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07 September 2011

Kiss My Grits

Why does everything sound sweeter, nicer or funnier with a authentic southern accent?  While dining out the other day I was subjected to the typical toddler tirade at a local restaurant.  This blonde, southern-belle could not have been more than 4 or 5 years old and liked to share her opinion, wanted or not, on every topic under the sun at a level that everyone in the place could hear.  She didn't like what her mother ordered for her and made sure the rest of the the restaurant heard her repeated complaints about the cuisine and at that special pitch that only screaming toddlers seem to be able to reach all the while the stone-deaf mother ignored her insistent child's pleas and continued on with her adult "hushed" conversation.

Then the little girl looks at the mother's companion and inquires "Why did he call the cops on you?"

From the mouths of babes...