I was talking to this lady on the phone the other day about a doctor's appointment that I had set up for her. Easy, right? Just give them a call, tell them the date and time of the appointment and then give them the doctor's phone number in case they need to call to check on location/change the appointment.
So after I had done all of that, speaking what I thought was slowly and clearly, the old lady had the nerve to say this, "I'm sorry, honey, but I can tell you're not from Texas. I didn't understand a word you just said."
Whoa, hold the phone there, Grannie. YOU can't understand ME? This coming from someone who probably uses terms like, "I ain't never done did that" or "I'd been knowin' him for 10 years"??
There is something fundamentally wrong if you can't understand someone who DOESN'T speak Texan. It is indicative of three things: you really need to get the hell out of this state to experience the world around you, you need to learn proper grammar and pronuncation, AND you need to clean your ears out as soon as possible.
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That's too funny! "I'm sorry honey, but I can tell you're not from Texas. I didn't understand a word you just said." I thought Jeff Foxworthy's "Redneck Words" was just a gag, until I was in Oklahoma once and heard somebody use the word "ustacould".
I KNOW! I used to think that it was real, but isolated. Now, I know better. EVERYONE here talks like that.
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