So far, getting Dave to do silly things in order to learn about western Kentucky life has been pretty easy. Getting him to do the smart thing is a little trickier.
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| Lucky that late-afternoon clouds blocked out the sun, Dave sports a long-sleeved shirt at the Kelly Green Men Days. |
When he arrived at the rodeo, some participants were surprised to see him wearing a long-sleeved wool shirt — certainly atypical attire for a Kentucky August, but nothing that surprised me.
Earlier in the day, he showed up at the Kelly Green Men Days — with temperatures in the 90s — in a different long-sleeved shirt.
During the Western Kentucky State Fair’s demolition derby (again, with temperatures hot enough to make Satan sweat), he casually meandered into the fairgrounds wearing a long-sleeved shirt under a sweater.
Seriously, Dave?
Now most of us Kentuckians can understand wearing long sleeves and pants in the summer to ward off sunburn and perpetual attacks by ticks, mosquitoes and other creepy-crawly blood suckers, but we obviously have more sense than Dave and don’t venture out into the summer sauna wearing a layer of wool. Such antics get him hours of teasing in the newsroom and should create a new item on his bucket list: dressing appropriately for the weather.
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| Wearing a long-sleeved shirt and a sweater during an intense summer heat wave, Dave takes his teasing from New Era photographer Dana Long and Webmaster John Godsey like a champ. |
What’s next Dave, flannel in a tobacco patch?
Fortunately for us, he takes his teasing in stride. But when winter’s chill settles in and the first sight of a snowflake prompts bread and milk shortages at local grocery stores, school closings and the reminder that most Kentuckians got their driver’s licenses out of Cracker Jack boxes, that Yankee will surely wonder why such a minor snowfall throws a major wrench in our lives.
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