People dressed in their 1930's chicken feed sack dresses were all over Boogertown this weekend as Depression Re-Enactors mixed with the regular citizens of Boogertown.
"I thank it's great", stated Mayor Halls who had just bought an apple from a well-dressed salesman on the sidewalk in his circa 1930's suit. "And don't those blowing tumbleweeds and dust storms look authentic? Of course they ARE authentic but you know what I mean. They got a big fan going down there between Cuzzin' Lukes Used Furniture and the Mission that's got it moving more than usual. Even produces little dust devils."
"Look everybody, that man up there on our only three-story building is going to jump!" shouted a youth running by. "See, he's got a sign what says "Look Everybody, I'm Going To Jump! There he goes!"
Of course the re-enactor had a trampoline to jump on but he bounced off to the right causing little Sally Jean Adkins to cram her stick of cotton candy up the back of her mama's dress who let go a loud oath!
"I see Mrs. Adkins is really getting into the spirit of the times", stated Mayor Halls. "Look how she's carrying on, just like that was her old man who jumped."
Suddenly an old car came by with a machine gun sticking out the window as Al Capone's men ran through Boogertown, firing away as the citizens and re-enactors alike, fell on the street, Mrs Adkins in a pile of dog shit.
"Would you listen to Mrs. Adkins" said the Mayor. "She's better than any of the actors but I wish she'd watch her mouth."
Then another re-enactor came out from the Boogertown Bank with a mask on, holding a sack of money while everybody cheered him out of town, after he had taken a bow.
"In all, it's been a great day for Boogertown, to get their minds off our present economic disaster by seeing those people show us how it was done in the 1930's", stated Mayor Halls.
"Although worth every penny", continued Halls, that evening, while everybody what was anybody in Boogertown had supper at the Boogertown Firm Boy Restaurant, "there have been a few problems."
"I SAY", she raised her voice over some big man in overhauls who was saying, "So a Jackalope is just something that a taxidermist come up with? No wonder the one I shot out back his place tasted like shit!" "LET'S GO OUTSIDE!"
"As I was saying in there, there were a couple of problems. For one thing, it was sometimes hard telling the re-enactors in their chicken feed dresses from our regular folk in their potato sack dresses."
"Plus, nobody's seen hide nor hair of that bank robber and their leader says they don't HAVE a bank robbing in their show."
