Pass the grits, honey
I love Garrison Keillor. Not only does he do Prairy Home Companion each week, but also writes a regular column for Salon.com. (I listened to him for years before I actually saw a picture of him and I always imagined he looked like my Dad).
Today he wrote about how great it feels to be called “sunshine” or “darlin” by people from the South. He goes on to talk about how reserved we are in the North -”burdened by the need to be cool” (that phrase alone is worth a thousand posts -just beautiful). And then he said, “If we can’t talk to strangers, if there is no public life in America, then it’s no wonder politics is so out of whack.”
This is exactly what I was trying to get at in my post yesterday. That we need to put aside all our fear about offending each other and just get busy with the (more meaningful) interacting.
(and this goes for brands too)
October 28th, 2006 at 11:43 am
Another is ma’am and sir, especially ma’am. If you’ve ever spent a day in the South, you understand that both are considered common courtesy to Southerners. To any woman that lives outside the South, calling them ma’am secretly means ‘My God you old hag!’.
Southern men always find this out the hard way.
BTW love the blog name!