Originally posted by storch
if you come to south florida and drive slowly I'll kick your ass. damn yankees.
well technically Im not a full blooded Yankee as I was born in North Carolina.
I just grew up in the north. But my loyalties have always been in the south.
Just think of me as a southern mole living in the north waiting for the day that The South Rises again LOL
Slow? Define slow, cause living up here and visiting down there I've discovered that northern slow is definately different then southern slow.
Thats the one thing I'd find hard getting used to. The pace.
Example. If I go into a supermarket here and am at the register getting my items rung up. it goes somethign like this
grab item "beep",grab item "beep",grab item "beep",grab item"beep"
and we think that pace is too slow
Yet whenever I gone into a supermarket in the south (and you typically have pretty crappy supermarkets btw) after you have waited behind 2 customers 1/2 hour to reach the register, as I've noticed on every single trip into one you realise the reason why.
It goes like this.
You would think they all went to the cashier school of Fred Norton the way they ring things up.
Cashier picks up item,looks at item,reads item scans item "beep" often 2 or 3 times because they cant find the code bars on a can of corn
Cashier picks up item,looks at item,reads item scans item "beep" often 2 or 3 times because they cant find the code bars on a bag of potatoe chips
Cashier picks up item,looks at item,reads item scans item "beep" often 2 or 3 times because they cant find the code bars on a Box of Pasta
Cashier picks up item,looks at item,reads item scans item "beep" often 2 or 3 times because they cant find the code bars on a bag of potatoe chips
Cashier picks up item,looks at item,reads item scans item "beep" often 2 or 3 times because they cant find the code bars on a 1 Gallon Milk container (How can you not be able to find the code bars on a 1 gallon milk container? There is only 1 flipping label on the thing!)
Eventually I get to the point where it takes just about all the self restraint I can muster to keep from doing my best Ralph Cramden, smacking the cashier and saying "Will you just scan the damn items already!"
Another thing I'd find hard getting used to as my sister who now lives in Va also has is the
"Good morning. How Y'all doing"
now up north we may here "Good morning how ya doing" In which the common responce is "Hi, How you doing" and thats it.
But down there when you are asked that. You mean it. You really are expected to tell how your doing. You actualy wait for an in depth responce!
Up here you dont give any kind of lengthy responce because quite frankly you know very well that nobody really gives a damn how your doing. They just want to get rid of the line thats in front of them
LOL
