Things I Learnt In Alabama
My post below came to me in the form of an email from an old friend. Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air. There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live in Alabama. There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in Alabama, plus a couple no one's seen before. If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites. Onced and Twiced are words. It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy. And let us never forget, it's not a garden hose or simply hose, it's a "hosepipe" (one word). Fire ants consider your flesh as a picnic. People actually grow and eat okra. Mamanem means the whole family. ("Are mamanem comin?") There ain't no such thing as "lunch". There's only dinner and Then there's supper. Backards and forwards means I know everything about you. Jeet? is actually a phrase meaning "Did you eat yet?" You know you're from Alabama if: 1. You measure distance in minutes. 2. You've ever had to swi...