REMEMBER WHEN LUMBEE GRANDMAS .......

REMEMBER WHEN LUMBEE GRANDMAS .......
1. Didn't own a pair jeans. (Ms. Minnie and Ms. Maudie didn't own any skin-tight jeans with frilly designs on the back pockets!)
2. Wore a house dress and an apron everyday but Sunday. On Sunday, she had her church dresses and they all had to come from Pates, BC Moores, Belks, Penny's, or Catos.
3. Cut straw off the ditch bank; gathered it all up; tied a pretty ribbon around them; and used that straw broom to sweep the yard. A blade of grass or a grain of sand didn't stand a chance in their yards. The whole front yard looked like it was paved in concrete.
4. Always had a dishpan of peas and butterbeans to shell on "duh porch".
5. Cleaned coffee cream containers and saved them for spittoons. However; the Clorox jugs was saved for Granddaddy. Because a woman needed something small; not a gallon jug!
6. Could press two fingers on their lips and spit "ova duh porch banuhster".
7. Looked forward to getting the BIG CAN of snuff at Christmas.
8. Washed her hair "eva Saddee", put it in pink rollers then went to Piggly Wiggly.
9. Could hold a dishpan in her lap, roll up collards in one hand, cut them with the other hand, and never need a cutting board.
10. You never looked at them and thought "COUGAR". If she wasn't related to you; you still called her "AINT".
AND no matter how big you got; you were still scared to death of that little woman who would hold a switch and threathen to "beat duh piss out'n you".