Some old, some new............ Things to learn about living in the South........... Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air -- a behavior acquired from armadillos. There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live in the South. There are 10,000 catalogued species of spiders. All 10,000 are found in the South, plus a couple no one's seen before. Business casual is jeans and a "clean" tee shirt. Squirrels will eat anything and there's no such thing as a squirrel-proof bird feeder. It's against the law to eat "Cream of Wheat" -- a cheap substitute for grits. Unknown critters love to dig holes under tomato plants. Raccoons will test your crop of melons and let you know when they are ripe. If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites. Six out of 13 southern states list the mosquito as the state bird. A tractor is NOT an all-terrain vehicle. They do get stuck. Onced and Twiced are words. It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy. Fire ants consider your flesh as a picnic. People actually grow and eat okra. Fixinto is one word. ("I'm fixinto go to the store.") There ain't no such thing as "lunch". There's only dinner and then there's supper. Iced sweet tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you're 2. Backwards and forwards means I know everything about you. Jeet? is actually a phrase meaning "Did you eat?" 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. You hit a deer late one night and the first thing you do after stopping your truck is count the number of points on the deer's antlers. More about Southern People........ You know you're from the South if.......... 1. You measure distance in minutes. 2. You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day. 3. Mammundem refers to your family -- "Mama and them" 4. You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it, no matter what time of the year -- and you think nothing of it. 5. You use "stove" as an adjective. Example: After my wreck, I was stove up. 6. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal. 7. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked. 8. You carry jumper cables in your car... for you OWN car. 9. You only own four spices: salt, pepper, Tabasco and ketchup. 10. The local papers cover national and international news on one page but requires 6 pages for local gossip and sports. 11. You think that the first day of deer season is a perfectly legitimate excuse for your son to miss school. 12. You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit "a little warm." 13. You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas. 14. You know whether another Southern is from east, west, or middle South as soon as he opens his mouth. 15. Going to Wal-mart is a favorite past time known as "goin wal-martin" or off to "Wally World." 16. You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good pinto-bean weather. 17. A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola, or pop...it's a Coke, regardless of brand or flavor, Example: "What kinna coke you want?" 18. Fried Catfish is the other white meat.