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Well - I've lived in other areas of the south-- it sums up Charleston but not all south..........
Well, I'm sure not all.... but all the small towns where my family lives thoughout GA, NC, VA, MS, SC, and AL it does. Maybe it's more of a small-town/small-city Southern thing.
(I wouldn't include Florida in this generalization.)
I worked in western KY last year, and encountered two things I had never come across before (even with family in Tenn)
Dry counties
A definite unwillingness to include anything about drinking in conversation.....even though everyone did
Everyone was still polite though
I worked in western KY last year, and encountered two things I had never come across before (even with family in Tenn)
Dry counties
A definite unwillingness to include anything about drinking in conversation.....even though everyone did
Everyone was still polite though
I'll bet one of them was Berea?? I was there visiting a friend at Berea College back in my college days and we drove to the next county to get some beer. They are far and wide between, but dry counties do still exist, apparently!
I worked in western KY last year, and encountered two things I had never come across before (even with family in Tenn)
Dry counties
A definite unwillingness to include anything about drinking in conversation.....even though everyone did
Everyone was still polite though
It is actually kind of funny, in the County that Jack Daniels is made you can not buy it, other than at the Distillery......
I don't mind being called Ma'm. I think it's sweet.
I love cheese grits ..... mmm, mmm, mmmm - but I'm on a diet right now and more than 2 tablespoons wouldn't be allowed
Thanks for the heads up about car horns, that's really good to know. Here in NY, people blast their horns at any little thing, then give you the finger and if they're in a particularly nasty mood, pass and cut close in front of you. Road rage is common, bimbos in huge SUV's on their cell phones and any livery drivers - fuggedaboudit.
Do you have a lot of bicycling clubs down there? You know, the Spandex people who ride 3 abreast in a pack of 50 and think they own the road?
I don't mind being called Ma'm. I think it's sweet.
I love cheese grits ..... mmm, mmm, mmmm - but I'm on a diet right now and more than 2 tablespoons wouldn't be allowed
Thanks for the heads up about car horns, that's really good to know. Here in NY, people blast their horns at any little thing, then give you the finger and if they're in a particularly nasty mood, pass and cut close in front of you. Road rage is common, bimbos in huge SUV's on their cell phones and any livery drivers - fuggedaboudit.
Do you have a lot of bicycling clubs down there? You know, the Spandex people who ride 3 abreast in a pack of 50 and think they own the road?
Yes, and they are very rude almost to the point of being hateful....I have seen them be so ugly to the men who work with Park and Rec out at the Folly Pier, you just want to kick them in the shin.
Here in NY, people blast their horns at any little thing, then give you the finger and if they're in a particularly nasty mood
Horn honking, even giving the finger, is just a reflex in NYC. Often the recipient doesn't really pay any attention or think anything of it. Here, horn honking is considered an act of aggression. If you give the finger you'll probably get followed.
well im visiting charleston in june and hope from the sounds of it i might fit right in , im from a small town in southern michian and theres the hospitality and everyone nice to each other here too
Southerners aren't interested in how the north did it....
The biggest thing I've noticed is the friendliness. Coming from Seattle, where we would just as soon not speak anyone at all, it is refreshing to have the cashier ask how your day is going, or hear about the bank tellers new grandson. I don't hear ma'am much, but I do almost have to fight to open a door. I hate that awkward wait while a man runs to the door but it's less awkward than the weird door trade off dance you have to do once they get to it after you've opened it.
And, I would like to apologize to all the native Charlestonians on here. I compare SC to WA ALL THE TIME! I do it and then realize after the fact the you all don't care how we did it back there. I can't help it though, it's night and day from where we came from.
So, if you hear an obnoxious woman talking about how much different it is from Wa here, I'm sorry, I can't help myself!
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