Great thread.....I've gone through each post this evening as I needed
some light hearted humor tonight.

OK.....I was born & raised in the San Fernando Valley...lived there until 30+ then still lived in So California (Los Angeles County) until I was 53 years old.
I was a valley girl before anyone knew what a valley girl was.....& I had no idea where they came up with the "like" stupid way of talking because no one I ever knew talked that way.

However, growing up, I spent my summers in Topeka Kansas with my mother & grandparents. My Gramps would take me fishing on the weekends.....we would go fishing on Mill Crick......so all my life, I called every little stream of water a "crick". Everyone made fun of my word "crick" saying thats what you get in your neck, a creek is what you fish in but that's the say all the Kansas people I was around said it....so that's what I learned.

California girls on the beach are always pictured having long straight blond hair....me, I had curly, frizzy auborn hair which was a miserable thing when I went to the beach & everyone else had their beautiful straight hair without a hair out of place while mine was sticking out all over the place unless I tied it down.

I hated swimming in the ocean even though I enjoyed walking on the beach.....the cold yucky stinky water was definitely NOT inviting & the horrible little jelly fish that came into the Santa Barbara bay the one time I decided to walk out into the water left me in pain. Little creeps looked like bubbles on top of the water....had no idea they were jelly fish.

I am a female.......my goal in life was NEVER TO GET MARRIED & HAVE KIDS (or children either) like every other female I knew. I wanted a career because I didn't want to be anything like my parents. That's not exactly how life went, but I ended up getting married, having a daughter & HAVING A CAREER as a firmware design engineer for 15 years before the aerospace industry in California died.

Sporty cars & SUV's were big in California.....& I had both. Loved driving my toyota supra at 100 + mph where is was safe in the back country desert roads.

California was one of the few states where you could go to the beach in the morning & snow ski in the afternoon....got a chance to enjoy that several times.

Movie stars were not common to see every where you went.....the only one I ran into was Keenan Wynn at the post office when he opened the door of his limo into the side of my little old VW. The girl I went to junior college with & practiced for many performances with, was the daughter of a famous California News reporter who did a lot of war reporting.....I was so surprised when I went to her house to practice & met her dad.

So I moved from California to KY 5 years ago (wow, time flys) & now I am trying to adapt to the more southern way of doing things:

Pot lucks.....sometimes several times in one day
Sweetea.....some I like...most I don't
Fried Okra....not bad if you don't eat too much at a time.
Baked Oysters.....again, not bad but a little goes a long way especially when you are living alone & you are the only one eating them.
Ah yes.....my truck.....you betcha....prefer it to all the sporty cars I have ever had. I get teased about my truck being too big for me to drive.....but I haul it around like I've been driving it all my life & even learned the hauling & backing up thing with my horse trailer.

Can't live in KY without having horses.....yes you can......but I can't...unfortunately, I'm still waiting to get my horse here from California.....I left her there 5 years ago because she was at training age & had strangles, so I couldn't clear her to go cross country anyway for almost a year after I moved.....then I ran out of money. Everyone has more horses than they can ride here....so I am never without a horse to ride when I want to.

I fix my own lawn tractor.....definitely a shock to the guys at the parts places. After leaving my husband, I now have to fix & do everything myself. I always knew how to do everything, but didn't because he wouldn't if I did. Some things I don't have the physical strength to do...but noticed that it took 3 guys to remove the pipe that I couldn't remove either

I'm sure there are more things that I have missed....but enough for this novel this time.