Ways to tell you’re a New Yorker living in Greenville North Carolina 1. You’ve come to accept that there are four main families from North Carolina that everything is named after including streets, sports complexes, auto dealerships, and yes, people. 2. You’ve routinely learned to ask for “no cheese, no mayo” on EVERYTHING you order including dishes which should never have such ingredients. 3. Whenever you prepare to interact with (fill in retail service person) you start gearing up for the friendly southern “chit chat” that precedes all transactions. 4. When you see a group of college kids having a bible study in Starbucks it is not surprising. 5. You’ve learned to control your hair trigger road rage because that nut job in the pick-up that just cut you off is probably armed to the teeth. 6. You rejoice at the site of a single snowflake as you’re sure it means work is closed for four days. 7. You’ve learned to accept what is called a “traffic jam” in Greenville is actually a very light traffic day in New York City. 8. You drive to everything…even to the mailbox. 9. You’ve given up on there being seasons and just come to accept that there is summer, and then variations on that theme. 10. You no longer feel bad that you just blurted out exactly what you want from (fill in retail service person) without pretending to chitchat one iota despite coming off as “very rude.”
Posted on: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 19:54:05 +0000