Sorority Stories I
am a big Heather McMahan fan. If you have been living under a rock, she’s a 30-something comedian from Georgia who is an Ole Miss grad turned Hollywood hustler who is going straight to the top. She does stand-up, and I saw her live Christmas 2019. She is hilarious, and all the women there had on leopard print, including me. She will be in Montgomery in December, so do get tickets. Her comedy is very much geared towards Millenials, making fun of her Yankee mother and husband When we got to David’s farm, Rush Gone Awry and holding up a mirror to all of us Southerners. We are a A country-fied Rush there sat Pig. David had him on a at Auburn's Kappa crazy bunch. leash. We walked/dragged him to Delta led Lacey and In August, the topic of her podcast, Absolutely Not, the Tahoe, where we put him in a was the Tik Tok phenomenon that was the University of big kennel. Pig was squealing – a lot. sisters to remake "John Deere Green" into "KD Alabama Rush. The girls going through Rush posted daily He did not seem excited about his Green," with hilarious outfits, the results of which sororities kept or trip to Auburn. But off repercussions. cut. The world was intrigued, and many of those we went anyway. young girls ended up with quite the following. I took a wide turn Heather gets to laughing about how much onto state Route 280, and the kennel went things have changed since her college rush days sliding. and how much things stay the same. Pig. Was. Screaming. I was listening along, chuckling, and then He screamed all the way to Auburn. I start laughing out loud, remembering one I had begun to think Pig wasn’t such a great particular Rush memory of my own. idea. I was a Kappa Delta at Auburn, and while And he wasn’t. I dragged him screaming into I was there, our skit was always farm-themed. the KD Chapter Room, and it became complete We remade songs like John Deere Green into chaos. “K...D....GREEN,” and the whole thing was Pig pooped on the floor. country-fied. He did not come as advertised. I was in a full While in the planning process, someone said, sweat as it took four of us to manhandle Pig “Wouldn’t it be funny if we could get a real pig?” back into the kennel, and I drove him, as fast as Everyone agreed that would really make the I could, back to Alex City. skit. There is a happy ending to the story. A Lacey Howell Being from Alexander City with plenty of baby pig was found, wrapped in a blanket and country friends myself. I raised my hand and carried throughout skit day. I don’t remember said, “I know a guy with a pig.” for sure, but Baby Pig probably got dosed with a little I promptly called up local legend David McDaniel, who Benadryl. always had lots of animals and a wide variety of unique Lesson learned: A pig cannot be made into a KD lady useless critters (his words, not mine). He did, in fact, have and is cut after Skit Day. a pig, and to hear him tell it, the big guy even walked on a leash. How perfect was that? ~ Lacey Howell is a recovering English major from Auburn I confirmed to my sorority that I secured a pig and took who now lives on Lake Martin, sells real estate, rides horses off in a borrowed Tahoe with a recruited sorority sister to go and loves good wine. Follow her on Instagram @ LaceyHowell get Pig. We needed to practice with him. In a nutshell, my and on her Facebook page. sister and I were headed to the farm.
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