I'm glad to see a community like this!
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Porthos will accept cheese for his services.
OMG I love greyhounds 🖤 especially silly ones who think they're deerz
Oh doctor, doctor! Is this love I'm feeling?
If I were a man I'd absolutely love to grow facial hair.
Fake friendliness exists everywhere in the US. It's just our social lubricant. The problem is that Southern fake friendliness is sort of oppressive, they can be kind of pushy. As in you're the rude one if you're not interested in their hospitality or friendliness. As a New Jerseyan, I'd much rather be able to say a polite "no thanks" and have that be respected, which is what you get in the Northeast and in SoCal.
I prefer to be more direct. Not necessarily cold, just forthright. In the South there are all these layers of manners and expectations that can be hard for a Northerner to navigate. I think they often genuinely mean to be nice, but they don't realize how pushy they are.
BTW I don't have any real experience with Midwesterners but from what I understand, they can be similar to Southerners in this regard.
I prefer the Northeastern way to the Southern way, and I think I'd way prefer the German way to the Southern way.
Never considered grated apricot... that sounds awesome!
I thought everyone could?
Haha me too! When I was a kid my podiatrist told me it would be good physical therapy for the growing pains I had along with flat feet. Not sure if it worked but it definitely kept me entertained!
I'm the opposite. Petite 5'0" lady who sounds like an entire community of elephants when I walk.
Nope! I've never read/seen Harry Potter (I, too, live under a rock). Beatrix Potter is the English author from the late 1800s who wrote The Tale of Peter Rabbit and The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, among others. When I was a kid I had a set of her books, and her illustrations (which she herself painted in watercolors) had the whimsical quality that your cross-stitch has. 🦊🧡
Here's hoping your day improves!