- Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the
air.
- There are 5000 types of snakes, and 4998 live in South Carolina.
- There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in South Carolina,
plus a couple that nobody has seen before.
- Squirrels will eat anything.
- 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.
- Fire ants consider your flesh a picnic.
- People actually grow and eat okra.
- "Fixinto" is one word.
- There ain't no such thing as "lunch." There's "dinner"
and then there's "supper."
- Sweet tea is appropriate for all meals, and you start drinking it
when you're two.
- "Backards 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.
You know you're from South Carolina if:
- You measure distance in minutes.
- You've ever had to switch from heat to air conditioning in the same
day.
- You see a car running in a store parking lot with no one in it no
matter what time of the year.
- You use "fix" as a verb. Example: I am fixing to go to
the store.
- All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable,
grain, insect or animal.
- You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both
unlocked.
- You carry jumper cables in your car... for your OWN car.
- You know what "cow tipping" is.
- You only own four spices: salt, pepper, Texas Pete and catsup.
- The local papers cover national and international news on one page
and six pages for local gossip and sports.
- Your think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
- You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit "a little warm."
- You know all four seasons: almost summer, summer, still summer,
and Christmas.
- Going to Wal-mart is a favorite past time known as "Goin'wal-martin"
or "Off to ' Wally World'."
- You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good pinto-bean
weather.
- A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola, or pop...it's a Coke,
regardless of brand or flavor. Example: "What kinna coke you
want?"
- Fried Catfish is the other white meat.
- You understand these and forward them to your friends from SC (and
those who just wish they were)
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