The Rodeo…
Last night we attended one of the most absurd venues i have ever seen: The Cody Rodeo. As soon as we pulled into the parking lot, foreign smells, sights, and an abundance of overwhelmingly giddy cowboys in plaid presented themselves. As we ventured up to the seats my eyes began to profusely water. I am still trying to decided wether this was because of my newly discovered allergies or the horrifying “cowboy prayer” that everyone in the venue happened to know by heart. The number of seemingly born-again-chistians there was quite large. The announcers, dressed in oversized rainbow colored suits, had a sense of humor that made me roll my half opened eyes almost every time they opened their mouths. Things got “fun,” or should i say interesting, as the strange events began. There was bull riding, attacking of baby calves, and rather amusing horse races. One rather plump cowgirl was in one of the races and made the 4-year-old girls that went before her look like professionals, for she successfully fucked up her chance in her event as she slowly tumbled off her horse to the chorus of kelly clarkson’s “What doesn’t kill you”, making the crowd say their obnoxious line “Ohh shucks.” Thankfully this comic break from the hopefully unpaid “comedians” that preformed, made me giggle. Before this sight to see, a young cowgirl participating in the calf rope up, lost her finger…but seriously. From what we could see, it appeared as if she got her hand stuck in the wrong place and her lasso severed her finger cleanly off. I will have the sight of her presumably middle finger with a long white looking string coming out of it being carried out of the ring atop a clump of rodeo poop dirt by her father ingrained in my head for years to come. Good thing the ambulance took a good twenty minutes to get there; We wish the best of luck to this aspiring cowgirl. The bull riding was less than impressive, with only about 3 people being able to last the 8 seconds one needed to get a score. Again there were many “Ohh shucks” from the increasingly giddy crowd during this event also. These cowboys clearly don’t know that if you mess with the bull…you will get the horns. After we had enough of this very bizarre situation, i rounded up my large amounts of tissues i used to alleviate my allergic reaction to this cluster fuck, and peaced out.
