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"Jim Fisher" wrote in message
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Eagle Aviation ...and have cute chicks at the counter.


Yes; I forgot about that. Jeesh!! And she had the cutest southern accent.


Those Southern accents kill me every time, but only from the chickies!

I do remember an incident once when a fellow engineer and I were sent to an
off-site location in Denton, TX to work at another company's site. He was
from Detroit and could imitate any accent in the book, and he was good at
it! When we got there we got the customary hotel stay until we could find a
place to stay for 9 months (one gestation period).

About a month later, we found some apartments at the same place. We both
had to go to the Denton City utilities to get our electricity turned on.
When we got there, we found a room full of people waiting around to be
serviced. We noticed that we had to take a number, so we took one number,
thinking that they could help us both at the same time. There were two
great looking chickies up there calling out numbers and helping people. The
place was busier than hell.

Anyway, our number was called and we both sprang to the counter. One of
them said "Can we help yall?" in a wonderful Texas drawl. The following
conversation ensued, all using that exact wonderful Texas drawl:

Ed: "You shore can, are you talking to him or are you talking to me?"
Her: "I'm talking to both of yall."
Ed: "You can't be talking to both of us."
Her: "Why's that?"
Ed: "Because everyone knows 'yalls' singular."
Her: "Yalls singular?"
Ed: "Yes, maam, 'yalls' singular, 'all yalls' plural."

You had to have been there. Knowing that Ed was a honky from Detroit,
Michigan didn't help me at all. I had to do the best I could from laughing,
knowing that a honk from Detroit was supposedly teaching two Texas women how
to speak their own language!

Simon