Rockingham
Remembered
Short
Stories II
Are You A North
Carolinian?
Things I've learned from living in North Carolina.....

*Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their
feet in the air.

*There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live in
North Carolina.

*There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in
North Carolina, plus a couple no one's seen before.

*Unknown critters love to dig holes under tomato
plants.


*Raccoons will test your crop of melons and let you
know when they are ripe.


*If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls; it bites.


*A tractor is NOT an all-terrain vehicle. They do get
stuck.


*Onced and Twiced are words.


*It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy.


*People actually grow and eat okra.


*''Fixinto" is one word.


*There ain't no such thing as "lunch". There's only
dinner and then there's supper.


*Sweet Tea is appropriate for all meals... and you
start drinking it when you're 2.


*Backwards and forwards means I know everything
about you.


*"Jeet?" is actually a phrase meaning "Did you eat?"


*You don't have to wear a watch because it doesn't
matter what time it is. You work until you're done or
it's too dark to see.



More about North Carolinians....


You know you're from North Carolina if:


1. You measure distance in minutes.


2. You've had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the
same day.


3. You know what a 'tar heel' is.


4. You see a car running in the parking lot at the store
with no one in it, no matter what time of the year.


5. You use "fix" as a verb. Example: I am fixing to go to
the store.


6. All the festivals across the state are named after a
fruit,   vegetable, grain, insect or animal.


7. You install security lights on your house and
garage.... and leave both unlocked.


8. You carry jumper cables in your car... for your
OWN car.


9. You know what "cow tipping" is .


10. You only own four spices: salt, pepper, Texas Pete
and catsup.


11. The local papers cover national and international
news on one page but requires 6 pages for local gossip
and sports.


12. You think that the first day of deer season is a
national holiday.


13. You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit "a little warm."


14. You know all four seasons: Almost summer,
summer, still summer, and Christmas.


15. You know whether another North Carolinian is
from east, west, or middle North Carolina as soon as
they open their mouth or by the barbecue they eat.


16. Going to Wal-mart is a favorite pass time known
as "goin wal-martin" or off to"Wally World" .


17. You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees)
as good pinto-bean weather.


18. Fried Catfish is the other white meat.