LilMsLadyPoet12 Dec 2005

Like This conversation that really took place:
(Southerner):"I was carrying my friend to the store and as soon as we started walking across the parking lot the bottom fell out."
Me:Why did you carry your friend to the store?
"Because he don't have no way to get there."
But why did you carry him?
"'Cause he's my friend, and besides, he wanted to ride in my new truck."
But I thought you said you carried him to the store.
"I did."
I thought you just said he road in your truck.
"He did, and I carried him to the store."
Oh, so he road in your truck, then you carried him into the store?
"No, to the store."
Huh?. Never mind, Oh, and what fell out?
"What d' ya mean?"
You said something fell out when you were going to the store.
"Oh, yeah, the bottom fell out when we got to the store, and we got soaked through."
You got sucked through?
"What?!, We didn't get sucked anywhere; Yeah, the bottom fell out!"
The truck? The bottom fell out?
"No, we were goin' to go in and then the bottom fell out."
The bottom fell out of WHAT?!
"What?"
What fell out of where?...???!!!
"What?! The bottom FELL out, there!"
What do you mean?
"Man! It just fell out and we ran!"
(I gave up and later relayed this to someone else, who told me what we had been talking about!) A downpour of rain...apparently here in the South, the bottom falls out of the sky and dumps rain on you!) (Which, having lived here for some years, I have to admit it is not a far stretch to say such a thing to describe the torrential downpours!)
Disclaimer:This was an actual, f'r-real, North-westerner and Southerner exchange. No part of this is fiction, but the identities of said parties will be protected, as only in the South they can be.