You might be a “Southie” if...

[WestTNriverrat]

To help the Southie understand us I will make the needed changes.

Heinz ketchup.

It is not merely a spice. It is a necessity like salt and pepper. Also anything but Heinz is a cheap imitation.

Barbecue is a verb.

Moon pies are gross.


I thought RC cola went defunct around 1968


Football coaches should be paid no more than the head janitor.

Tomatoes should never be the main item in a sandwich. @1muttsfan is a closet Southie!!!

All the people I know have feed store caps.

WD40 is the ketchup of the shop. It goes on everything.

Get a can of fluid film and you’ll never need wd40 again. You can thank me later.

 

[microchick]

Not in Illinois. Couldn't get somebody to wave back at you where we used to live if your life depended on it. If I waved there they would stare right at me and then through me. It was pretty creepy, really. If we were on our bikes things were different. Everybody knew us then and would wave.

Does anybody have any experience waving at people in the big cities, KC, Ste Lou for instance or maybe Columbia/Springfield?

@SueT, we are vintage VW owners also! DH has an 86 Jetta that gets 50 miles to the gallon. It looks it's age but when people brag about their new whatever brand of gas guzzler and he tells them about the mileage he gets with his little car the guys all shake their heads and say,DANG, wish I could find one of those!

Also what's different here is that men when meeting you at a store entrance and there isn't auto opening doors, they will politely hold the door open for me, Touch the brim of their caps and with a polite nod, say 'ma'am' to me. That just blew my mind when it first happened. Back 'east' across the Big Miss they would trample you to get in the door first.

If there are auto opening doors they will step aside and let you pass first and still touch the brims of their hats. Just freakin awesome when that happens. I had to learn to politely nod back at them and say thank'ya, sir instead of giving them a response like...well good to see that chivalry is still dead here! Granted, that is not 100% absolute but it happens 75% of the time here in Missouri.

Southie is just......different.....

 

[1muttsfan]

Maybe not all southie locations wave at oncoming traffic. Pretty much happens all over up here, except where city folks from downstate insert themselves. Seems to scare them to be noticed.

 

[Molpet]

Not in Illinois. Couldn't get somebody to wave back at you where we used to live if your life depended on it. If I waved there they would stare right at me and then through me. It was pretty creepy, really. If we were on our bikes things were different. Everybody knew us then and would wave.

Does anybody have any experience waving at people in the big cities, KC, Ste Lou for instance or maybe Columbia/Springfield?

@SueT, we are vintage VW owners also! DH has an 86 Jetta that gets 50 miles to the gallon. It looks it's age but when people brag about their new whatever brand of gas guzzler and he tells them about the mileage he gets with his little car the guys all shake their heads and say,DANG, wish I could find one of those!

Also what's different here is that men when meeting you at a store entrance and there isn't auto opening doors, they will politely hold the door open for me, Touch the brim of their caps and with a polite nod, say 'ma'am' to me. That just blew my mind when it first happened. Back 'east' across the Big Miss they would trample you to get in the door first.

If there are auto opening doors they will step aside and let you pass first and still touch the brims of their hats. Just freakin awesome when that happens. I had to learn to politely nod back at them and say thank'ya, sir instead of giving them a response like...well good to see that chivalry is still dead here! Granted, that is not 100% absolute but it happens 75% of the time here in Missouri.

Southie is just......different.....

I'm in Illinois. 50 miles south or west of me people still wave. They used to wave here when I was a kid. Too many people now to wave at everyone now I guess

 

[SueT]

DH has an 86 Jetta that gets 50 miles to the gallon.

Ha! Well do other Jetta people wave? To us, an '86 VW is late model..... (tho we do have a 91 Vanagon, but in spite of its historic license plate, it's positively modern!)
This is what I mean by VWs

 

[SueT]

Deep south may have nutria, but at least Missouri has swamp rabbits....

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Deep south may have nutria, but at least Missouri has swamp rabbits....

that is cool!
I never heard of those. I would have been in absolute shock if I had saw a rabbit jump into the water and swim like that!

 

[neo71665]

Not in Illinois. Couldn't get somebody to wave back at you where we used to live if your life depended on it. If I waved there they would stare right at me and then through me. It was pretty creepy, really. If we were on our bikes things were different. Everybody knew us then and would wave.

Does anybody have any experience waving at people in the big cities, KC, Ste Lou for instance or maybe Columbia/Springfield?

@SueT, we are vintage VW owners also! DH has an 86 Jetta that gets 50 miles to the gallon. It looks it's age but when people brag about their new whatever brand of gas guzzler and he tells them about the mileage he gets with his little car the guys all shake their heads and say,DANG, wish I could find one of those!

Also what's different here is that men when meeting you at a store entrance and there isn't auto opening doors, they will politely hold the door open for me, Touch the brim of their caps and with a polite nod, say 'ma'am' to me. That just blew my mind when it first happened. Back 'east' across the Big Miss they would trample you to get in the door first.

If there are auto opening doors they will step aside and let you pass first and still touch the brims of their hats. Just freakin awesome when that happens. I had to learn to politely nod back at them and say thank'ya, sir instead of giving them a response like...well good to see that chivalry is still dead here! Granted, that is not 100% absolute but it happens 75% of the time here in Missouri.

Southie is just......different.....

My Grannys would raise up from the dead and fight to who would beat me first if I didn't hold a door open for a female or say ma'am/sir.

Deep south may have nutria, but at least Missouri has swamp rabbits....

I'm down in southern arkansas and we have swamp rabbits. I've seen them as far south as some of the places I've coon hunted on the Arky/Louisiana border. Good eating.

 

[room onthebroom]

DH also feels compelled to strike up conversations w everyone we meet everywhere. I keep reminding him about social distancing, but he can't help himself and can't seem to tear himself away. I usually tell him to stay home and let me run errands, because I'm much better at being anti-social.

Hmmm... It’s possible we married the same man.

Everyone in my neighborhood waves at each other, but once you get off my culdesac all bets are off.

As far a big cities go, the people here in San Diego are far more casual & friendly than the people up in LA. When I lived in LA you did not even look at people let alone wave to them.

Total contrast, DH’s extended family is from WV. It’s like that movie Elizabethtown where you know no one, but they all know you. Kinda creepy for a city girl to have everyone waving at you & pulling over to say hi & the cashiers in Walmart saying, “you must be Paul’s boy & his wife from California.” I haven’t been back there in years... maybe it’s different now, but I doubt it.

 

[duluthralphie]

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So this is obviously not a real thing, but a joke that came from the Far Side. Don’t know the story/cause about the @duluthralphie hatred of dux, but saw this and wondered...it is really hatred, or just a fear?

It is a logical result for anyone smart enough to know how dangerous dux are.