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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (9561)	4/10/1998 9:13:00 AM
From: DScottD	Respond to of 71178

I have several semi-humorous remarks. >>5. Don't be surprised to find movie rentals and bait in the same store.<< There is such a store about 5 miles from where my inlaws live in Kentucky. In Missouri, the much more lethal combination is the beer/ammo stores that do brisk business during turkey season, deer season, duck season, etc. >>9. There is nothing sillier than a Northerner imitating a southern accent, unless it is a southerner imitating a Boston accent.<< My father-in-law is from Cambridge, Massachusetts and retired to Kentucky about 20 years ago. The combination Boston/Southern accent is quite amusing. What's really fun is to hear the Boston accent speaking Southern dialect, y'all.. >>22. If there is the prediction of the slightest chance of even the most minuscule accumulation of snow, your presence is required at the local grocery store. It does not matter if you need anything from the store, it is just something you're supposed to do.<< This rule applies as far north as St. Louis, especially after the Blizzard of '82. A corollary is that even the hint that snow may be approaching will be the lead story on the local news. I've lived here almost 9 years and every predicted big snowstorm has been a bust. >>28. You can ask a Southerner for directions, but unless you already know the positions of key hills, trees and rocks, you're better off trying to find it yourself.<< True story. We had been living in St. Louis for less than a year. I asked someone I didn't know for directions to a local church or something and she could only give directions using landmarks. "Turn left at the Shell station" instead of "Turn left onto Main Street". Anyway, at one point she said something like "You take the first right past where the Sears used to be." I must have had a baffled look because the next words out of her mouth were something like "you know. Across the street from where the Dairy Queen was before they tore it down." I eventually broke down and bought a St. Louis street map. DScottD