Things you need to know about a Georgia and Georgians...
1. Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the
air. We do not dodge cats.
2. There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live in Georgia.
3. There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in Georgia plus a couple no one's seen before.
4. Squirrels will eat anything. A cat that don’t eat a squirrel is not dodged.
5. Unknown critters love to dig holes under tomato plants.
Most likely a hard shelled possum.
6. Raccoons will test your garden and let you know when
everything is ripe.
7. If it grows, it sticks; If it crawls, it bites.
8. “Onced” and “twiced” are words.
9. It is not a shopping cart; it is a buggy.
10. Fire ants consider your flesh as a picnic.
11. We actually grow and eat okra.
12. “Fixinto” is one word.
13. There is no such thing as "lunch". There is only dinner and then There is supper.
14. Ice tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when we are born. We do like a little tea with our sugar!
15. Back-ards and for-ards means "I know everything about you."
16. Jeet? is actually a phrase meaning "is you ate yet?"
17. You don't have to wear a watch because it doesn't matter what time it is. You work until you’re done or it's too dark to see.
18. You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH um.
You know you're from Georgia if:
1. You measure distance in minutes.
2. You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
3. You use "fix" as a verb. Example: "I'm fixing to go to the store”.
4. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal.
5. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave Both unlocked.
6. You know what a "DAWG" is.
7. You carry jumper cables in your car...for your OWN car.
8. You only own four spices: salt, pepper, Tabasco and ketchup.
9. The local papers cover national and international news on one page but require 6 pages for local gossip and sports.
10. You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday. And it is in these parts.
11. You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit "a little warm".
12. You know all four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, still Summer And Christmas.
13. You know whether another Georgian is from Atlanta, north or South Georgia as soon as they open their mouth.
14. Going to Wal-mart is a favorite past time known as "goin' Wal-martin" or off to "Wally World".
15. You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good Chicken and dumpling weather.
16. A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola or pop...it's a Coke, regardless of brand or flavor. Example: "What kinda coke you want?"
We put peanuts in our “Coke”.
17. Fried catfish is the other white meat.
18. We don't need no stinking driver's ed....If our mama says we can drive, we can drive.
19. Your wife spends the day in a “Kiddie-pool”.
20. We say “Grace” at the table and we say “yes mam”. It’s about respect and up-bring’n.
21. We was raised on peach cobbler.
22. We do not eat canned biscuits.
Not EVERYONE can be a Georgian,
It’s an art form and a gift from God
