Make sure you get over to the Huntsville Space Center and take a sidetrip over to Redstone Arsenal.
Be sure to write Krogers and let them know.
That would be a nice letter for his personnel file.
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I’m in East Texas (edge of the South) but I telecommute with teams in NYC, New Jersey, and Chicago and there really is a big cultural gap. We are obsessed with being polite, they are obsessed with being politically correct (to the point of rudeness*). I get comments from project managers and engineers in cross functional teams all the time asking to work with me because I’m easy to work with while other team members are rude and in a hurry all the time. I had a comment last week asking if there were more of us from Texas they could work with instead of the New Jersey corporate office. It is just how we are raised.
*I have a big Christmas story around this I have to share one day about the ultra-lib obsessed over not offending anyone at Christmas that he was demanding we didn’t get our boss a gift.. crazy stuff.
Everyome could be as nice as us...
The secret: “An armed society is a polite society”.
Sweetheart (if you do not mind my calling you that), THIS is the way of Southern people!!
I grew up in VA. Very hospitable and congenial.
Moved to Miami, FL. NOT so.
Relocated to AL. WOW.
I was accustomed to “bumping into” someone in the grocery and saying excuse me - my fault or not. But here in AL, the OTHER person said it FIRST!!
The Kroger is:
300 Hughes Rd., Madison AL 35758
I cant remember the managers name, I was just to busy processing what had happened?
Does anybody know the managers name at this Kroger’s?
I cant find this on-line.
A big, gregarious guy, with no hair.
They have these huge pork loins on sale for like $9 a piece this week.
Welcome to what America used to be. If you’re up for a drive, come on up I-65 and visit us in TN.
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Yeah, but if want to know where you really stand with people, you’ve got to come up to the cranky Northeast. The range is from the sincerely rude in NY and NJ to the sincerely nice in NH, but it’s not all wrapped up in a cloying facade.
Pay it forward. A bit ago I was headed out to work and an out of state car had slid off the road and was stuck in the snow. I stopped, got my tow strap, and pulled them back onto the highway. The guy started digging in his wallet and I told him that wasn’t necessary. He seemed surprised. I told him to simply pay it forward.
A little bit ago my wife was in a store getting some diapers, wipes, etc. for the grandkids, about $30 worth. Her debit card keeps getting rejected (turns out my direct deposit paycheck hadn’t been direct deposited, was nowhere to be found-—oops) and she is getting very flustrated. A woman back in line steps up and paid for her stuff. My wife asked her for contact info to pay it back. The woman just smiled and told her “Pay it forward”.
Actually, it is a characteristic of pro-family areas. My mom and I talk about this a lot.
I know a lot may disagree, but the NYC area is loaded with great folks. I won’t say polite, but they can be so helpful, and tend to jump in and help older folks. We have come to the conclusion that you see helpful strangers in areas that cherish large family.
SFran is the exact opposite. It is one of the rudest areas in the US.
People are nice down south because they are ignorant, and believe fictional accounts of the Meaning of Life, like the Bible.
You need to discount this trivial experience you had and embrace the lib model of bitter, racist, hateful idiots that is most certainly a more accurate description.
Welcome to Red State America.
I lived in Lower Alabama for 7 years; most polite people on earth.
I lived in Lower Alabama for 7 years; most polite people on earth.
Because they know God, or have been raised by someone who knows God, or has a role model who knows God.
Here is a funny story for you. Our corporate office used to be in Little Rock and we had regional offices all over the country. We had an all-team meeting in Little Rock and went to dinner with people from all over the country. When dessert time came, the Texas and Arkansas team ordered three desserts and a bunch of forks and we started passing them around so we could try everything, like a big family. The looks on the Phoenix and Chicago team’s faces was priceless. It was like they were watching a zoo exhibit.
Thanks for a positive story! I love the south and would never move north.
I moved to central KY and a small farm in 2011 after living in the Seattle burbs for 45 years. And the quality of the people here is a major factor. Even my sister in law from Chicago visited the Lexington KY area a couple months ago and was seriously taken aback by how nice people are here. And in her words, “It’s sincere.” And she said it like someone might bite into a gold coin and excitedly and stunned say, “it’s real”.
We dearly love it here.
welcome to the south, where all the women are ladies and all the men are gentlemen. it is an entirely different way of life here. but don’t let the good manners fool you into the common notion that we are all a bunch of kind hearted rednecks. and don’t buy into the idea that we are also a bunch of rubes. we, for the most part, treat people the way we want to be treated. There must be something about our way of life here in the south because when outsiders come here, we can’t seem to get them to go home.
Just don’t try to change us. we like living this way.