screw you, North Carolina

Dayton, OH is nothing too great, and I am certainly the first to admit that. But we used to have at least one thing to brag about, one small achievement that we could be proud of amidst the slow decay of our city: we were the home of the Wright Brothers when they were making their first successful airplane! Airplanes are obviously a huge part of life nowadays, so that is a big deal to have the first one ever made in Dayton, OH. Most of you reading this may think I'm making this up, because I'm sure you've all heard that North Carolina is the "birthplace of aviation." That is a joke, and Dayton does not appreciate it. It's true that the Wright brothers took their plane down to North Carolina to fly it on the beach, because the weather was more permitting there, but this does not change the fact that the plane itself was "born" in Dayton. When North Carolina started trying to take credit for birthing flight, the Daytonians took action and built a huge replica of the first airplane and put it in the middle of Main Street in downtown Dayton. It's obnoxious, and that's exactly the point. Needless to say, a picture of this large replica placed in the middle of the road, dividing the two sides of Main Street, would no doubt be the cover of a "Dayton" book.