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Here is “Round 38” 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)
• Round Thirty-six (September 2007)
• Round Thirty-seven (October 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 Nancy Bodenheimer, Kernersville

• You had a cake walk at your school on a Saturday night as a fundraiser.
• You brought down a hornets nest, stopped it up, took it to your church during summer revival, pulled out the stopper, then threw it through an open window.
• You put a forked stick on your cow’s neck to prevent her from milking herself.
• Your pet goat followed you a half mile to the bus stop, then came back to meet you when you got off the bus after school.
• You know you’ve been good if you’ve been “walkin’ the chalk line.”
• You’re spending too much time with your mama when she says, “Quit hanging on like a calf on a tit.”
• You like to look out the winder.

From Melissa Taylor, Tarboro

• You know not to assume that the car with the flashing turn signal is actually going to make a turn.
• Your favorite movies are “Fried Green Tomatoes,” “Driving Miss Daisy,” “Steel Magnolias” and “Gone with the Wind.”
• You become best friends with someone while standing in the check-out line at your supermarket.

From Nell Murray, Liberty

• You pinched the little green end off a honey sucker and the little drop of sweet juice went in your mouth.
• You rubbed a chunk of fatback meat on a chigger bite and snuff on a bee sting.
• You made hoppy-toad houses by packing sand over the top of your foot and gently sliding your foot out.
• You climbed to the top of a slim sapling tree and swung over.
  
• After your family visited another family and you started to leave, they would say “Yaw-uns come back when you can.”

From Becky Deans, Zebulon

• Your parents taught you to be respectful of and pray for those who don’t have as much as you do.
  From Peggy Edwards, Lumberton
• You saved brown paper bags to cut in strips and use as hair rollers.
• You hauled water in 50-gallon barrels to set out tobacco by hand setters.
• You cooked on a two-burner oil stove.
• You loved eating salt mullets and baked sweet potato.
• You hung sausage, liver pudding and hams in the smoke house.

From Eddie Riffle, Indian Trail

• Your mama would not let you in the house until you had pulled all the hitchhikers and petticoat creepers from your clothes.
• After a couple days of hard rain you and your cousins would play in a huge deep mud pit in the low spot of the pasture.
• After picking cotton all day long you waited by the scales for your pay.
• You took to your granddaddy a mason jar of ice water while he was plowing the fields.
• Your grandmother had a single shot .22 that made all the squirrels in her pecan trees very nervous.
• You looked for arrowheads while bustin’ up clods behind your granddaddy’s tractor.
• You flew in a crop duster that landed on the road in front of your house.
• Your favorite meal is a platter of cold fried chicken, pimento cheese sandwiches and fresh young spring onions.
• You swam with the snakes in grandma’s pond.
• You bailed hay with a tractor, stacked it on a wagon, then threw the bales up in the barn loft and drank ice cold grape Kool Aid in the shade.

From Selma Braddy, Tideland Electric

• You used matchboxes as cars and played with them under the porch in the dirt.
• Girls made playhouses using sticks and strings to separate each room.
• Clothes were recycled to wear with patches of many colors to cover worn out holes.
• Everyone used the same water dipper at the ‘backer barn.
• Comzie Comzie was your favorite game to play when your electricity was off.
• You picked up a soda bottle in the ditch and traded it for a Pall Mall cigarette at the old store down the road.
• You ran through a tall cornfield during a hail storm trying to find your way home.

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