# Marching through Georgia; or, My Bizarre Gas Station Experience. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 16, 2002, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marching-through-georgia-or-my-bizarre-gas-station-experience/143102 "2002-12-16T16:39:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marching-through-georgia-or-my-bizarre-gas-station-experience/143102/21 "2002-12-17T03:48:51Z")
> [@](#): > > **Eats\_Crayons** : He reminds me of the Abominable Snowman on Bugs Bunny – “My very own bunny rabit. I’ll love him and squeeze him and call him George.” That’s funny, he reminds _me_ of Lenny from Steinbeck’s _Of Mice and Men_. : points and laughs: 😉 **Bosda** , I agree with **TPWombat** – he _had_ to have seen your out-of-state plates and was funnin’ ya. Right…? ---
**Author:** ![Skid\_Row](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@Skid\_Row](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skid_Row)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marching-through-georgia-or-my-bizarre-gas-station-experience/143102/22 "2002-12-17T10:22:16Z")
I said MOST! (are you originally from Georgia? SHEESH!) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marching-through-georgia-or-my-bizarre-gas-station-experience/143102/23 "2002-12-17T12:46:46Z")
**TPWombat** —not much in the way of a “back room” at _this_ joint. And, as my LP is on the _back_ of my car, I don’t see how it could have been spotted. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![RalfCoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@RalfCoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RalfCoder)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marching-through-georgia-or-my-bizarre-gas-station-experience/143102/24 "2002-12-17T13:41:10Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor And, as my LP is on the back of my car, I don’t see how it could have been spotted._ Accent? Clothes? Hairstyle? The car you drove? Any of these could have marked you as “from somewhere else”. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marching-through-georgia-or-my-bizarre-gas-station-experience/143102/25 "2002-12-17T14:00:29Z")
Anybody else reading this suddenly hear _Dueling Banjos_ in their head? ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marching-through-georgia-or-my-bizarre-gas-station-experience/143102/26 "2002-12-17T19:17:09Z")
**Thank you Bosda !!!** Today I am proud to say: I’m from Mississippi, not Georgia 😃 j/k folks let me enjoy it until Trent goes to talkin’ again ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marching-through-georgia-or-my-bizarre-gas-station-experience/143102/27 "2002-12-18T06:08:53Z")
I don’t want to know what _road_ he was on, but info on the chemicals he was ingesting might be interesting, also where he got them, and how much he paid. Otherwise I’m going with the possibility that he was just /slow/ or mebbie just screwing with you. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marching-through-georgia-or-my-bizarre-gas-station-experience/143102/28 "2002-12-18T07:38:34Z")
> [@](#): > > Maybe he was just just messing with you for grins? His buddies listening in the back room holding their sides and stuffing socks in their mouths? > Hey, that was a good one!!! My turn next!!" I confess that many Southerners do like to make fun of the stereotypes of Southerners. I suspect that your leg was being pulled. ---
**Author:** ![Woeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Woeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Woeg)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marching-through-georgia-or-my-bizarre-gas-station-experience/143102/29 "2002-12-18T13:50:19Z")
As a resident of Hawkinsville, GA, a town 40 minutes south of Macon, I apologize profusely for the actions of my Southern brethren… …cause, ya know, we’re all related here. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marching-through-georgia-or-my-bizarre-gas-station-experience/143102/30 "2002-12-18T15:22:01Z")
I moved to a small tourist town in a southern state after graduating from college (I’m a yankee by birth) I used to sit on the porch of my house wearing overalls and playing my guitar. Tourists would actually stop and take my picture becuase I was so rural and authentic. I played jokes like that on them. ---
**Author:** ![sulamith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@sulamith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sulamith)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marching-through-georgia-or-my-bizarre-gas-station-experience/143102/31 "2002-12-18T17:45:21Z")
Woeg and Skid Row, here’s another Georgian chiming in to apologize for the South Georgia idiots. I was raised in Vienna, Ga, right on I-75 south of Macon(Woeg, you know where that shithole is, don’t ya?), and let me just say that I couldn’t get out of that place fast enough. I left at age 19 because even then I had enough smarts to know that I didn’t want to wind up in a double-wide in the middle of a cotton field. Most of the folks in Dooly Co, Ga do nothing but perpetuate every bad stereotype you ever heard about rednecks, retards, and welfare recipients. The only place worse than Vienna was Unadilla, also right on I-75. You Florida-bound travellers need to just lock your doors and pray you don’t have to stop in either of those places. As a matter-of-fact I wouldn’t be at all surprised if this incident took place in one of these two towns. The twin armpits of the state, for sure. It’s frightening, I tell ya! ---
**Author:** ![Pablito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@Pablito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pablito)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marching-through-georgia-or-my-bizarre-gas-station-experience/143102/32 "2002-12-18T18:03:22Z")
As a resident of South Carolina, one of the phrases I used to hear quite often was “thank goodness for Mississippi!” referencing some poll or statistic on education in which South Carolina placed 49th. After reading this OP, I’m thinking, “thank goodness for Georgia.” We’ve got plenty of individuals with whom your gas station friends would feel right at home. Cock fight, anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marching-through-georgia-or-my-bizarre-gas-station-experience/143102/33 "2002-12-18T18:42:33Z")
It’s nah wondah 'e didn’t wahnt yo _yankee_ money, vahr’mint. Its got dem purdee designs on ‘em, but t’ain’t nuttin but northerners and carpetbeggahs on ‘em. Well lookee he’ah! Looks like we got usselves anutta one of them yankees! Walkin’ oh so proud, carr’in airs about yahs, and oh! Looks like you’ve been ah’ bathing lately. Weel _faaaaaa-nceeeeeee_! :draws shotgun, aims: Get away from mah daughtah! ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marching-through-georgia-or-my-bizarre-gas-station-experience/143102/34 "2006-02-08T21:08:34Z")
> [@Eats\_Crayons](#): > > UmIf you gave him the bill, Queen-side up so it was Number 20, then Queen… he might think that was wrong. How did he deal with the new bill? And I can believe it. One time during a campaign, the office called us to say a lady had called them in a fury because our campaign brochures were unilingual. I said, “Tell her to turn it over.” ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marching-through-georgia-or-my-bizarre-gas-station-experience/143102/35 "2006-02-08T21:20:58Z")
Wow. It’s not very often a veteran like you does something like this, dude. Look at the posting dates. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marching-through-georgia-or-my-bizarre-gas-station-experience/143102/36 "2006-02-08T21:39:14Z")
Is it just me, or are zombies popping up everywhere lately? Somebody call Romero! ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marching-through-georgia-or-my-bizarre-gas-station-experience/143102/37 "2006-02-08T21:46:20Z")
_Cocks shotgun and aims for the head_ ---
**Author:** ![Gamaliel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b487fb/32.png) [@Gamaliel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gamaliel)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marching-through-georgia-or-my-bizarre-gas-station-experience/143102/38 "2006-02-08T22:21:33Z")
Great, I have to drive this very stretch of road this weekend. But I’ll have a genuine north Florida redneck with me in case I have to interact with the natives. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marching-through-georgia-or-my-bizarre-gas-station-experience/143102/39 "2006-02-08T22:37:10Z")
'Tis a zombie thread. Die, faster zombiecat, die, die! ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marching-through-georgia-or-my-bizarre-gas-station-experience/143102/40 "2006-02-08T22:38:15Z")
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