You might be a redneck if...

...you hot glue BB's to your pine wood derby car!  

Nathan had his first pine wood derby this past weekend.  He got 4th out of 7 for speed (probably last in design!).  I think Nathan was a little embarrassed when he saw the other cars.  I hate to make fun of Alex, but he knew he had this one coming.  And really, in his defense, he has been pretty busy doing extra work due to our new baby.  So they did well just to put something together at the last minute.  Literally.  They were finishing it right before the weigh-in.  I don't know where Alex got the idea to use BB's (as in BB guns) for the weight - it must be a redneck thing... Nathan's car looked like the "Mater" of the bunch, pretty hillbilly.  Picture the sleek looking cars, as opposed to Nathan's with BB's falling off.  

I think both Nathan and Alex were embarrassed when they saw the other cars, which were sleek and professional looking.  You could tell that time and effort had been put into making them.  And then there's Nathan's...  I think they put one coat of whatever paint we had around, a light yellow color.  Alex drilled holes in the top and filled them with BB's, held on with globs of hot glue.  When they got to the weigh-in, the car only weighed 3 oz.  It's supposed to be as close to 6 oz. as possible.  Someone had some real weights that they added to his car.  Luckily, for Nathan's sake, his car wasn't last in speed. It wasn't a complete flop.

We had a good laugh about this whole experience.  We had to remind Nathan that we are unique in many ways!  Be proud to be different, right? 

I think they're completely starting over for the district pine wood derby race...