(This stuff has all happened to me in the last week or so. All I can say is that I love this town!)
You know you’re in Mississippi when…
1. After coming out of one department store you resolve to cross the parking lot to buy lunch at the nearby restaurant and your hostess fishes out her keys to drive there.
2. You receive a wrong number call on your cell phone asking for Jennie. ‘There’s no Jenny here’, you reply. “Oh… Okay… Hey… um… can I ask you somethin?” comes the response. ‘Well erm, if you must’, you answer. “Where are y’all from?” ’Excuse me?’ “Where are y’all from?” ‘I come from Scotland’. “Scotland?… Hey!… I have a lot of Scottish blood in me…” ‘Alright then… well… eh… goodbye’.
3. Floor is pronounced ‘flohw’, door is ‘dohw’, and poor is ‘pohw’ and baptist is ‘babdist’
4. Asked by the man working on your new home about the placement of fire alarms around the house you take a full thirty seconds to realise he is not asking you where you want to keep your ‘fire arms around the house’.
5. Having decided to walk from the church to the bank, which is only around the corner, you get a call asking if everything is okay. You were spotted walking and someone was worried.
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August 25, 2008 at 22:21
Laura
You will never walk anywhere again. Ever.
August 26, 2008 at 00:34
bruce
thanks for the great laugh!!
August 26, 2008 at 13:27
The Browns
The South is awesome!
September 3, 2008 at 21:11
Tim Horn
David,
Welcome to Mississippi and Covenant Presbytery. I hope you and your family are adjusting well. We arrived in Clarksdale, MS from Cheltenham about a week or so before you. I’ll probably see you at presbytery in October. We’ve been doing the same comparison except in reverse…”You know you are not in England anymore when…” Last week, I was at the Doctor’s office (surgery) and I sat down to fill out some forms. There were a few other people sitting in the waitng room. A woman turned to her husband and broke the silence by asking, “When you roast a hog with the head on it, how long does it take?!”
September 21, 2008 at 11:08
Sebastian Heck
David, so good to hear y’all have landed in the strange land! I hear Jon and the fam had a good time with you at the installation. Very funny post. I have had some of the same cultural experiences my first time around in MS. Speaking of which, I will be on the road in MS (among other places) in October visiting churches, meeting with pastors, elders, sessions, committees, etc. to talk about Reformation2Germany, our church planting effort. I was wondering if we couldn’t get together, even if only informally. Perhaps the Lord has put you in a strategic place in the U.S. to help those “stay at home” Europeans in their endeavor to plant solid churches…?
Besides, I’d simply enjoy hanging out with you!