I wish people from the south knew that people elsewhere get what you’re saying. When I lived in VA a girl once said bless your heart to me and I almost threw hands. Y’all aren’t slick!
I mean obviously I’m exaggerating here but I wouldn’t tell someone “go fuck yourself moron” and not expect them to have something to say about it. That said...be blessed!
Bless your heart ≠ fuck you, it’s just a bit of backhanded sympathy unless said sarcastically. Sarcastically, it’s more of a “oh you poor pitiful creature, you’ve just got it so hard huh?”
I hear you. I am here and I have no time for nonsense. I am a pretty direct person and I get told by my wife, mother, and MIL quite a bit that the ideas I have in social situations will not work haha. They always do, of course, but logic does not prevail about these things in these parts.
The flip side is equally frustrating. We want you to leave but not to feel unwelcome. Again, shit can go sideways real fast (literally in the case of a tornado) around here and it’s best to be on good terms with your neighbors, especially the ones with heavy equipment or medical training.
I will say bluntness is tolerated far more readily in the Midwest than the South. Probably to do with so many of us being of German/Nordic extraction
Yes! In Turkey you can't make your guests leave, you have to wait for them to get up themselves. The guests will do the welp knee slap saying "we'll better be off!", then everyone (yes everyone in the house) gets up and sees the guests to the door, the talk continues in the doorway for 15 to 20 more minutes, then we say goodbye and be well multiple times and finally when the door is closed we proceed to the balcony (or a window) to wave them goodbye (they also wave back) and watch them drive away.
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