I never really consider myself a yankee. To southerners, I definitely am. But I associate “Yankee” to New York because of their baseball team, and we’re deep in Red Sox country up here, where Yankee is practically a swear word. So, yankee is just not a word I’d use to describe myself. I’m more prone to say “New Englander.”<\/p>\n
Anyway, folks in the south most definitely consider us to be Yankees up here in Massachusetts. While in Virginia with Randy’s family this past holiday weekend, we were in a Home Depot where Randy was checking out doors (for a new backdoor). They were talking about installation and material cost and when Randy told the guy we were from Massachusetts and would likely buy the door there, the sales guy said the door would be the same price up there, but then you’d have to pay all those taxes since we’re from “Taxachusetts.” Randy agreed with the guy then changed subjects. Meanwhile, I started stewing and asked what the state sales tax was in VA.<\/p>\n
The sales guy said it was 5%…which, incidentally, is the same as Massachusetts.<\/p>\n
Damn southerners.<\/p>\n
Otherwise, I had a great time. Randy’s family is the sweetest with Charlene, Roger Ray, Enid, Ennis, and Grannie treating me so well, fattening me up with fried chicken, biscuits, macaroni and cheese, and chicken n’ dumplings (which to me just seems like the chicken and biscuits all cooked into a soup-like mess of yumminess).<\/p>\n
But what would I know…I’m just a damn yankee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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