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Here is “Round 36” of your insights into how to know if someone is from North Carolina. You may also want to check out:

• Round One (February 2004)
• Round Two (March 2004)
• Round Three (May 2004)
• Round Four (July 2004)
• Round Five (August 2004)
• Round Six (September 2004)
• Round Seven (November 2004)
• Round Eight (January 2005)
• Round Nine (February 2005)
• Round Ten (March 2005)
• Round Eleven (April 2005)
• Round Twelve (May 2005)
• Round Thirteen (June 2005)
• Round Fourteen (August 2005)
• Round Fifteen (September 2005)
• Round Sixteen (October 2005)
• Round Seventeen (November 2005)
• Round Eighteen (December 2005)
• Round Nineteen (January 2006)
• Round Twenty (February 2006)
• Round Twenty-one (March 2006)
• Round Twenty-two (April 2006)
• Round Twenty-three (May 2006)
• Round Twenty-four (June 2006)
• Round Twenty-five (July 2006)
• Round Twenty-six (August 2006)
• Round Twenty-seven (September 2006)
• Round Twenty-eight (October 2006)
• Round Twenty-nine (November 2006)
• Round Thirty (December 2006)
• Round Thirty-one (January 2007)
• Round Thirty-two (March 2007)
• Round Thirty-three (June 2007)
• Round Thirty-four (July 2007)
• Round Thirty-five (August 2007)

If you can think of anything to add to this list, send it to us:

E-mail: Carolina.country@ncemcs.com
Mail: P.O. Box 27306, Raleigh, NC 27611.
Phone: (919) 875-3062.

From Michael Taylor

• You know what a boxed pine is. (A pine tree that has cuts in the trunk to collect pine sap and tar.)
• You think that potted meat on a saltine is an hors d’oeuvre.
• The directions to your house include “turn off the paved road.”
• You think that John Deere Green, Ford Blue, and Primer Gray are three of the primary colors.
  
• You have to cross the state line to buy real fireworks.
• You say “cut off” the light instead of “turn off” the light.

From Chasidy Williams, Elkin

• Your grandma washes her car in the rain for “free water.”
• When you go to Wal-Mart you know just about everyone there.
• Over half the students in your high school are your cousins.

From Melissa Heath, Harrells

• You need to stob them maters with ‘bakker sticks and panty hoses.
• You dig them there taters with a tablespoon.
• You plant oakries.
• You tell your young’ns to get in the house right now or you’ll tear their tails up.
• You don’t work on Sunday unless the ox is in the ditch.

From Sharon Hardin, Rutherfordton

• Your grandpa says, “Let’s go put our feet in that thar crik yonder.”
• Your grandparents’ big garden on a hill is full of their grown children and little grandchildren picking up taters barefooted.
• You look outside one snowy winter day and see your cousin riding a dirt bike on the road with another cousin tied behind him sliding down the road on an old car hood.
• Your grandparents met the preacher on the road and got married in a side ditch.
• When you’re surprised, you say, “Law mercy!”

From Jill Lambert, Lexington

• You can still make a late night ice-cream run in your pj’s up to the local store and actually meet someone doing the same.
• You’ve crawled under a shopper’s car at Food Lion to help identify the source of their antifreeze leak.
• You dwindle away at least 40 hours a season squirrel-proofing your feeders.
• A piece of broken equipment is not fit for the landfill until it’s passed through at least four neighbors to pick it for parts.
• Your mama still believes you don’t smoke or drink, but your father has always assumed otherwise.

From Betsy Herron, Wadesboro

• As a preacher, you work on your sermon while in a deer stand.
• Your wife feeds deer meat to the visiting revival preacher, but she doesn’t let on that’s what it is, even when he asks for seconds.
• You have prayed with someone while working in your garden.
• You don’t have preachin’ on the fifth Sunday because you serve at least three churches on your charge.
• Your church has a sangin’ to raise funds for someone in need.
  
• You have funeralized someone who passed away.
• Your men’s group fixes chicken and dumplin’s for a fundraiser.
• Your women’s group has pounded someone in your church.
• Your parsonage is within 50 yards of a turkey farm.
• You travel through three counties to visit folks in the hospital for surgery.
• A parishioner gives you a gallon of homemade scuppernong wine and wants to know if you can use it for communion.

From Iris Gentry, Lowgap

• You go to the Surry-Yadkin Electric Membership meeting in October and get a refund check and a ticket that might win you a nice prize.

From Lakola Cook, Shannon

• To help someone is to “hope” them.
• Those sand nants will eat you alive.
• When the woods catch “far,” you don’t call the fire department, you run those buckets down yonder.

From Jeremy and Heather King, Mount Olive

• Your husband and two of his cousins have the same middle name.
• Your wife ain’t afraid to bait her own hook or take the fish off.
• The whole family gets together to pick ice taters.
• Your Granny chased you with a fly swatter.
  
• When all the family gets together you do a little pickin’ and grinnin’.

From Jami Chambers, Bear Grass

• You know the Cypress Grill in Jamesville has the best herring around.
• You refer to Washington, N.C., as Little Washington.

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