[TAG] [Off-topic] Cultural notes

[Ben Okopnik]

>From a conversation I had yesterday with a man in his 80s that I met on
the street; all this in a slow, unhurried Southern accent.

  I used to work f' the Forestry Service, y'know. A man there - he must
  be dead b'now - tole me once: "Never hire a man t'do a job o'work for
  you who eats salt herrin' for breakfast, rolls his own cig'rettes, er
  wears a straw hat. Reason bein', he's either chasin' his hat down th'
  road, rollin' a cig'rette, er lookin' fer a drink o'water!"

Mark Twain would have felt right at home. :)


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