# How do I talk my s.o. into living in N.C. (and not Fla.)? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 5, 2001, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-talk-my-s-o-into-living-in-n-c-and-not-fla/48517 "2001-01-05T03:34:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-talk-my-s-o-into-living-in-n-c-and-not-fla/48517/21 "2001-01-09T12:03:30Z")
[screeching halt] > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FairyChatMom \* > **…The association had the power to put a lien on your house if you didn’t buy their damn paper bags and candles. Guess it was tough luck if you didn’t observe Christmas. Anyway, their last year there, they experienced an unfortunate ignition of several bags in the street…** ROTFLMAO! I just had this horrible image: Mom told me about how, when she was younger, the neighborhood kids would pull Halloween pranks involving paper bags full of, um, “canine excretia”, and burning them on the neighbors’ lawns. No one owned fire extinguishers, so they had to stomp out the fire. I can just picture a snotty board member tap-dancing on a flaming luminaria. [/screeching halt] ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-talk-my-s-o-into-living-in-n-c-and-not-fla/48517/22 "2001-01-09T15:19:55Z")
Go rent ‘Last of the Mohicans’ with Daniel Day whatshisname. Filmed in North Carolina. Breathtakingly beautiful! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-talk-my-s-o-into-living-in-n-c-and-not-fla/48517.md?page=1)