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Here is “Round 39” 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)
• Round Thirty-eight (November 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 Susan Bostian, Mocksville

• There is a bike ramp into your pond.
• You knock out a wall so your pool table will fit.
• Your mother named you after your brother’s imaginary friend.
• Your grocery store sells deer corn.
• Your barn is nicer than your house.
• Your granny mixes cocoa and sugar, so the kids can pretend they are dipping snuff.
• The maintenance man from your high school drives the Gator down the hallways.
• It takes two people to light the gas grill, and one always gets burnt.
• Your husband asks for a towel while using a Skilsaw, so you know you are going to the hospital.
• Your children play Hide-and-Seek on 4-wheelers.

From Jeannette Williams, Lumbee River EMC

• You say “hose pipe” instead of “water hose.”

From Ozelle G. Sotelo, Morganton

• You put on your bathing suit and have your picture taken in a two-foot snowfall.

From Crystal Allen, Currie

• Someone you know lives “plum and nearly.”
• You can walk to a store and buy a pack of Nabs, a Coke, a lottery ticket, crickets and bloodworms all at the same place.
• You’ve ever been wore slam out after a day of work.
• You spend summers mud slinging in the Burnt Islands, swimming in the river, picking strawberries, and doing cannonballs off the bridge at the Drop Off.
• Your whole family loves getting together to shell peas in the kitchen and watch “Price is Right.”
• When something meets your fancy you say it’s “gooder than snuff, but not near as dusty.”

From Joanie White, St. Pauls

• You know not to wash clothes on New Year’s Day because you will wash someone out of your family.
• People who don’t want you to know they are asleep are resting their eyes.
• Someone who has lost a lot of weight looks “right poor.”
• Someone says they will dance at your next wedding because you have done them a big favor.
• You know what “Ten-Cent Millionaires” are.

From Angie Clark, Connelly Springs

• A night out on the town with your husband includes getting tattoos.
• You know where George Hildebran is.
• You call the trunk of the car the cooter shell.
• Your refrigerator is called the cabinator.
• Your nicknames are “Tater Bug,” “Bubba,” or “Toot-toot.”
• Your husband tries to move a refrigerator out of the house by himself.

From Selma Braddy, Tideland Electric

• The bird singing below your bedroom window is your alarm clock.
• Birds mess up the clean clothes you just hung on your clothesline and you have to rewash.
• You have more noise makers than city people have, especially dogs barking and 4-wheelers.
• Bags are smaller at the grocery store, but prices keep going up.
• The older you get the more you have to do.

From Steve Swain, Pinetown

• You get a cell phone call from someone who dialed the wrong number, but it’s OK because you know who it is anyway.

From Brenda McKean, Timberlake

• In an elevator you say, “Mash Number 2, please.”
• When your daddy chops off its head, the chicken always runs right to you.
• Your great-grandmother makes the best pumpkin pies in her cast-iron stove.
• Every summer you step barefoot on a bee or in chicken dung.
• You make a play house out of the old hen house and wind up itching all night.
• You pile three adults and seven kids in the neighbor’s car to go to the nearest swimming hole where the pond is fed by a spring and its cold!
• You sling an old rug over a honeysuckle vine-covered fence and have an instant horse.

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