When you arrive in the deep south from ANYWHERE other than the deep south, that is the first response you get after saying something. Right away they know that you will understand only about 5 percent of what any local says because they use way different pronunciation that has no sensible rule. For example, a writing instrument may be a PEN but is pronounced PIN. A clevis may be a PIN but is pronounced PEN. You will look very stupid trying to figure out what some of these folks are saying. As far as driving is concerned, the horn is like turn signals in that turn blinkers that were on when the car was purchased are about the only thing you see and it rarely ever indicates any intention of a turn and is never relied upon as to direction. The horn is rarely used for anything so when a loud one sounds, folks generaly wake up and look around to locate the source of the strange sound. That is usually three seconds after contact. "Around here" is anywhere inside a line south of the Mason-Dixon on the north,anywhere east of Kansas, Okiehoma and East Texas to the Atlantic and south to the Gulf. You from anywhere outside that "you ain't from around here, are ya, boy?"
