You simply don't understand our Southern charm. <3
Actually, you've almost got it. To be directly rude to someone is unthinkable; to insinuate and to make everything very clear underneath a veneer of civility is what you do. You know, and they know, and everyone else knows, but nobody is actually going to say anything directly about it because that would make a scene, be inexpressibly rude, totally burn bridges, and destroy the veneer of civility that makes coexistence and shreds of cooperation possible. This is politeness. My jaw drops in sheer horror and flabbergasted shock when people up here do things like fight in public or in front of company. I just. I. No.
(Anyway, Yankees talk funny, and they don't have a plural form of the word 'you' either.)
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Date: 2008-09-04 05:22 am (UTC)Actually, you've almost got it. To be directly rude to someone is unthinkable; to insinuate and to make everything very clear underneath a veneer of civility is what you do. You know, and they know, and everyone else knows, but nobody is actually going to say anything directly about it because that would make a scene, be inexpressibly rude, totally burn bridges, and destroy the veneer of civility that makes coexistence and shreds of cooperation possible. This is politeness. My jaw drops in sheer horror and flabbergasted shock when people up here do things like fight in public or in front of company. I just. I. No.
(Anyway, Yankees talk funny, and they don't have a plural form of the word 'you' either.)