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Phone: (919) 875-3062.
From Patricia Sides, Seagrove
- You lay in the grass and watch the clouds go by and name the shapes.
- You make a necklace out of wild daisies.
- Daddy took you for a ride on the riding mower to the corner curb market.
- Daddy sent you to the corner gas station with 40 cents to put in the machine to get a pack of Pall Malls, because you love to pull the handle and hear them drop.
- The men folk call it “galavantin’” when they go out on Saturday night. And the other folks say they’re “scooter-pootin’” when they do it.
- You do OK with three channels on the black and white TV.
From Steven Preddy (teenager), Franklinton
- You are leaning over the tailgate of a Dodge throwing up so it won’t get his rear bumper dirty while your brother drives you around.
- You put ATV tires on the rear end of your Poulan lawnmower so it won’t get stuck mowing the barn pasture.
- Your nickname has nothing to do with your real name or anything you did.
From Guy & Darlene Brittain, Connelly Springs
- You caught bumblebees in the Rose of Sharon blossoms and shook them up, then let them loose.
- You get hold of a chicken snake while gathering eggs.
- You cracked hickory nuts and picked out the goodies with a bobby pin.
- For picking huckleberries, you put a joint of stovepipe on each leg to keep away the rattlesnake.
- You call your car trunk a “cooter shell.”
- Your mom parches you some goobers in the woodstove after supper.
- You buy five gallons of root beer mix from the Watkins salve man.
From Monique Smith, Erwin
- You know that “mustard” is not only the yellow stuff in bottle that you put on hot dogs, but it is a type of green vegetable.
- You sat on the front porch with your grandmother to help her do some cannin’.
From Kathy Ramirez, Greene County
- You thought your forehead was your “fard.”
From Connie L. Lowry, Siler City
- You call your Sunday School book a “quartly.”
- Your Mom calls and you will be there “da-reckly.”
- You get a new frock for Easter.
From Renee C. Gannon, Wake Forest (formerly of Concord)
- You called Mopeds “likker cycles” because men who had lost their driver’s license from a DWI puttered those motorized bicycles around town.
From Alice Webb, Fayetteville
- You know what a taw and an aggie and a cat’s eye are (marbles).
- You had a cat hole in the back door.
- You know what Jack rocks are and what a Jack leg mechanic is.
- You called loaf bread “light bread.”
- You know where the jumping-off place is and someone who has gone there.
- You know someone who has gone over fool’s hill.
- You have cooled off in a rain barrel in summer.
- You know what “wool gathering” means (daydreaming).
From Beth Croom, Pikeville
- Your grandmother told you that a man called “Raw Head and Bloody Bones” lived in the woods behind your house just to keep you from playing in there.
- The highlight of your day is waiting for R.B. Crawford to open the store at 5:00 in the afternoon.
- You know what a speckle ball is.
- You know what a “round and a thru” is.
- You know what “the short rows” are.
- You consider potted meat a delicacy.
- You buy your car tires from Nahunta Grocery.
From Janet Hunter, Clinton
- You know the term “like a duck on a june bug.”
- You’ve had a chainey ball fight with your cousins.
- You know the difference between a square nab and a round nab.
- You know what it means when your ma is fixin’ to snatch a nappy knot in your behind.
- You know what it means if you hear or see something that makes your teeth sharp.
- You’ve used sidemeat to draw out the rust when stepping on a nail.
From Mary Meadows, Teachey
- You’ve eaten mullet gizzards and rice.
- All of your school clothes came from the mill end store or were home-made.
- Your grandparents heated red linament and drank it for colds and flu.
- You flattened tin cans to nail over the top of fence posts.
- You dried rabbit tobacco on the tin roof of the chicken house.
- You like cow butter with wild onions in it.
- You picked the corn flakes out of sweet feed and ate them.
- You rode the bus to school, and your big brother drove it.
- You wove palmetto hats, fans and baskets.
- Your hair was curled with factory cloth strips.
- You had chinaberry fights every day.
- When you got in trouble you had to memorize Bible verses and recite them.
From Cathy Wallace Crumpler, Mount Olive
- You walked behind your father’s John Deere tractor while he was plowing land just to cool your feet in the freshly plowed soil.
- You walked the side of an oil drum and scraped your knees.
- You rode to the beach with your feet hanging out the window.
- You made mud pies (mud chicken legs, mud potatoes or whatever was on the menu) with a Pepsi bottle of water, sandy dirt and Mama’s old pie tins.
- You made hula skirts from “chainey ball” tree limbs so you could pretend you were in an exotic place.
- You climbed pecan trees to retrieve cats, bomb your sister with pecans or just to look down the road to see if the mailman was coming.
- You ate dinner on the ground at your church’s homecoming and looked for a tailgate to sit on to enjoy your meal or a shade tree to keep you cool, then listened to visiting singers for a couple of hours and didn’t feel like you had other things to do.
From Kelli Tschillier Friday, Dallas, North Carolina
- When visiting relatives in northern states you’re asked where you got your accent and you tell them you brought it with you in a Y’all Haul.
- You know that canned green beans don’t come in an aluminum can at MaMaw’s.
- You cross the state line to buy your shoes at The Jesus Store.
- You have pictures of your favorite livestock, both here and gone, in your family albums.
- Your husband’s tractor is parked in the yard be side your car.
- Your husband has two tractors, two old Army jeeps and a ‘68 Pontiac in the barn as “Projects.”
- You had to take two cases of Sun-Drop with you to Myrtle Beach because once you got past Pageland you couldn’t find it anywhere.
- Your city relatives are shocked that you actually want that old blacksnake in your barn.
- Your relatives include MaMaw, PaPaw, MeeMaw, PeePaw, Great Maw and Poppy.
- Your PaPaw called you “Snickelfritz”, "Pookanellie” or “Pickletoes,” and you now address your kids likewise.
- Your MaMaw had the right to whoop you like you were her own.
From Sammy Bailey, Wingate
- Your mother would fuss if you stood with the frigidairy open.
- You and your father made poppers for your bicycle spokes out of paper and clothes pins.
- When plowing the garden, you never dig up the volunteer tomatoes.
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