What the hell? (1053 hits)
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Submitted by Heather <monkycrk.at.aol.com> (View user info) at 2003-04-04 00:19:36 EST
The premise:
The "I hate California" post.. kinda got me on this rant.
I'm originally from Memphis, Tn. Every time I tell people
this and tell them how much it sucks, they always think it's
such a cool place. Most of the time, these people have only
been to Memphis for a couple days, maybe a week, at the most.
Memphis IS a cool place, if you are there for this short
period of time. But, once you live there for about a
month or so, you start to realize JUST how much it sucks.
First off, I'm not racist. Although, I was raised in a family
of racist people, I have learned not to be that way.
Most of the black people in Memphis have it out for white people.
It makes it pretty hard to deal with if you are white, b/c
Memphis is about 90% black.
Last weekend, I decided to take a trip home, to visit friends and
family. The 6 hour trip went well, as planned, and we arrived in
Memphis around 10am. I went to my dad's house to drop my brother
off, but ended up having to take him downtown. On the way downtown
we were driving down Sycamore View and all of a sudden I hear this
god awful noise coming up behind us, pretty quick like. I sort of
moved over to the left side of the road a little, just in time to
avoid being side swiped by a car doing about 65 on a flat tire.
This sounds a little strange, right? I thought so, too. So,
the car speeds through the oncoming red light and proceeds to
jump the curb at the next light, almost side swiping about 5 more
cars. At which point I heard the police sirens. They were pretty
far behind... not that the car was going to make it that far, anyway.
At this point, I realized that I was caught in the middle of a police
chase, not even being in town for 2 hrs. In total, the rest of the day,
I saw about 4 more wrecks, was almost included in 3 different ones, and
sat in traffic for what seemed like 2 days. I live in Atlanta, now
and we have pretty bad traffic, but it's b/c there are about 4 million
people living in this city, not because everyone is a fucking imbecile.
The point here is.. never live in Memphis and if you decide to visit, make
sure it's during the summer. Otherwise.. your trip will be shit.
User Reviews
Submitted by smokymtcsw (user info) at 2004-02-13 10:14:28 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Mike Tyson said when he was in Memphis for a fight, "I love being here, there are alot of people just like me!"
Submitted by heatherm (user info) at 2003-10-31 20:42:06 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Choppa (user info) at 2003-10-19 10:22:11 (#)
Ranking: -2
are assuming that a black guy was driving the car with the flat tyre?
because if you are, that would make you a racist who was brought up in a racist family
He was black, asshole.
Submitted by Choppa (user info) at 2003-10-19 10:22:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
are assuming that a black guy was driving the car with the flat tyre?
because if you are, that would make you a racist who was brought up in a racist family.
Submitted by NotApologizing (user info) at 2003-10-17 16:30:59 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
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Submitted by TheMan (user info) at 2003-04-04 15:17:06 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Memphis is an ok place, if your just driving through.
I wouldn't want to live there, too many inbreds and wannabe country stars.
Submitted by Random Joe at 2003-04-04 00:29:45 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
wow...i thought it was bad living in a place where we give out drivers licences at age 14 and anyone under the age of 17 without a sportscar is in the one percential....did i mention it rains a freezes forming ice sheets over here making it even scarier. if i ever go out to memphis ill just have to show them what its like to have a cold hard ice scraper up the ass!