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True story, My grandmother had gotten a little tetched in her last few years but most of the time she was ok, When my grandfather passed we took her to the funeral home that evening for the viewing. There was also another family there for a viewing in the room next door. Granny read the name by the door and started to walk in, we stopped her and said "Granny this is not our room." She looked at us and said" I know that but I dated this man before I married your Granddad, I just want to see what he looks like now."
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DAMN.
Now that's funny!😂
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One of my classmates had Cerebral Palsy and was non-verbal and chairbound. He'd started highschool about 6 years before, but graduated with us. When he got his diploma, he did donuts on stage in that power chair. We all cheered him.
20+ years later JJ is still a hero of mine.
Grandma rolling down the hill like Wesley and Buttercup in Princess Bride. 😂😂
As you wish!!!
I went to a funeral once for a middle aged man. On the front row there sat his widow bawling her eyes out and clinging to who else? his mistress who was sobbing hysterically and clutching the widow.
Damn who they sharing now?
My uncle was a minister. Someone requested Hank Williams Sr..singing " I Saw The Light" but the wrong track got cued and "I' m so lonesome I could cry" came😅 blaring out the speakers.
I went to a double funeral the mother and father were killed in their home by someone looking for their son. At the funeral as I was walking into the church, I saw two of their family members fighting in the middle of the street and then when the family walked in both sides got to fighting on the front row, aisle and by the caskets. The paster yelled for them to all stop. My family and I got up and left. We figured if that all happened before the funeral even started, we didn't want to be there for the end.
That's not so much Southern as it is just trashy. Ugh. So disrespectful. Good on you for leaving.
I’m a pastor who has officiated many funerals over 20 years. The one I remember best (worst?) was when an elderly woman passed away and had requested to have her favorite singer, Gene Watson, song played: Farewell Party. I asked the grand children who were planning the service if they had ever listened to the song. When it got to the lyrics “I know you’ll have fun… I know you’ll be glad when I’m gone” the look on their faces was priceless! We did play part of the song but cut it very short.
In 1989 my friends mother passed at the age of 90. At the reception after the service 58 of the 60 people brought fried chicken. The other two brought deviled eggs. Also I was a pallbearer. I was 24yrs old, the next youngest was 82.
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Oh my God, that is so funny!!!!!!! Funerals are interesting at best
My brother-in-law passed away. While the long winded preacher was performing his service, the deceased’s brothers and nephews would periodically leave the church for a while before returning to the pew. Turns out they weren’t overcome with grief, but were partaking of a cooler full of PBR in the back of one of their pickups.😂. Man were there some mad women folk when we finally got to go outside and line up for the procession! The deputy sheriff then led us all to the cemetery with the wives driving their husbands 😮. Best funeral I’ve ever been to 😂
Well hell yeah that's a West Virginia funeral
So wait, is this not normal thing to do? Lol
Sounds real. (I usually assume people have to use the restroom.)
At least that Walmart graduation wasn’t at the Dollar General, LOL!!
Couldn’t have it the DG. They’d have to move the boxes.
Or Waffle House.
@@leegraves101😂😂😂😂
Or the Hardee's!
Our old Kmart is now a middle school as well as the big lots that was next door. I used to tell people that I bought my first game system in their school.😂
I think Southern funerals ( Texas ) have both tears and laughter. When Mom died ( proud to say all grandchildren participated in some way ), her first boyfriend attended! He was her high school boyfriend. He got up to say remarks about Mom ( who died at 74 and was married to Dad for 54 years ). He talked about a funny and romantic story and my Dad yelled “Here Now!” Everybody laughed including Dad and Mom’s first boyfriend!
Most southern funeral? Went to the funeral of a friend's elderly father (I was a teenager) who had been a backwoods Church of God preacher (no shame in that), and it turned into a loud revival, with music, speaking in tongues, and Holy Spirit dancing. Most of the attendees went up to the casket to be saved/recommit themselves. My friends and I were laughing so hard out of shock, we sort of folded in on each other so we'd look like we were crying.
