Friday, February 22, 2008

How to get a hillbilly nickname.


1. Give birth to a son.
2. Give birth to a daughter.
3. Daughter, in her quest to say "brother" begins to call said son "Bubba".
4. Start referring to son as Bubba to the dismay of your family members. (only on your side of the family, since your own husband was born a redneck)
5. Just to drive your own mother crazy, start referring to said daughter as "Sissy".
6. Continue this for years on end. Bubba. Sissy. Bubba. Sissy. Bubba. Sissy.
7. Note that this is confusing out in public when you move to said husband's redneck town and everyone else is referring to their children as Bubba and Sissy.
8. Find joy in your ability to blend into this small town thanks to the innocent speech of your beloved daughter.
9. Shake your head in dismay that you are now a small-town girl yourself.

Top ten reasons you know you are now a small- town girl

10. You are comfortable calling your children Bubba and Sissy in public.
9. You know more about people you don't even know than you did about the people you did know growing up.
8. You are a flying goose. (Go geese, go!)
7. Your son wears camouflage.
6. People just walk into your house unannounced since you never lock your doors.
5. If you lose your keys, you can usually run out to your car and find them in your ignition.
4. If they're not in the ignition, they're most likely sitting right there in your purse which you left on the passenger seat with the window rolled down.
3. Your children repeatedly use the word "crick" even though you have sing-songingly announced to them "it's a creek you freak!" (or worse yet, they say "ain't" - yikes!!)
2. You get frustrated when you have to go "all the way across town" for something which could mean up to a 6 minute drive!!
1. And the number one reason you know you are now a small town girl is because you have made more friends in 6 years than you ever made in your entire life.

Who cares if your kids have hillbilly nicknames!

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