RE: The Yankee Guide to the South
Posted by: PZinter <PZinter@...>
Floyd,
My Yankee response to some of your "Guide."
1. Save all manner of bacon grease. You will be instructed later how to use it.
Hooray for the bacon grease.
2. Just because you can drive on snow and ice does not mean we can. Stay home the two days of the year it snows.
No kiddin you can't.
3. If you do run your car into a ditch, don't panic. Four men in the cab of a four wheel drive with a 12-pack of beer and a tow chain will along shortly. Don't try to help them. Just stay out of their way. This is what they live for.
I suspect you'd find the same up north, too. It's a transcultural "guy thing." I saw several men just standing there as one or two removed the hitch from a truck this morning at the QT.
4. Don't be surprised to find movie rentals and bait in the same store.
5. Do not buy food at the movie store.
14. If you hear a Southerner exclaim, "Hey, y'all, watch this!" stay out of his way. These are likely the last words he will ever say.
Again, the same is likely true where I come from.
15. Northerners can be identified by the spit on the inside of their car's windshield that comes from yelling at other drivers.
Don't get me started.
16. The winter wardrobe you always brought out in September can wait until November.
Or a few chilly days Dec. through March.
28. Those nice white buildings on the street corners, across from the convenience stores, are called churches! Pick one and attend.
Ouch!