Most southern graduation? When we graduated, our not-too-large class was told we wouldn't be allowed to have a prayer at the ceremony, full stop. So, we all cooked up a plan. We were on the football field, and when we walked to exit, with everyone still in the stands and the President of the local school board still sitting on the stage, we stopped and made a circle. When the last person was in place, we said The Lord's Prayer. Once done, we all threw our caps in the air, and everyone -- and I do mean every one of us -- gave a *very* loud rebel yell. They brought the prayer back the next year.
Great story, y’all!! Good for you!!!
I LOVE your graduation story!!! The funeral story was pretty great too😂😂
Funeral: Beer Keg at the viewing
Beach: Someone yelled “Hold my beer” before diving in after a jellyfish
Graduation: Red Solo Cup was the Class Song for that years Graduating Class
At a Mississippi graveside the moment the benediction finished we heard the distinct "Pssssh" of a beer.
Inner tube from a tractor tire for a float was THE Cadillac of floats when I was a kid. Was telling my kids about that just the other day if you could scavenge one and patch it (again) you were the envy of all the other kids (and half the adults too)
Yeah, but you had to keep flipping it over because the black surface would get scorching hot.
My grandfather was stationed at an Air Force Base in L.A., (not California), and the officers always got first pick of the inner tubes off the heavy equipment when the tire could no longer support the heavy equipment. They'd patch 'em up and send them home with swimmin' in the bays and inlets in mind. The tube valve stems were pretty sharp, and yep, you could get some fair severe burns off'n them things. My grandmother would sew together old towels as tube covers, and grandfather would rope down the valve stems. How none of my kin ever got et-up but a gator, I'll never know.
@@llofdarkwater9152 oh my! I'd forgotten about those pesky valve stems. Always water side down for sure. We would hang a 6 pack from some clothesline we "borrowed" .off mamma down into the cooler part of the water.
I’m thinking the graduation that happened in the old Walmart was a lot cooler than any graduations I’ve been to in the South because it was indoors and, most likely, air conditioned!
Definitely cooler than mine, which was indoors because it rained on graduation day for the first time in ten years, but that many people packed into the gym? No thank you.
good point!
One, my hs graduation had enough 'lack of clothing reveal' incidents in the past that when you arrived at the gym for graduation you had to have your graduation gown unziped to show that you had clothes on underneath. Also, we had a ranch store move into the old Walmart building 15 years ago, and locals still call it, 'the store in the old walmart'.
My college graduation ceremony was held in a county livestock ring, red dirt and all. I was in a wedding that was delayed as the best man turned out he was sleeping it off in jail in New Orleans for drinken brawling the night before . I was at a funeral held on the banks of a creek as the deceased ashes were released into the stream while a fiddle played. Lol Mississippi
Told my family I want my ashes scattered at Reelfoot Lake. Just show a little respect and don't start fishing until after the dust settles.
As soon as you read "so people have to lean" I knew that was going to ge good 😂 this was great, definitely more of reading people's stories and giving your reactions! ☺👍🏻
I should have replied to the southern funerals. I have a good went to the funeral of a family member with 2 women fighting over the casket about who he loved more. This members big brother strolled up behind them and said he's dead. Didn't neither of y'all win, now shut up and sit down.
Lol just the other day I got excited that my hometown is getting a dunkin donuts and said we're movin up in the world 😂
Not sure what was funnier, the stories or your reactions to them LOL!
Have several stories, but the one that sticks out for this topic. At my SO uncles viewing before the service. One of the aunts came around offering each of us a sausage biscuit from Hardee's. Obviously I was confused by this and commented I thought the food was served after the funeral I got a " bless you're heart, he woulda liked knowing we sent him off to Jesus with our belly as full as our heart".
We need a mullet man update!!
