I've Been. Another liberal a hole poem

[Brian37]

What does your paying for a trip for your best friend have to do with a connection between Blondie and Johnnie Cash?

It has nothing to do with payment.  Even to this day my friend John teases me  about finding ABBA, Metallica, and the Redskins fight song on Banjo. 

I didn't pay for his trip to buy loyalty. 

But, like he long term, slowly caused me to rethink social norms, he is the reason I no longer look at all red state and country music as  evil. 


John and I spent billions of hours (metaphorically speaking) on a 6 day road trip in the outback of Australia. I personally loved the topography the entire time. But between their music tastes and mine, being stuck in the back of our host car, and they both loving country music, It didn't matter how much I liked or disliked the scenery or their music taste. I was t their mercy.

But even given the fact I was a musical minority on my second trip, there were tons of moments I would not trade for the world.

I got to go to a tropical island  in Yappoon, and view an Echidna in the wild.  My country music loving friend John, got to leave the united states for the first time in his life. He got to pet a kangaroo and Koala too. 

I don't give a shit about the money.  I  do care that my close friend like John have the opportunity to see more of the world like I did. And my second trip to Australia was far more valuable to me knowing Bob's friend John, got to see where he lived.