Chicken Fried

Well i was raised in the south. Almost as south as you can get. I hail from Georgia. And I don't regret any day living there. I was raised eating fried chicken, fried okra, and drinking sweet tea. I went to flea markets, and went to Wal-Mart. We also shopped in Salvation Army, and Goodwill, I didn't see anything wrong with it. It was my normal. When I was about 10 I was still wearing overalls, and I didn't see anything wrong with it. I was raised listening to country and that was it. Like there was nothing else to listen too, now that i think of it, I wasn't sheltered. I saw my parents struggle with money problems, and saw them fight. I saw my dad punish all of my siblings, but I could tell that it was differnt between my blood brother and myself. I was raised in the bible-belt states. I didn't get to church often like I should, but I was under the influance of my parents. They were to take care of me, and we just didn't go to church often. When we did, it was awesome. I loved going, and learning, meeting new friends, and just having a good ole time. I was raised saying yall, ma'am and sir. I was raised with black people, as far as the eye could see. I have no problem with hillbillies, rednecks, or black people. Some of my closest friends in Georgia are rednecks/hillbillies and black! I was rasied differnt from lots of people. I mean I really thougth that a lot was spelled alltogether! LOL! School systems in the south aren't the best, but in Georgia, they are probably the worse. Test scores there are awful, they have came up, but not by much. The south to me, is as far up to N.Carolina, and as far over as Kentucky and Arkansas and Louisiana, but everyone else are Yankee's or Westen! HAHA I know that it's not right, but thats just what I think. I know that the south goes all the way up to Maryland! Which sounds crazy right? To me it does! I do know that there are some crazy redneck people up in Penn. and Even in New York!  But, anyways, on more about how I was rasied.

My parents shopped every years for us kids (6 kids) at Wal-Mart for school. We got all our clothes and supplies there. I remeber asking my dad one year, when I was about 15 if we could go to the mall to shop, he told me I was crazy, he didn't have the money to be spending $50 bucks on a pair of jeans, and that was the end of it. I wasn't spoiled. I knew my parent's couldn't afford to pay for my college, I knew that they couldn't afford to buy me 150 dollar purse, even if I pitched a fit for it. (which, if I ever came across one that cost that much I was ask myself who needs one that cost that much anyway?) I was perfectly happy with wal-mart clothes, and if my friends didn't like my clothes, then they aren't real friends.

I know there are some people out there that just have to have the finner things in life, because that's what mommy and daddy spoiled you with, but guess what? If you don't have a trust fund, or some hidden away money, then your going to have to work for those things. And your going to have to work your butt off for it. Right now, with our moeny, I think I can keep on buying wal-mart things, and not make a big deal out of it. I don't care who I run across in wal-mart, i know there are really hard working people out there that have no other place to shop at, other then wal-mart.