Sending love to everyone from Australia 🇦🇺
Thanks!! Love you back from Tennessee ❤
Ooh, can we do weddings next? My mother's...?fourth? wedding she(deep breath so I can give you all the devastation in one go) voluntarily got into a wheelbarrow in her wedding dress and allowed herself to be wheelbarrowed across the highway and all the way down main street to her reception, which was being held at the local Army and Navy, and which everyone was excited for because there was a wedding-themed meat draw to be held. My hometown had about 9,000 people in it. Guess how many of them didn't know by homeroom the next day? Oh, and did I mention - I was 12/about to turn 13. Yes, I was in middle school.
*shudder* I feel like I should be holding a flashlight under my chin while telling that one.
question? how many times did your mom get married?????????????????????????????????????????
@@quinncoleman1158 That is the question, isn't it? So many I lose count. I remember around the time I left home she had had as many as Liz Taylor because that was the joke in the family - I just looked that up and Liz married 8 times. Between my leaving home and ending all contact she married twice more. It's been a little over a decade since then so it's anyone's guess by now! Some people date. My mother had another man move in as soon as she changed the locks on the doors from the last one, and a marriage soon followed.
"I'm a little bit countryyyyyyyyyyy!"
@@burnyizland wow that’s alot
My friend built a go cart whose body was a wheelbarrow and we rode it all around with him dressed up as a moose… but your mom wins 😂
@@hannahrobbins1017 Hahaha I would have liked to see that! That sounds awesome.
My cousin wore overalls to my aunts funeral. No shirt under either. Mississippi
Our small old Walmart was turned into a Tractor Supply and Goodwill combo.
Your deep fryer on the beach story had me thinking of DudeDad bringing his to the hospital for at least 2 of his kids births! He may live in Colorado now(you can take the man out of the country) but you can't take the country out of the man.
I can garrentee fryer on the beach dad was the most popular guy on that beach
I got a problem... we used to have the inner thingy of a tractor tire to take to the lake with us... I was born and raised in east Germany - basicaly as far away as you can get from southern USA 😅 And yes, they float awesome! It's just a big rubber ring, filled with air.
Most southern thing I saw a funeral was deviled eggs at the reception after the service. Most southern thing at a beach is me as a kid chasing ghost crabs with a net and flashlight.
At least the step grandmother's ringtone was at ACDC's highway to Hell
Way down in Alabama we had a friend to die one of the biggest rednecks in the south . The day his funeral was it stormed all day ,the Hurst couldn't make into cemetery so they put him on back of jacked up 4wd and pall barriers held a tarpolline over the casket.
Living near a river, tractor inner tube are all the rage, but most of us couldn't afford that for swimming.
Let’s do weddings next! I went to one in rural Texas at the local VFW hall. The bride and groom were late because they were still “tubing” on the river. So the guests stood around drinking beer until they got there. No announcement was made but all of a sudden, we see them with the officiant in the corner of the hall getting hitched. There was a moment of confusion as we decided if etiquette dictated putting our beers down. We didn’t. Oh, and they handed out beer koozies that said “To have and to hold and to keep your beer cold” and the couples’ names. The koozies outlasted the marriage. 😂
You need to incorporate some of these into that newsroom sitcom you did.
I laughed through this whole thing. Pleeeeease do this again! And please add wedding stories, haha! And birthing stories, lololol
Yeess! And maybe proposals too
I sadly, at my Grandma's funeral heard when the roll is called up yonder. I said sadly because I remembered a song leader had a look of panick when he sung the part , " I'll be there" and was pointing down . I could not help but laugh, and they all looked at me.
The funeral stories were great! The floral arrangement with the plastic phone reading, Jesus is calling, killed me.😅🤣😂 No pun intended.
My sister and I went to a funeral last Monday agreed the guy who sang sounded just like Elvis singing hymns.
The ultimate southerner would also monogram their truck, driveway and front door.
Aaaaaaaaand GO!
