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Originally posted by dakareng
I was reminded at least weekly that I was a "Yankee" (spoken in the tone of voice that someone from Boston would use when speaking of a certain pinstriped baseball team).
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That's
SO correct it's not even funny. (This coming from a New Yorker who spent 4 years in Atlanta and then moved to Boston)
I was verbally assaulted *far* too often going to the super market. I'm minding my business, picking out produce -- when someone's Yankee-dar goes off and they feel the need to come up to me and announce that they knew I was a Yankee and Yankees were rude and I should go back where I came from.
This was before I'd even opened my mouth - so the full essence of the Brooklyn/Long Island/New Jersey accent I'd developed had yet to hit them.
Blew my mind.
I'd venture to say that 90% of the people living down there would never dream of doing that to someone. But get hit with the other 10% often enough...