• You can buy beer at a drive up window and the corner grocery but you have to drive to the Virginia side of Bristol or Johnson City to buy hard liquor ( brand name and taxed ).
• You know what a "holler" is and know them all by name in your county.
• You refuse to use the new names 911 gave to the roads because of yuppie move-ins pressure. You still call it the Dogtown Road, Bugaboo Holler, Dump Hill and Pogie.
• You helped run the KKK out of town.
• You’ve had the local sheriff’s dept. deliver a quart of shine to you when you couldn’t get out to get it yourself.
• The local sheriff and the resident state trooper buy their liquid refreshment from you.
• You stock up on mothballs every spring. The crawl space under your house is covered in them. You’re NOT covered in snakes.
• You call everyone older than you aunt or uncle.
• You can cook on a wood cook stove.
• Your kids have snow days because some of the kids have 10 times as much snow as they do in town.
• You get caught in a DUI check point at 3 in the afternoon, and get an ankle bracelet with a large charm from the county.
• You ride a horse or mule to work because you lost your license.
• You borrow your neighbors license plate so you can drive into town.
• The weatherman from town calls for a dusting of snow. You walk out into waist deep white fluffy stuff.
• You KNOW that these mountains eat automatic transmissions. You can eat a moon pie, drink a coke and shift gears all at the same time.
• You’ve been " maid of honor" in baggy sweats and your fuzzy Elmo house slippers.
• Your dog has had the UPS man treed on top of his truck.
• You know what a "mountain fiste" is. You also know that THAT is the proper spelling for 200 years, not the way the UKC and AKC spell it.
• You’ve made like a hood ornament on a shopping cart while your cousin pushed it thru Winn-Dixie ( and totally embarrassed your {then} Yankee boyfriend.
• You’ve embarrassed or scared half to death every Yankee boyfriend you’ve brought home to the holler to meet "the kin".
• You don’t know a stranger.
• "Family" ain’t necessarily blood kin. Lots of times they’re no relation at all.
• You flew the stars and bars at half-mast when Cousin Minnie, Bill Monroe , Grandpa Jones and Dale Earnhardt crossed over the river.
• You know what a goober pea is.
• . . ."the old lady" , "the old man", "old woman", "old man" are terms of endearment the same as "honey" "sweetheart", etc.
• You’d rather raise and can your food rather than go to the store.
• You can’t wait for ramps and branch lettuce to come in season.
• Mary has ever met you at the courthouse at midnight to renew your tag ‘cause it expired and you forgot about it and you have to drive out of state tomorrow and it’s a weekend.
• The church bus comes and picks up your kids for church.
• You don’t see anything unusual about a sign on a building saying "Freewill Baptist Church and Wheel Alignments".
• Long lines in the store don’t upset you. Just start conversatin’ with the person behind of you.
• You always plant by the signs.
• .You’ve ever used the back of your pickup as a beer can disposal.
• Turn signals are considered an optional accessory of vehicles.

Sandy began a job as an elementary school counselor and she was eager to help.

One day during recess she noticed a girl standing by herself on one side of a playing field while the rest of the kids enjoyed a game of soccer at the other.

Sandy approached and asked if she was all right.