Wha-whaaaat?

[angledge]

hotpantsgalore started a peach stand last weekend. She bought a tent shelter, a folding table, a cooler (for drinks for sale), some signs ("FREDERICKSBURG PEACHES"), & 5 half-bushels of peaches. Then she found a place in front of an out of business Chuck E. Cheese & started selling. 20 half-bushel boxes & 2 days later, she had paid off her initial investment, made a few hundred bucks, & gotten bitten by the Peach Bug.

Now she's waking up early (WHAT?), negotiating deals directly with the peach orchards, hiring former classmates, & opening up one, maybe two new stands for this weekend. My fiance now has scheduled to purchase 50 half-bushels of peaches for the weekend. At about 65 peaches per half-bushel box, that's over 3,000 peaches.

I, on the other hand, have been banished to East Texas, where the high temperature today hit 106 degrees F. Working on a former creosote treatment pit, basking in the mothball smell of naphthalene, I caught myself thinking a few times, Man, a fresh peach sure would taste great right now....

In other news, I had chicken-fried steak for dinner & it was not entirely awful.

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Millions of peaches!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

PEACHES COME INSIDE A CAN!
THEY WERE PUT THERE BY A MAN
IN A FACTORY DOWNTOWN

IF I HAD MY LITTLE WAY
I'D EAT PEACHES EVERY DAY
SUN SOAKING BULGES IN THE SHADE

Re: Millions of peaches!

[love2loveher.livejournal.com]

anytime ANYBODY says the word Peaches, I can't go any further without at least mumbling "Peaches come from a can."

Re: Millions of peaches!

[sskipstress.livejournal.com]

At least we're not alone in our idiosyncrasy.

Re: Millions of peaches!

[marasca.livejournal.com]

Why did RockBand teach me the words to Lump instead of this song? I never knew that last line there.

Re: Millions of peaches!

[angledge.livejournal.com]

HPG has woken up a couple of mornings humming this tune.

Re: Millions of peaches!

[bad-latin.livejournal.com]

I heard that song a lot in high school, in pieces here and there, and thought, "Canned peaches? What a stupid, boring idea for a song. Ho hum." Then, much later, I finally heard more of the lyrics and was like "JESUS THIS IS FILTHY"

Re: Millions of peaches!

[krick.livejournal.com]

Speaking of "peach" songs, This song below is one of my guilty pleasures. I prefer the shorter single version (without the extra bit in the middle) but this was the best copy I could find on YouTube. It's a definite earworm...