Vittrad

I think that many of these are rural versus urban observations.

JJ5

Fainaagain, if you can see the crack they get sent to dorms to change, we are private and can sustain some rules. But this last year the girls have been the worst and from the other angle.

SO GLAD the other isn't pervasive here, essentially we see the underwear more than the underwearless.

Diana

Very cute, and thanks for sharing.

Being from (Wilmington - NO, not Wilmington, DE - Wilmington, NC), and living in Fuquay Varina, NC, I have seen (and lived) a lot of these items on the list over the years.

A few more.

#? Don't even ask where to get a good bagel around here.

#? Yes, we do REALLY only have one snowplow for the entire county.

#? You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

I have a contractor who does some odd jobs for me. He has a bumper sticker on the back of his work van. It says, "I don't CARE how you did it up north."

sylvia3

I have to say, this made Southerners sound like Nazis to me.
(insert stupid smiley face icon here!)

sylvia3

oops, maybe everyone else wasn't reading all the threads pertaining to Nazi overuse and PC stuff lately.
Nevermind!

J_Correa

christiegr - we like to refer to those dandelion greens (aka field greens) as road kill salad because it looks like someone just ran over a patch of weeds with their mower and called the trimmings salad

christiegr

Diana,
How ironic..I live in Fuquay Varina also!(Actually Chalybeate Springs..but we do not have a delivering USPS here)so FV it is!

The growth has gone wild here.I moved from Raleigh to get away from the rat-race 7 years ago..and now it has followed me!My husband is an Electrical Contractor..so he loves the growth here.

j-correa,
Thanks for the clarification on the *field greens/dandalion greens*

christiegr

Diana,
LOL..I have seen the van with the bumper sticker..I don't care how you did it up North.I cannot remember what company it was though?

fehgeddaboudit

I once met a girl from the south who spoke so slowly that, by the time she told me that she wasn't "that type of girl", she already was.

Diana

christie, It's just a fellow who does odd jobs around here. There's no name on his truck.

I know what you mean about the rat race. We are actually considering moving somewhere more "remote."

We've been here since 1988, and the influx of new people has just gotten overwhelming.

I used to joke that we were going to have to move to Lizard Lick if it got any worse, but now LL is overrun too.

I'm thinking maybe over toward Smithfield or Wilson out in the middle of about 25 acres will get us what we are looking for.

I've been spending a lot of time over that way because my horse trainer lives in Snow Hill. The farmers are bringing the 'baccy in. The whole pace is slower and people still wave and smile.

I miss that...

bonniebroad

Diana and Christie, are you girls coming to our NC GTG on Nov. 19, at Neo-China??? Hope so... (My e-mail is [email protected] ...) Diana, the kind of community you want is the kind I grew up in, up in Yadkin County in tobacco country, eons ago! Loved it ...

christiegr

Diana,
We have small children so we will have to wait to move on a few acres of land as they would get bored with no kids to play with.

My family is from Wilson..so I am familiar with that area.

I was behind that guy's van at a light oneday and laughed when I saw the bumper sticker on it.

Bonniebroad,
It depends on if I have a babysitter as to if I would be able to go to the GTG..thanks for the invite.

sinehat

Diana, will wonders never cease? Now even Lizard Lick has made it to the internet....I lived for a few years (and the Old Home Place is still) a half mile from there. The old joke used to be that they only needed one "Welcome to Lizzard Lick" sign. It had the same message on both sides.

ebgibbs

Except these don't apply in Atlanta where my sister is always reminding me, "don't talk to people!" I always imagine the poor people she's warning me against are exiles from the lovelier parts of GA, forced to move to Atlanta for jobs, and starved for the way other southerners love to strike up conversations in line.

jnn1964

Here's a few rules for visiting the North:

- Don't say hello to me unless you've been properly introduced. It's considered rude to bother people you don't know.

- If you're going to mosey, please move to the right. We've got places to go, and things to do.

- Don't order country ham for breakfast. We eat Canadian bacon.

- If you ask for pop, expect me to reply 'I'm sure I don't know where your father is'.

- Dr. Pepper? Did he lance that boil I had last year?

- If you're here on business, yes you will be expected to show up for work if there's an inch of snow on the ground.

- And for heaven's sake, don't clear the snow off the hood of your car with a metal shovel! A new paint job costs a fortune.

allisonm

My mother was from a small town in NC, she married a Yankee. We still try to go down to see the family every few years, and everyone in the town waves to us, whether they know us or not. Up here in New York, there's no waving to neighbors because we rarely see them. We get in the car (which is parked in the garage) and go to work. When we come home, we pull the car into the garage. But we do all get together for a neighborhood picnic once a year!

Sweet iced tea, hush puppies and grits are my favorites! (And biscuit gravy...)

CAPH52

jnn1964, don't know where you're from, but "pop" is a northern thing! In the south, it's Coke--no matter what flavor it is (orange, 7 UP, etc.). Most Chicago area people call it "pop". Most of the rest of the state calls it "soda".

Fodorite018

What a fun post! I have to say that as a PNW girl who was moved to SE GA, I learned a lot of this VERY quickly, lol! Then to upstate (yes!) NY, so can appreciate the "northern" rules too.

Growing up in the PNW, we use the term "pop". After getting scolded in FL and GA, I promptly learned to call it "soda". Obviously lived there long enough for it to become habit, because even though we have been back here for 7 years, I still call it soda and all my friends and family look at me and wonder why I still have not adjusted to being back home, lol!

Stephanie

I like the list and I speak as a Northerner (PA). People from the NE are notorious for verbally putting down people from the Southern U.S. and it sickens me. They have their traditions and we have ours and both can be respectful of each.

kybourbon

This is sooo funny and true!

And soft drinks, soda and pop are all called COKE no matter what brand! Of course everyone in KY drinks Ale8One not Coke.

My daughter goes to school in the north (Boston) and last year she had a damn yankee boyfriend from California. He kept insisting he wasn't a yankee because he was from CA. He didn't get that if you aren't from the little cluster of southern states you ARE a yankee.

She had to explain to him southern manners before he came to visit last summer - holding doors, responding to clerks, the whole yes ma'am/sir thing.

KY is a border state with the Mason/Dixon line running through it. They ask when you order tea(iced is a given) if you want it sweetened or unsweetened. If you go one state south it will be automatically sweet tea - no asking. Also no asking if you want grits with breakfast, they will be on your plate.

JJ5 - Do I remember you wanting Amano or was that another poster? My local wine shop seems to always have it in stock.