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Nov. 22nd, 2002 03:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wickedfleaI got a couple of rolls of quarters at the bank today (parking meters and laundry, y'know), and they're all Mississippi quarters! They must have just come out. I'm glad there's nothing embarassing on it, like slaves picking cotton, though I wish they would have put a rib shack on it instead of the ubiquitous magnolia. At least they didn't use the house in Tupelo where Elvis was born. You know, the Tennessee quarter had some mistake-ridden musical instruments on it. But when it comes to Presley homes, they got Graceland, and all we got was a two-room shack in Tupelo.
I've never been to Graceland, but I did go to the house in Tupelo. Well, actually I've been up to the gate of Graceland, but that was in the days before Priscilla had the joint opened up to the public and started making some serious jack for herself and Lisa Marie Presley Jackson Cage. I think I would freak if I ever went in that place--I've heard it's a really depressing display of '70s interior decor. I wouldn't be able to restrain myself: "Hey, is that a QUAALUDE? Right there! Almost hidden by the shag carpet, next to the leopard-skin rug and in front of the television with a shotgun hole in the middle of the screen! And say, can I use the bathroom? I promise I won't rifle through the medicine cabinet or pose on the throne like the dear, departed King."
I've never been to Graceland, but I did go to the house in Tupelo. Well, actually I've been up to the gate of Graceland, but that was in the days before Priscilla had the joint opened up to the public and started making some serious jack for herself and Lisa Marie Presley Jackson Cage. I think I would freak if I ever went in that place--I've heard it's a really depressing display of '70s interior decor. I wouldn't be able to restrain myself: "Hey, is that a QUAALUDE? Right there! Almost hidden by the shag carpet, next to the leopard-skin rug and in front of the television with a shotgun hole in the middle of the screen! And say, can I use the bathroom? I promise I won't rifle through the medicine cabinet or pose on the throne like the dear, departed King."
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Date: 2002-11-23 06:51 pm (UTC)People are nutty about those quarters. I think my dad was saving every one he got for a while. And he's not even insane. Wait--yes, he is.