Hey Cur...

Deloris is a very proper southern woman, always sweet, always polite, just plain proper. Because of her properness ( is that even a word? ) I was so surprised when she greeted me one day with-
" Hey Cur, how are you? " I sort of smiled and I said " Good and You? " but I didn't hear what else she said because I was thinking what did she just call me? I let it pass, thought I heard her wrong, when a few days later she used the term again. This time she said " Hey Cur can you come here and help me?' I went over to her and helped but was very puzzled, I couldn't be hearing her right, but why then did I hear the rest of what she said right? Again I let it pass, but I was sort of holding a grudge, was she really calling me a cur? a mongrel dog? The next time she said it I just stopped dead in my tracks and said what did you just call me? she said " What ?" I said yeah that's what I want to know- what did you just call me? She said " I don't know " I said did you just call me a mongrel dog? She said " No, I never said any such thing". I said then what, to you, is a cur? She started laughing, she said it's "girl " the way it's been said over years in the South that it came out like that and now that's the way we say it, She said when it's said like that " it's a term of endearment ". I said " Oh I thought you were calling me a mongrel dog " .She said " where in the world would you get that from? " I said " From to Kill A Mockingbird,
Atticus Finch shot and killed a rabid cur on the street, isn't that what everybody thinks of when they hear the word cur?! "
Well apparently not..... to my surprise some of them haven't heard of Atticus Finch or even To Kill A Mockingbird, and it's an amazing southern story!! What is going on down here? They've never heard of Atticus, Scout, Jem, Dill or even Boo Radley!!! When I said Scout someone actually said " isn't that the name of one of Demi Moore's daughter's?!! Yes it is but... come on now if I had said a line from Reservoir Dogs or Dog Day Afternoon I could understand ( still would surprise me but... ) but to not know To Kill a Mockingbird- in the south that is just shocking. Now I know why they looked at me blankly when I said my dog's name was Boo named for Boo Radley from To Kill A Mockingbird and her AKC name is Celtic's Girl Misunderstood, because her breed is misunderstood just like Boo Radley- I guess I had that whole conversation with myself- because they had never heard of To Kill A Mockingbird!!
So I will close this rant with a quote from To Kill A Mockingbird, this is something that Atticus said to the children ( always makes me tear up ).

" I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know your licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what "


To put my feelings in " southern style" Yeah -I love me some Atticus Finch:):):)