Southern Hospitality
Allow me to take a moment to preach. At the visitors cent(r)er in Huntsville, there was the sweetest, nicest, Lady of the South I’d ever met. That list includes Rosalynn Carter*, too, by the way. I mention this only because I opened the Alabama segment with my fear of the Hillbilly Redneck. The South really does get a bad name, and from what I have experienced, it certainly doesn’t deserve it. These are genuine people; polite, talkative (see Rosalynn Carter note), interested, interesting, and sincerely concerned about making you comfortable.
Remember the recent** movie, “The Blindside”, starring poor Sandra Bullock***? Well, being here, you can understand how a person comes to befriend and then take in a complete stranger. It’s nice. I wish more things were like the South.
We now resume our regularly scheduled blogs.
*Rob and I did meet Rosalynn Carter at her husband’s library (he’s former President Jimmy Carter for those of you who don’t know) on a different journey. Very nice. Sweet. Talkative. We actually had to end the conversation with her because she wouldn’t shut-up. Shhhh, Mrs. Carter. Shhhhh. I think I see some humanity that needs a habitat over there.
**The Blindside was recent at the time of posting. I am choosing to believe this blog will live on in eternity.
***See above, Sandra Bullock was going through a nasty divorce at the time of posting. By the time your generation is reading this, I’m sure it all works out. And that we are all living in outer space.
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