Mexicota

Big weekend coming up for me...I'm traveling to South Dakota! Notice the word traveling. I think we will actually spend 4-5 days driving and will be there for about 2 hours. And no, I'm not exaggerating. It's okay, we're actually going to help with a youth conference by doing some skits and stuff. So as I was thinking this week...about South Dakota...I thought about the vacation our family took to the Black Hills (are they important enough to merit capitalization? hmm, benefit of the doubt I guess) a few years ago. I rememeber my sister, who was probably five at the time, forgetting what the state was called and making up a new name for it - Mexicota. None of us could figure out where that came from, but it was just one of those cute funny things little kids say. Until recently when I read something unusual in the opinion section of the newspaper. One man wrote a letter proposing that the United States should join with Mexico and form a united economy. Say wha...Huh? Well...you mean just like more open trade or something right? No, he went on. Basically he decided it would just make perfect sense for the United States and Mexico to become one country. Oh. So this brilliant idea sat around in my brain for a week or so, when suddenly something hit me. My sister had been dead on! Forget making one united nation. Nobody really wants that. I think all Mexico really wants from us are the states that seem like they would fit in better with their scenery anyway (read - boring, sandy wasteland). Mexico, I present to you South Dakota. And while we're at it, maybe you would be interested in some of these other pieces of real estate. How about Nevada (minus Vegas, silly), or maybe the eastern half of Wyoming? What about Texas? You seemed pretty interested in it back in the day, and now that we don't want all that oil after all, maybe you could find more use for that chunk of property. Actually I think it would make sense for you to have Texas, to go along with all that land you have there to its left...oh wait, New Mexico is ours after all...well, take that too, it never sounded very American anyway. Yeah, I think this would be a good deal for you, Mexico. Think it over. Oh, and before I forget, this wouldn't be an even deal if we get nothing in return, so I was thinking you could trade us all your land that would be considered even remotely interesting. You know, like maybe some kind of mountains, those beach resorts that our tourists find so agreeable, some kind of ancient ruins...that kind of stuff. Even trade as far as I'm concerned. Thanks, Mexico.