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# You know Pepsi originated in New Bern, Cheerwine in Salisbury, and that Mountain Dew was invented in Lumberton. # You know Coke tastes better in the little bottles and that peanuts make Coke taste even better. # You have an opinion about UNC. You went there and loved it, or you hate everyone who did. # Your folks have taken trips to the mountains to look at leaves. # Your school took a field trip to the State Fair in Raleigh. # You would elect Richard Petty or Ric Flair for governor if either ever ran. # You watched as Dale Earnhardt was the only man who ever lived who could go 200 mph, spin somebody out, call them a you-know-what, and win the race, all in the last lap. # You skipped school or work to go to Dale Earnhardt’s memorial service. # A tobaggon to you means a knit cap, not a sled. # You sold Krispy Kreme doughnuts for a school or church fundraiser before those glazed doughnuts went global. # When you're traveling out of state, people ask if you're from Mayberry. # You remember watching the ACC Tournament on television at school. # The local newspaper covers state, national and international news in one page, but sports requires six pages. # Most men in town consider the first day of deer season a national holiday. # Fifty degrees Fahrenheit is “a little chilly.” # You have no problem spelling or pronouncing “Conetoe” or “Topsail.” # Your school classes were canceled because of cold. # Your school classes were canceled because of heat. # Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waitin’ to pass a tractor on the highway. # Your school classes were canceled because of a hurricane. # Your school classes were canceled because of hunting season. Your school classes were canceled because of a livestock show. # You’ve ridden the school bus for an hour...each way. # You know more about ACC basketball than professional basketball. # You know the Carolina League is the greatest baseball league in the country. # You think South Carolina was dead weight well shed. # You know tea is served sweet unless you specifically ask for unsweetened. # You’ve ever had to switch from “Heat” to “A/C” in the same day. # You think ethanol makes your truck run a lot better. # Stores don’t have bags...they have sacks and are called Piggly Wigglys. # You see people wearing bib overalls at funerals. # You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it, no matter what time of the year. # Most of the festivals around the state are named after a fruit, vegetable or tobacco. # Priming was your first job...and you know what it means. # Your idea of a really great tenderloin is when the meat is twice as big as the bun and comes with cole slaw on top. # You say catty-wampus, yunto, ill-ass and ah-ite. # You know the difference between a deer dog, a bear dog and a coon dog by the way they bark. # You put security lights on your house and your garage and leave both of them unlocked. # Your four seasons are almost summer, summer, still summer, and highway construction. # You can tell if another North Carolinian is from Eastern or Western North Carolina as soon as he opens his mouth. # You can spell words such as Ocracoke, Fuquay-Varina and Chocowinity. # When asked how your trip to any foreign, exotic place was you say, “It was different.” # Hyde County is considered a foreign or exotic place. # In the Piedmont, you see all the grown-ups go out and play in the snow. # Schools and churches hold barbecue fundraisers with banana puddin’ as the dessert. # Your folks would rather eat at Bojangles’s than McDonald’s. # You have actually uttered the phrase, “It’s too hot to go to the pool.” # You consider being a “Pork Queen” an honor. # You carry jumper cables in your car. # You faithfully drink Pepsi or Mt. Dew every day of your life. # You know what “cow tipping” is. # You have your own secret BBQ sauce. # You or your neighbors have more hunting dogs than you have family members.
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