Without the Southern States, the rest of us would miss...

[Stonepounder]

116. I wasn't the one who brought up 'strange fruit'

I was responding to the 'strange fruit' post. And, if you had bothered to read the rest of my post you would have seen that I said that the vast majority of southeners are warm, friendly and caring.

A couple of years back, in the dead of winter, a woman lost control of her car and ended up in a creek. Three young men, who looked like they could have stepped out of a Deliverance poster saw the accident. Two of them jumped into the creek and held the woman's head out of the water (she was trapped in her car), while the other ran to get help. The woman was rescued and the two men who helped her were treated for hypothermia. When interviewed for TV they couldn't understand what the fuss was about. Their attitude was they just did what anyone would do.

Do we seem to have more than our share of wing-nuts? Yeah, probably. But here I know more of my neighbors that I ever did in California. And when I was laid up from gall bladder surgery, the guy from three doors up (who, by the way can't really walk, he gets about on one of those motorized chairs) came down on his riding mower and cut my grass for me when he saw my wife our cutting it. Call it sexist if you want, but he didn't think it was proper for a lady to have to cut the grass.