUND ANOTHER HEATER, TORE OFF THE TOP, CAREFULLY MEASURED HIS WATER POUR, AND FOLDED THE TOP OVER ON THE PACKAGE, IMPATIENCE TANGIBLE IN THE CLEAR MOUNTAIN AIR. AFTER THE INITIAL SHOCK AND SCARE ANTICS OF THE OKIE, THE NON-OKIE SETTLED DOWN AND WAS BUSY ENJOYING HIS DELICIOUS HOT BEENY-WEENIE LUNCH, KEEPING A WATCHFUL HUNTING EYE ON THE BEAUTIFUL COLORADO LANDSCAPE. THE OKIES SECOND HEATER STARTED TO BOIL SO HE PLACED IT IN THE ENTRÉE BOX AND LAID IT ON THE DASHBOARD AND JOINED THE NON-OKIE IN LETHARGICALLY LOLLYGAGGING AND COLLOBORATING THE STORY THEY WOULD TELL THEIR WIVES, CHILDREN, FRIENDS AND CO-WORKERS ABOUT THE BIG ONE THAT GOT AWAY THIS DAY. IT WAS A MORE OR LESS LAZY, UNASSUMING AFTERNOON, QUIET IN THAT SPECIAL WAY THAT ONLY THE HIGH COUNTRY CAN BE, WITH THE WARM SUN BEAMING DOWN AND THE MARMOTS CHIRPING IN THE NEAR DISTANCE. ALL IN ALL, A VERY PLEASANT EXPERIENCE, NOT KNOWN TO MANY CITY FOLK, OR OTHERS NOT ACQUAINTED WITH THE MANY AND VARIED WAYS OF NATURE. ALL OF A SUDDEN THE OKIE JUMPED STRAIGHT UP INTO THE AIR, FOOD FLYING EVERYWHERE AND UNLEASHED A FLURRY OF EXPLETIVES. HE CONTINUED HOPPING UP AND DOWN FOR A WHILE (BETWEEN THE SEAT AND THE ROOF), JERKING AND SLAPPING AT HIS LEG. HE THEN FLUNG OPEN THE DOOR OF THE PICKUP TRUCK AND BEGAN TO SLAP AND PULL AT HIS BRITCHES LEG, ALL THE WHILE YELLING AND CURSING SOMETHING AWFUL.
THE UN-OKIE WAS STARTLED AND VERY MUCH ALARMED AT THIS BEHAVIOR AND READY TO BOLT, UNTIL IT DAWNED ON HIM WHAT HAD HAPPENED, AT WHICH TIME HE SPILLED HIS LUNCH ALL OVER HIS SIDE OF THE PICKUP TRUCK, BENT OVER AND HEAVING IN GREAT FITS OF LAUGHTER. WHAT WITH ALL THE OKIE’S SQUIRMING AND FIDGETING AROUND, THE NON-WORKING HEATER HAD MANAGED TO WEDGE ITSELF UNDER HIS LEG AND HAD COME ALIVE AND THE STEAMING HEAT HAD PENETRATED SEVERAL LAYERS OF CLOTHING AND WAS SCALDING HIS LEG. HE COULDN’T SEEM TO PULL THE HOT CLOTHING OUT FAR ENOUGH FROM HIS LEG TO ESCAPE THE FURY. THIS SPECTACLE LASTED A WHILE, WITH THE OKIE HOPPING AND JUMPING AROUND THE COUNTRYSIDE, LOUDLY SCREAMING AND CURSING, SCARING AND SCATTERING ALL THE WILDLIFE SOMETHING TERRIBLE, AND THE UN-OKIE LAUGHING, SNIGGERING AND GAGGING UNINTELLIGIBILY, SNOT AND TEARS INTERMIXED AND STREAMING DOWN HIS FACE, LUNCH SPILLED AND MASHED TILL IT WAS PICNIC ANT FODDER. OKIE FINALLY CALMED DOWN, AND EMBARRASEDLY DELCARED “WEREN’T HUNGRY NOHOW” AND SULKED AND WENT HUNGRY THE REST OF THE DAY, KNOWING IN THE BACK OF HIS MIND AND WITH HIS HEART OF HEARTS, THAT EVEN THE SMALLEST DETAILS OF THIS DAY WOULD NOT BE FORGOTTEN BY THE (SOMETIMES LOOSE LIPPED) UN-OKIE, AND RUEFULLY AWAITING THE DAY THIS STORY WOULD COME TO LIGHT. SADLY, BEFORE THE SUN SET ON THIS DAY, WAY BEFORE THE HUNTERS ARRIVED HOME, THE UN-OKIE WAS TREATENED WITH MANGLEMENT AND/OR DEATH OR BOTH, FOR THE TELLING OF THIS TRUE COLORADO HUNTING STORY, WHICH HAS NOW BEEN PUT TO PAPER AND SHOULD NEVER BE FORGOTTEN NOR MALIGNED IN THE RETELLING. AYE, IT SHOULD BE HAILED AS AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF OKIE HUNTERS TO PONDER AND LEARN FROM, SO THAT THEY WILL NEVER HAVE TO EXPERIENCE THE SAME TERRIBLE MISTAKES AS THESE TWO EARLY LATTER DAY PILGRIMS.
Edited by raydarkhorse (04/01/07 12:15 AM)
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