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Mamapolo2016 · F
When I first visited the southern US, the laid-back pace made me crazy. Cashiers "lazily" ringing up groceries and chatting with their customers, etc. Everybody seemed to move like they were swimming in molasses.
I had places to GO. What was wrong with those people? The turntable on the stereo was set to the wrong speed. "Hellooooooo....how can I...oh, MORNIN', Miz Caldwell....heeellllpppp yooooooooo?"
At some point I realized the places I had to go would still be there after the cashier and I finished swapping stories.
Along the Eastern US metro-corridor, slow means stupid. In the South, it means, we've got loads of time to enjoy THIS moment before we move on to the next.
I converted.
I had places to GO. What was wrong with those people? The turntable on the stereo was set to the wrong speed. "Hellooooooo....how can I...oh, MORNIN', Miz Caldwell....heeellllpppp yooooooooo?"
At some point I realized the places I had to go would still be there after the cashier and I finished swapping stories.
Along the Eastern US metro-corridor, slow means stupid. In the South, it means, we've got loads of time to enjoy THIS moment before we move on to the next.
I converted.
Stillwaiting · M
@Mamapolo2016 Moved up east after 40+ yrs in midwest .. impatience in urban areas and higher population states is out of control .. people nearly run you off the road just to take your place behind the closest of an unending string of vehicles ahead of you .. arrogance and rudeness run amuck .. can't wait to move out of here
Mamapolo2016 · F
@Stillwaiting I moved to a southwestern city that has that chilled-out, tomorrow-is-another-day philosophy - except on the roads and streets. The same folks who will stand patiently holding the door for you will run you DOWN if you get between them and the next green light.
Mamapolo2016 · F
@Stillwaiting I always want to ask those faster-than-a-speeding-bullet folks. "And when you get there, will it be a place you want to be?"
Stillwaiting · M
@Mamapolo2016 Sure, its become a bigger issue broadly .. but I see what would be beyond the extremes elsewhere on a daily basis here
Mamapolo2016 · F
@Stillwaiting There's a modern parable:
A fast-talking-driving-moving guy from New York vacations on a Caribbean Island where he charters a fishing boat. While he's fishing, the boat's captain is slouched in a beach lounge chair, hat pulled down over his face, dozing.
The New Yorker says, "Yknow, if you worked real hard, you could buy a second boat and hire somebody to run it for you - then you could make twice the money and buy another boat! Before you knew it, you'd have a FLEET of boats and make enough money to hire people to run ALL the boats, and you could go fishing all you wanted!"
The captain lifts his hat from his eyes and says, "Mister, that's what I do NOW."
A fast-talking-driving-moving guy from New York vacations on a Caribbean Island where he charters a fishing boat. While he's fishing, the boat's captain is slouched in a beach lounge chair, hat pulled down over his face, dozing.
The New Yorker says, "Yknow, if you worked real hard, you could buy a second boat and hire somebody to run it for you - then you could make twice the money and buy another boat! Before you knew it, you'd have a FLEET of boats and make enough money to hire people to run ALL the boats, and you could go fishing all you wanted!"
The captain lifts his hat from his eyes and says, "Mister, that's what I do NOW."