Confessions of a Northerner, Part 2

It's been an interesting life. (sigh...) Once you think you are finally used to everything that there is to be used to in the South, something new pops up. 

1. Area Codes

Ok, people, area codes are not an accessory on your phone number. They are an essential part of your phone number. Your number is incomplete without the section archaically labelled "area code." 

Here in Small Town, South, there is only one area code in a 30+ mile radius. In Big City, Northeast, there are at least five area codes in 30 mile radius. Area codes are as normal as a first name. It's a normal, natural part of the phone number. 

Do you know how many times I have entered a seven-digit phone number into my phone... only to delete it because no one mentions their area code? Every time! And, honestly, not absolutely everyone has the same area code around here. Some people, like Mr. Wonderful and I, recently moved to the area and have not yet converted to a local number. 

With cell phones these days, who needs a specific area code anyway?

2. Southern Living magazine

In the last two months, I have received six ads from Southern Living magazine, requesting me to subscribe. This one is quite simple: 

No.

I live in the South. It is absolutely nothing like the glamorized South people dream about.  The magazine portrays a south that I am certainly not living. So, no. 

3. Half-conversations

It is reasonable to have a conversation with someone and come back to it at a later time or date. That's totally normal. What's not normal is having a conversation and coming back by randomly blurting out statements that could relate to a hundred different things. 

"Purple."

"Five Dollars."

"Tuesday afternoon."

What does that mean??!?

Something to do with yesterday's conversation, if I ask several questions to figure out what the person was talking about. 

Oh boy....

I live in a constant state of confusion. :)