Tips for Northerners Moving to the South

[Speechpath]

#21 is so funny, and so true!

My friend used to have a sign in her office that read, "I wasn't born in the south, but I sure got here as fast as I could" I always loved that!

[MeezDiscreet]

Originally posted by Sistermadly
16. If attending a funeral, remember, Southerners stay until the last shovel of dirt is thrown on and the tent is torn down.

VERY true!

20. The winter wardrobe you always brought out in September can wait until November.

sooo true. i'm in houston and i was wearing capris just last week. but let me add that when the temp drops to sixty degrees, don't be surprised to see leather jackets.

21. If there is the prediction of the slightest chance of even the most minuscule accumulation of snow, your presence is required at the local grocery store. It does not matter if you need anything from the store, it is just something you're supposed to do.

yep, same for rain. my mom, who's up in dallas which is my hometown, called one day and said "i saw on the news that it's supposed to rain real bad down there. have you been to the store yet. you better hurry before it gets too bad."

22. Satellite dishes are very popular in the South. When you purchase one it is to be positioned directly in front of your trailer. This is logical, bearing in mind that the dish cost considerably more than the trailer and should, therefore, be displayed.

could be true but pleeeease don't think we all live in trailer homes.

27. You can ask a Southerner for directions, but unless you already know the positions of key hills, trees and rocks, you're better off trying to find it yourself.

yep! and will have the nerve to draw you a map of stuff you have no idea how to identify! my dad has that bad.

[AOIIsilver]

yep! and will have the nerve to draw you a map of stuff you have no idea how to identify!

And the map will include such notable landmarks as "where the ol beer joint used to be" or "where that tree was that was hit by lighting and burned to the ground." I still have NO idea where have of the things are in my town because they all begin with a landmark that burned some 25 years ago....
Silver

[AWJDZ]

Originally posted by Jill1228
I am not SSS1365 but I gotta represent Southern VA! I grew up in Virginia Beach. My mom still lives there

really? where do you live now? I have a bunch of friends who live in VA beach. I live in NC, and my friends think it is crazy that our area of the state does not have counties or townships. It is a regualar drunken fight over it...until I pull out the map.

This list is all too true...even more so now that I live in eastern NC!

[ZTAngel]

Originally posted by Sistermadly
9. There is nothing sillier than a Northerner imitating a Southern accent, unless it is a Southerner imitating a Boston accent.

Or a Southerner imitating an Upper-Midwestern accent. My friend went to Minneapolis for 3 days about one year ago and she still speaks with the accent that she supposedly "picked up" while there. It's like, dude, you grew up in Birmingham!

[Tom Earp]

Love Tenn.

But try driving down the road and see a Land Mark sign and no damn place to stop and read it as is at road edge.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally posted by preciousjeni
Is it mahr-ee-ah-nah??

More or less...my neighbor just gave up and started calling her "Maury"

[preciousjeni]

Originally posted by AlphaFrog
More or less...my neighbor just gave up and started calling her "Maury"

What's the "more or less"? Is the "r" rolled?

[AlphaFrog]

Originally posted by preciousjeni
What's the "more or less"? Is the "r" rolled?

Yeah, it's just hard to put Spanish into English

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally posted by Tippiechick
It said nothing about the fact that we always pull to the shoulder of the road when a funeral procession passes. It's just so respectful.

I thought everybody did this.

[Tippiechick]

Apparantly not. My sister from MI thought it was so strange when she first moved down. She said it was a "Southern Thing." Up until that point, I had assumed it was a universally adopted behavior. I thought everyone in the US did it. She said that was not true, though.

[honeychile]

When my mother had her first heart attack last January, hardly anyone pulled over for the ambulance! The driver was happy to see that two of the offenders were pulled over & given tickets. FYI, because of this, she was DOA when we got to the hospital, but bless the Lord, was revived - to scare us several more times!

[rebelsweetheart]

Originally posted by MSKKG
Cute list, especially #23!

Actually, no one I know uses "y'all" as singular, so I would consider that wrong.

haha, I always say y'all singular, but most people don't and all of my friends make fun of me for it.



Anyways, I think the main difference between the north and the south is basic manners. I'm not saying that northerns have no manners, but like my aunt (from Boston) came down here to visit for Christmas and was amazed that guys open doors and help girls and everything. I think in the south people are a little more friendly too, like a lot of times complete strangers will like smile at each other and always end up talking in like an elevator or whatever...but the few times I've been up north it seems like they don't do this. Oh and I got a flat tire on the side of a highway and soo many people stopped and asked if they could help.