Top 5 Things that I Will NOT MISS About Alabama

It is time for the KrazyFam to move again....so it is also time for the Top Five Lists. In a lot of ways, the Deep South is a lot like living in a foreign country for me, so this might be a challenge.....

5. The Southern Drawl. It is cute on little girls and pretty women...but horrendously annoying on everyone else. I am sorry....it makes you sound a whole lot less intelligent too.

4. "What church family do you belong to??" A favorite question from all Southerners. I have yet to perfect the answer for this one...usually I just fumble my way through something. I really need to come up with something snazzy like "We worship the Pagan Gods every solstice at dawn. Nude in the backyard."

3. Bare feet. There is this weird Alabama/Montgomery thing where they let their kids go everywhere in public with bare feet. Yes, I mean into stores and restaurants. It is so odd (and gross) to see a 10 year old dressed in Sunday best, with bare toes, walking through Wal Mart. Ewwww....

2. The War of Northern Aggression. I mean seriously. The Confederacy lost. Get over it.

And the #1 thing I will NOT miss about Alabama
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1. TORNADO SIRENS!!!!! If I ever hear another siren, so help me, I had better see Dorothy and her sparkly red shoes swirling by the window. The sirens here go off if there is even a wisp of a maybe-sort of-kinda tornado, ANYWHERE in the county (and it is a big county). Which pretty much means every time there is a thunderstorm.