Holier Than Thou...

I've noticed a disturbing phenomenon in Utah over the years.  I call it trying to, "Out Mormon" everyone else.  This crazy woman in Utah County that bought all the t shirts is just the latest example.

It's gone from Legislators introducing obviously, Unconstitutional bills like trying to keep cable TV out of the neighborhood.  To antiabortion laws that will not pass the court test.  To trying to keep Utah some sort of separate entity with our own gun laws, etc.

But the ones that are the funniest are the ones like this Nut Ball woman in Utah County.  You would think if you found a t shirt offensive, you wouldn't buy it.  But no, if there is a chance to get seen by your friends and neighbors on the TV news being this offended (and who do you think tipped off Channel 2?  The store?  I doubt it) you buy $500 worth of them!

She claims she plans to hold them hostage until just before it will be too late, and return them for her money back.  If I was the store manager, I'd tell her bullshit!  You held my stock hostage for a month, so I couldn't sell them, now you want YOUR money back?  I don't think so bitch, it's now MY money!

But the funniest thing is the whole family stickers on the back window of the minivan.  Usually includes the dog and the cat, too.  I have no idea where people get these things.  I guess I don't go to the, "right" stores.

And it's not just Utah, it's across the whole LDS culture.

When we were in Denver in October I got passed by a really beat up minivan.  Couple of dents, missing a hub cap, filthy dirty.  Bet the oil hasn't been changed in years.  But on the back window, in one corner, the mom dad and the six or seven kids stickers.  The other corner the blue, "Y" sticker.  And right in the middle of the whole shebang, a, "MITT" sticker.

Wow.  You can't afford to feed the family and still break lose with a few bucks to wash the van.  But you're going to vote for this elitist jerk who wouldn't give people like you the time of day?  Of course you are!  He's just like us.  No he's not.

But you got all your bases covered in that Ward House parking lot every Sunday.  Nobody can doubt your Mormon, "cred"!

So, Mormon's keep trying to be more, "Mormon-y" than your neighbors.  It's a game more popular than Bunko or selling Noni Juice!  But you really got a ways to go to beat that Utah County woman.  She managed to not only get offended, but do it on the local news!  Well played.