Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 12:04:56 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
From: lingam32443
Subject: Hometown Boy and Hometown Bores . .
In yesterday’s Chatlist, deloispopp (what a peculiar name for a native!) goes on to say that she/he was born in Chatham County and raised in Pittsboro and says “Believe me we do not want to claim Starkweather as one of our home town boys. If he were, it would be quite an embarrassing reality.”
Please dear deloispopp, give us a rundown of your family history, that makes you Chatham County Royalty.
Did it ever occur to you, dekoispopp that the natives were then, and sometimes now are still embarrassing? I arrived about the same time as Mr. Starkweather and believe me, many you native folks were just about as nasty, ignorant and prejudiced as you could possibly be(and still are)-
Here are some classics I remember:
A “hometown” realtor to me: “Sure, we got plenty of N—— here, but they don’t bother nobody”
A “hometown” insurance salesman: Drove by my home and decided he didn’t like the looks of my place and wouldn’t discuss insuring me.
A “hometown” home owner wouldn’t sell to me “because he had called the police station in the town I was temporally residing, ‘had never heard of me.”
A “hometown” Pittsboro town board member, at an outdoor market, blurted out to me “You damned Yankees come down here and think you own the place!” (I was born in North Carolina)
A “hometown” Pittsboro hardware store owner, even tho I had spent hundreds of cash dollars there over a period of three years, wouldn’t take a personal check- “Are you local?”
The reality of your embarrassment, dear deloispopp, is that you seem likely to be related to the “hometown” cranks mentioned above. The cranks that don’t want change, not capable of making change and have never really changed in their entire life. I think it is sometimes referred to as ‘hick in the mud.’
Remember, native deloispopp, we ‘non-natives’ out here in Chatlist Land are waiting to hear your response as to why you are really better than the rest of us ‘outsiders!”
L. Ingam