| Author | Message | ||
     Hex |
Kathleen here: Was in Birmingham last weekend...to visit my Aunt. What I noticed was this: Everyone was SO nice. I mean really, really polite. Yes, Ma'am, no Ma'am. No one cuts you off in either conversation or the line at the store. Really? Is this how it is supposed to be? I am jaded. I guess that I have just become immune to these rude people in Cali... It was a pleasure being there. Thank you. Thank you. You made my heart smile with this "southerness", the BBQ and the SEC. | ||
| Nevrenuf |
just don't go to far south cause it doesn't get better down here in florida. that's why i want to move to hopefully the tennessee area one day. i am just so much more relaxed than being here in the tampa area. | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
Did anyone say "Bless your heart".  | ||
| Nevrenuf |
i thought only flo said that. or wait, is that kiss my grits. no wait maybe that was both. oh hell, i can't remember. | ||
| Fast1075 |
The really rude snotty people down here are the "transplants"...LOL | ||
| Dynasport |
Sometimes I miss sweet home Alabama | ||
| Xb1200rick |
We all carry guns , so we have to be nice to each other. Natural selection weeds out the mean people.  | ||
| Fltwistygirl |
Southern hospitality really does still exist despite the homogenization of the U.S. We like traveling to the Carolinas, TN, parts of GA because the people are so nice. +1 "it doesn't get better down here in FL". From here, ya gotta go north to get to the south. Even tho parts of FL tend to have southern hospitality and charm, a good part of it is like being up north, but with palm trees and the heat turned waaaay up. B. | ||
| Vanvideo |
I'm in Florida and the people are just fine here, thank you. North Florida is, paradoxically, more "southern" than the southern regions. Too many yankee transplants down there. | ||
| Nevrenuf |
you don't have to do no name calling van. just because i'm from pittsburgh, it doesn't really mean i'm to proud of that but don't tell my family that. that's why i want to be a halfback and head up to tennessee. oh and having been stationed in mayport for over a year, people weren't always exactly friendly to sailors back in 76. | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
I know southern women are the hottest on the planet. You just have to make sure to get one with teeth. | ||
| Swampy |
I love going south(Alabama), the people down there go out of their way to be nice....except in Florida, that lady from New York that I sat next to at the Pirates Dinner Theater, aparently she didn't like anything, including having to sit next to me. | ||
| Strokizator |
I was in Vonore,TN a few years ago on a job and if you made eye contact with anyone in traffic they'd wave at you (Hey y'all) Here in California making eye contact is seen as a challenge (Whachoo looking at?!?) Kind of refreshing at first but after a week I got tired of waving at perfect strangers and resorted to wearing dark sunglasses. | ||
| Nevrenuf |
and they even stop to let you out in traffic up there in tennessee too. | ||
| Etennuly |
and they even stop to let you out in traffic up there in tennessee too.  That was because you were blocking the driveway they wanted into! Neil it is true that it is much better than Tampa(where I spent fifteen years), but around here they think a ten minute wait in traffic on a Friday afternoon is a bad thing!  | ||
| Pwnzor |
Everywhere I go, without fail, is more friendly than the Los Angeles area of California. | ||
| Buellish |
Listen,next time ya'll are down here in Atlanta,just give us a call.We're in the book. We'll sit out on the porch and sip somthin'tall and cool. Ya'll do call,ya hear. | ||
| Malott442 |
I live 10 minutes south of Bham, and the traffic is more than enough to cause the jitters every day. If I don't move soon I will be dead by 40 just from the idiots behind the wheel. | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
Strokizator, a few years back on one of my trips over, myself & a few other Badweb types rented a place for the week near Deals Gap. On one of our rides we had to stop in Vonore as one of the guys lost some of the nuts off his X1 headers. We stopped at a Texaco garage there & the old guy who owned the place was really nice & helpful, he asked what size they were & I said 1/2 inch but you need a wobbly socket to get on them. He slowly turned where he was crouching by the bike, looked up at me & said "You ain't from around here are ya boy." Everybody cracked up laughing & it became the catchphrase for the rest of the trip. Lovely people. The one thing that really stood out for me though was all the "dead" cars parked by the houses. It appears that the custom in those parts is to just park it next to it's predecessor & cut the grass around them. | ||
| Nevrenuf |
just as long as there up on cynder blocks grump. | ||
| Buellish |
Mr Grumpy,as you have probably already figured out,cutting around the dead car means less time cutting and more time drinking beer. | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
 Grass was too long to tell. | ||
| Augustus74 |
I hate mean people. | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
I need to get back over the pond & down south, the Waffle House is calling me. | ||
| Fast1075 |
"If you mow the lawn and find a car...you might be a redneck"  | ||
| Fast1075 |
Neil...I'll sponsor your southern natualization papers for ya. | ||
| B00stzx3 |
When I moved from DC area to South Carolina...was shocked at the openess and niceness of folks down there. I'm moving back to Baltimore...believe it or not its north of DC and yet so much more friendlier (yeah its dangerous, but people for the most part are friendly, even the junkies!). And Marylands below the mason dixon line | ||
| Etennuly |
Jeff Foxworthy is not kidding in his joking about the South. The thing about mowing around the cars is that the grass grows so damn fast when we have a decent amount of rain, you will waste all of the gas in the car moving it around to keep it out of the way of the mower.  I mow about eight acres. When we have a lot of rain like this year has been doing thus far, it needs cut every five days or so. With the varieties of grasses and weeds that we have, it can grow a foot in seven or eight days. Having spent several years in Tampa, I think it is funny that I moved 600 miles North to be in the South!  | ||
| Xodot |
LOVE dropping down to GA and TN for the people. They are always so nice to me. They are more attractive than the amazing scenery and weather! Y'all got the complete package going fer ya! Oh... did I mention the sweet riding roads! God bless ya. | ||
| Ulywife |
I have a magnet on my fridge that reads "I'm as far north as I want to be". I'm quiet happy living back in NC. |
