I will admit, I have used my accent to get people to like me, notice me, remember me, get ahead, you name it.
The asst. superintendent of schools here calls me "Texas".
In an area where people drive their "cah" to the "bah" to drink some "beeah", I stick out like a sore thumb. (This accent makes me want to poke out my own eardrums!).
My students say I talk like Sandy on Spongebob.
And dammit, I love Blue Bell and Mrs. Baird's....
If I said how I really felt, this post would be 10 pages long, so I'm fixin' to stop typin'.