He was definitely someone with a chip on his shoulder. His son was actually really nice to me and respected my plants. I have been doing bonsai for about 5-6 years now and I move every 6-8 months to a new place and I have dealt with a lot of landscapers, some who didn't even speak english. He has been the first one to make such a big deal about this.
Since living here in Asheville I have been called a yankee and to leave the city at least 3 times. So I think its more to do with some of the people here. I have been eyeballing Nashville as I place to live but I hear it gets real hot over there.
Yankee is more often than not a term of endearment of sorts believe it or not in a common turn of phrase. As in if I met a cat from Dallas and said, “well, Tex over here...”
...if I didn’t like Tex I wouldn’t have ever been such a wine and cheeseball to say such curtseys or given any notice..
another example, one of the greatest persons I’ve known on the planet, I may call him a slack jawed lolligaggin yankee shitass.
yankee is an old term, it’s not an insult anymore, just where you’re from in my understanding
I was born above the Mason-Dixon Line, so technically I guess I’m a yankee but I think the word is even older than that...macaroni
If someone calls me a yankee, I say amen up high, ya dime store yokel
Nobody gives a fuck where you’re from, yankee is not an insult, it’s what you are, where you’re from. Asheville is...not really a redneck place...Nashville....get some yankee. Try Austin perhaps.
Sometimes I call another friend Jersey, you should hear the way he says, water. Go Mets!
