Only my Alabama kin and Texas buddies will relate to this one...
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If you are going to live or visit in the South, you need to know these
rules:
1. That farm boy you see at the gas station did MORE
work before breakfast than you do all week at the gym.
2. It's called a gravel road. No matter how slow you drive, you're going
to get dust on your Navigator. Drive it or get out of the way.
3. The red dirt -- it's called clay. Red clay. If you like the color,
don't
wash your car for a couple weeks -- it'll be permanent.
4. We all started hunting and fishing when we were seven years old.
Yeah, we saw Bambi. We got over it.
5. Go ahead and bring your $600 Orvis Fly Rod. Don't cry to us if a
flathead
breaks it off at the handle. We have a name for those little 13-inch trout
you fish for -- bait.
6. Pull your pants up. You look like an idiot.
7. If that cell phone rings while a bunch of mallards (ducks) are making
their
final approach, we will shoot it (the phone). You might want to ensure
it's not up to your ear at the time.
8. No, there's no Vegetarian Special on the menu. Order steak. Order it
rare.
Or, you can order the Chef's Salad and pick off the two pounds of ham and
turkey.
9. Tea - yeah, we have tea. It comes in a glass over ice and is really,
really sweet. You want it hot -- sit it in the sun. You want it
unsweetened -- add a LOT of water.
10. You bring Coke into my house, it better be brown, wet, and served over
ice.
11. So, you have a sixty thousand dollar car. We're real impressed.
We have a quarter of a million-dollar combine (it's farm equipment)
that we only use two weeks a year.
12. Let's get this straight. We have one stoplight in town. We stop
when it's red. We may even stop when it's yellow.
13. We eat dinner together with our families. We pray before we eat (yeah,
even breakfast).
We go to church on Wednesdays and Sundays and we go to high school
football games
on Friday nights. We still address our seniors with yes, sir and yes,
ma'am, and we sometimes still take Sunday drives around town to see friends
and neighbors.
14. We don't do hurry up well.
15. Greens - yeah, we have greens, but you don't putt on them.
You boil them with salty fatback, bacon or a ham hock.
16. Yeah, we eat catfish, bass, bream (pronounced brim) and carp..
You really want sushi and caviar? It's available at the bait shop.
17. They are pigs. That's what they smell like (money). Get it -- pig
farms -- income -- money?
Get over it. Don't like the smell? Interstate 77 goes two ways Interstate
20 goes the other two. Pick one.
18. Grits are corn. You put butter, salt, and maybe even some pepper
on them. If you want to put milk and sugar on them, then you want
Cream of Wheat -- go to Kansas. That would be I-20 west.
19. The Opener refers to the first day of deer season or dove season.
Both are holidays. You can get pancakes, cane syrup, and sausage
before daylight at the church on either day.
20. So every person in every pickup waves? Yeah, it's called being
friendly. Understand the concept?
21. Yeah, we have golf courses. Don't hit in the water hazards. It spooks
the
fish and bothers the gators...and if you hit it in the rough, we have
these
things called diamondbacks, and they're not baseball players.
22. That Highway Patrol Officer that just pulled you over for driving like
an idiot
...his name is Sir, no matter how young he is.
23. We have lots of pine trees. They have sap. It drips from them.
You park your Navigator under them, and they'll leave a logo on your
hood..
24. You burn an American flag in our state, you get beat up. No questions.
The liberal contingent of our state legislature -- all four of them --
enacted a measure to stop this. There is now a $2.50 fine for beating up
the flag burner.
25. No, we don't care how you do things up North. If it is so great up
there, why not stay there?
26. And no, down here we don't have an accent, you do.