Week EIGHT prompts (mixed 8 and 9 up!! )

Week 8 prompts I mixed up week 8 and week 9s, after tonight and tomorrow morning; I think I should be caught up! :D YAY!

#1 Down in the boondocks

The boondocks: Rough, remote or isolated, a definition from Google. I take the term boondocks as mostly being isolated and remote which is also how I like to categorize a lot of Mid-coast Maine. Some parts of it like Rockland and Camden, they don't count. Talking about Union, Appleton, all the way up to Cushing. This area can be so quiet, woodsy, and unbelievably peaceful. Its the kind of place you could live and be bored, but just not care because there's enough space not too many people really bother you. Depends on what one likes, but for the writer here, peaceful, remote and no one bugging the heck outta me, that's a place I call heaven.

The boondocks sounds like something real country and redneck, and sure it can be that. You don't have to call it the boonies. We just like calling it that. The boonies is when we say "Jesus, you want me to drive way out to the damn boonies just for some ass?" Now that's just using that as an example, keep some humor in 'ya know? The boonies though, is a place you can lay as many burn outs as one would like. Burn as many tires as one likes, and throw beer cans wherever. Though all 3 of those are bad for the environment. The boondocks seems to be an acceptable place. Though many will not agree with that statement. Those who do all those things, know its illegal but yell out YOLO! (You only live once.) While they're doing it.

So who lives in the boondocks one could ask? There are three types of people that live here. Lets start with the ones that have 3 teeth, shirts with swear words, and nicer trucks than their houses. These are nice people now, don't think they aren't. Their morals are just different than most. They're badass, or so they like to think and they like to show off by their lifted trucks, 35 inch tires and Flowmaster exhausts. It's just the way life is for them. They're couch is probably in their garage covered in oil and grease, this is where they sleep when the beer kicks in. They think one way and it's the right way. You might find a few PBR beer boxes laying around too, that's how they start their back yard bonfires by the way.

The next type of people that live in the boonies are those who have big houses, nice lifted trucks with lift kits and exhausts, mostly Chevrolet owners. A few Ford's on some of the streets, but not many. These people are definitely lobsterman, and they are probably a lot tougher than you and can out haul anyone that tries to outhaul them. Their mentality is only one way, and like the first type... It's the only way! Most are settled down with a woman or ball and chain. Love Maine, hate the city. They park their four-wheelers on tree stumps, and leave 97.1 the Bear country station on low 24/7. That or 105.1 "The mountain of pure rock." Their afternoons consist of stopping by the store for at least a 12 back of beer, working on something in the garage, then maybe a date with their women to Walmart or "Pizza Slut."

The third type of person that lives in the boondocks of the Mid-Coast of Maine are older people. These people either have a heart of gold, always want to help you out, or are just rude old people waiting to die. Either way, their yards are always clean and they all have brand new double-wide trailers with those really bright electronic numbers by their front door that say what P.O. Box they are. They also all drive Buicks or Ford Rangers.

The boondocks sometimes will have a few American Eagle wearin' stragglers, but its mostly people that wear Grundens and Carhartt and those who have one way of thinking. They like things to be quiet and just be able to do their own thing without really anyone bothering them. What's interesting here is, is that the town officers pretty much know everybody by name. This can be a good thing if you just speed and don't do anything too bad. This can mean the officer just tells you to "slow the hell down bud!" Or it means the officer is going to say, "if I catch you having a party down here again you're getting a summons." They only seem to give summons out to the kids that are 16 trying to act 21. They let the kids who are 19 and 20 go because they are "almost 21, so we will call it good."

Down in the boondocks, the living is pretty much how ever you want it to be. If you have a problem with your neighbor, you win if you have a bigger caliber gun, or if you at least have a shot gun. Maine; Its the Way life should be. The Boonies: "It is how we say it is"