Chicken pull ups, raising the flag

Last night after work I headed outside to add some pull ups to my 1000 pull up challenge series.  I mixed them in with chicken care. We had the chickens out while we did the daily maintenance and relocation of their mobile home.  The chickens find me doing pull ups to be interesting, they are fond of milling about my feet as I do them as you can see here.

I did a total of 100 reps, the first time I packed 100 pull ups into a workout in quite awhile.  Today I have a sore back and a blistered thumb to show for it.  The pain is worth the price, it felt good to feel stronger on the bar than I have for awhile.

On my way home last night I had a Chevy Avalanche come whipping up behind me followed by it darting around me.  I was already going nearly 10mph over the speed limit.  The truck continued weaving back and forth between cars as it pulled away.  I immediately noticed the large confederate flag that was secured over the tailgate as well as a large REDNECK sticker on the rear window.  I was not surprised that someone that drove in this manner also was a strong supporter of the confederacy.

So when I caught up to this vehicle at the next stop light I snapped a picture and later posted it to FB with the following caption “More than likely not a real deep thinker.” Although there were several layers to the North-South conflict in the Civil War, the one aspect of it that makes it truly disgusting is slavery.  Openly flaunting your support of a time and place that embraced treating human beings as material items that are acquired, consumed and then tossed away just does not make sense to me in any context.

Well my post to FB annoyed some and brought agreement from others.  In retrospect I would have been better served to just bottle up my aggravation and not post the picture.