I witnessed a drive-by snooting in Fort Mill

[lovethecarolinas]

Originally Posted by lovesMountains

Who, me????

Though if you skewer my friend lovethecarolinas, you just as soon skewer me too - we are 99.9% of the same opinion

why thank you lovesMountains for having my back. Heck thats an even higher number than my own hubby would probably say~!

[Mrs. P]

Originally Posted by Jason Hills

I was headed to look at a new development near Sun City just off of Route 521 when I saw something that seems to lurk under the surface in Charlotte. It taught me that a look can speak a thousand words, and that certain sentiments run deep here. A Mercades was coming in the opposite direction, and to my left was a gentleman tilling his lawn at a quaint Southern home that seemed like the perfect look for the sleepy, small community that once was Fort Mill. Next to Sun City however (a 3,700 home retirement center with over-the-top emenities) and surrounded by burgeoning new developments at every turn, his home looked slightly out of place.

The Mercades sped by, with the fifty-something driver giving this Southern gentleman a look that I can ony describe as a drive-by snooting. It was a look that reminds me of the sentiments one might hear on a plane en-route from New York to Cali about the people on the ground in between. The sentiment: he, she, they are insignificant. Imagine the audacity! On the other side, the Southern gentleman had a look on his face as if to say: "there goes another one," a look of aquiescent disdain.

Now, did I imagine this? Or have others seen the same kind of thing? And, was this strictly socio-economic, or perhaps a piece of the North/South issue?

That same night, I am in a bar with a pool table, shooting with some locals, when they find out I'm a NYker. Apparently, this was not information I should have shared with this particular crowd...my first time being called a "Damn Yankee," and they were not kidding around. One man's parting statement was "The only good Yankee is a dead one."

These are two extreme examples amidst many other positive ones. But being a newcomer from Upstate NY (and formerly from Jeysey) I'd love to hear other thoughts and experiences.

I left the Charlotte area for exactly the reason you talked about "snooting".
I can't stand the place, as for being called Yankee, I was called that many many times, when I lived in Concord. Not so though in Charlotte itself.

[businessperson]

Originally Posted by lovethecarolinas

You want other thoughts...

My first thought was...you created a attention grabbing title

My second thought was....if this is a Non-Fiction story then you need to change your facts (due to...if indeed you were near Sun City off 521..you were actually in Indian Land, SC)

My third thought was...how can someone driving along a road at speeds of anywhere from 25 to 45mph manage to witness another driver who "sped by" coming from the opposite side of the road...give a look to another person to "your" left...that transcended generations of social economic unrest (to top it off this all had to occur in a fraction of a second)

My fourth thought was...this story just keeps getting better...

My fifth thought was...you drank to much at the bar

My sixth and final thought was...you would be an excellent author penning fictional stories.

Moral of the story: Don't read to much into a quick glance...and actually stop and talk to folks around here before a story is created without words.

My thoughts exactly. What a story!