Friday, April 19, 2013

The Alternative Universe of Tybee

After giving it much thought, I confess that I live in an alternative universe.

Tybee Island is different from any other place ... ever!

Oh, we have our sister islands ... a confederacy of lunacy ... like Key West and ... er ... well ... I can't think of any other place remotely like Tybee except for Key West.

The island is completely schizophrenic with at least three distinct personalities.

First, there are those who believe we are a normal American small town. They serve on committees and hold events to raise money for things and go to church. Well, they don't go to Bar Church but they do attend the McReligions ... Baptist, Catholic, Episcopal and Methodist.

Strangely they believe they are the only people who actually live on the island.

They believe with everything in them that the rest of us are visitors who will eventually go away.

Second are the Bar people. We have our own Church that meets in a Bar and encourages smokers and flip-flops. We don't serve on any committees though we do have a Bored meeting. We sponsor parades, parties, skinny dipping and the broad base utilization of medical marijuana. There is a lot of music around what we do and we are a strange collection of pagans, Lesbians, Druids and I'm the token "REV".

The Bar people pay no attention whatsoever to the McReligious people who wonder why we're still here and keep passing new laws and putting up more "Stop Signs" to discourage our behavior.

Finally, there are the visitors.

Honestly, the visitors like the Bar People WWWAAAYYY more than the McReligious people.

The McReligious people think they're cool if they wear a tuxedo top with cut off shorts which actually looks ... STOOPID!

The Bar people eventually find ways to lose the laundry and dance naked.

The Visitors immediately know who they're siding with!

Throw us all together and its a strange gumbo that somehow works.

Just don't tell the McReligious people that it works.

They think they're the only ones here.