mount vernon

we were super slow at work about a month ago and for a day or so i was moved in to a different department since i had completely run out of work for the day.
now you need to understand that i technically work at a factory. factories tend to attract some very interesting employees. i like to think that my department is one of the least "white trash" departments.
so when i get moved, i get a little nervous because these kind of people don't seem to take well to "my kind". although i've grown up with this problem all of my life growing up in the town of white bluff, i still can't help but get nervous.
so the job i was assigned to was "stuffing records". i was to put all of the new guns n roses records into the jackets so they could be sealed and shipped. there were several other people doing this but there were two that were standing directly across the table from me.
the first was a large guy whose name i believe is vernon. at least that's what his shirt said. he had a lit cigarette stuck to his lip the entire four hours or so that i saw him. i actually never saw him inhale anything, just occasionally ash it. he had a borderline mullet. i don't know if i could actually call it a mullet. he also had a truckers hat on that he seems to be wearing everytime i see him.
the second guy was at least half my size. he also had a borderline mullet and would occasionally smoke a cigarette. i think he was actually smoking his cigarettes though. i don't know his name but im sure it was a good one. he didn't have it displayed on his shirt like vernon.
these two guys, who have yet to say a word to me, started talking about the tattoos they had. what prison they had gotten them in. if they were thirteen when they got it or forty. how bad it hurt. and which names they needed to cover up.
vernon was talking about his cousin who had just gotten a tattoo in prison by some self-taught tattoo artist who vernon apparently thought was amazing. he said that as soon as this guy got out of prison in a year, he was going to get a new huge tattoo from him.
he then described the tattoo he wanted..
huge across his shoulders on his back. a picture of mount rushmore.. but he did not want the president's faces on mount rushmore. instead he was going to have each of his four children's faces on mount rushmore.

that story took longer than expected. sorry.