You're not wrong😂
I gotta tell you about my bff's mom's funeral! This was in AL. Her mom went to Auburn, but almost everyone else in the family was an AL fan. So what did Paulette request on her casket? All of the flowers over her casket were Auburn colors! My bff & Paulette's friends all wore Auburn panties as well! Pretty sure they didn't show them off though! Miss you Paulette!
Go War Eagles!!
This was not at the funeral, but. I was working in a fabric store & this lady came in to buy like 5 yards of black netting. Her husband had died and she was determined to out mourn her husband's girlfriend/common-law wife.
Deep fryer on the beach sounds awesome, actually. I'd kill for my town to get a Popeye's.
Another family and ours went on vacation to a beach in Florida. It had rained buckets and there were blue crab everywhere. They were even sweeping them out of stores and off tennis courts! The guys bought a styrofoam cooler and filled it full of crabs for dinner. Back at the condo, the crab at the top of the cooler had stuck his claws in the styrofoam and the guys had to wrestle him out. When he popped out all the other crabs poured over the sides onto the counters and floor. About 15 barefoot, screaming adults and kids were jumping on sofas, chairs, tables and running out the front door. Oh, for a camera.
Not a funeral and I wasn't there, found out after the fact, the mountain top graveyard of a few sets of my grandparents was eroding so they had to move my great grandma and Grandpa before they fell off the side.
Dug them up and moved them in 20 feet or so.
When my aunt's husband died, they had to have a special and separate viewing for one side of his family that was essentially exiled and banned from the family.
I went to the viewing at the funeral home and there was a flower arrangement that had a toy phone in the middle. The phone was off the receiver and the banner say…Phone Home.
My cousin and I laughed out loud! Totally inappropriate 😳
Have a friend whose mother owned a florist shop in Mississippi. She said it was all the rage at one point to send a funeral wreath with a toy phone on it that said " Jesus Called"
Those were greatness!!
And if it can’t be monogrammed, they will make a monogrammed cozy for it!🤗❤️🐝
Those were amazing. More of this!
When my brother passed we had a gathering at the house after the service. House full of people, back porch full of people. I quietly mixed up 5lbs of tannerite grabbed a rifle and walked to my shop where i have a 100 yard range out the back door. I set the tannerite at 100 yards walked back to my shop and shot it. Huge explosion that left a crater in the ground. 4-5 people knew i was going to do it. The other 30 or so were very shocked. Then my brothers best friend and i sat in my shop and shot for a while.
OK, not southern at all. So get ready for NORTHERN envy. My nephew, by marriage, had a wedding reception worthy of the under side of the Mason-Dixon line. Well the bride was a what we would call a M____ Princess, on a count of her daddy running the local branch of the "Family". I didn't know anyone much there, so I just wondered around. I kept hearing the same thing from both sides. "I don't know him. He must be somebody from the other side." Well I don't know how many under cover agents were invited on either side, but they were here. The people running the catering kept clearing the dishes and putting the chairs away as soon as anyone stood up. Inside info??? yeha. My husband And I got out right before the fighting started. The groom spent the wedding night in jail. (He was Golden Gloves) The Mother-of-the-Bride got a broken arm. We made the News. Take that South.
😂😂😂😂😂 Are you sure y'all ain't southern???
“On this… the day of my daughtah’s wedding.”
i wish i had known about this. i have a funeral story that would blow you away...if you had the nerve to air it.
This doesn't pertain to the topics here but back in '89 when my husband & I got married, my Mom & I were looking through the paper for our engagement notice when we read a wedding announcement from the next town over (way smaller than our town) it gave the usual descriptions of the people getting married, where they got married and then it said, "a reception followed at the local KFC". My Mom just turned at me and gave me a very sinister grin and said, "guess where your reception's gonna be?". Thank God I loved my Mom's dark humor or else i would have died. I wish she were here cause she'd get the biggest kick out of this page.
Went to my husband's grandma's funeral. She was 98 when she passed. She had married at 13 and had 9 children. At the visitation 2 older ladies came up to my husband and myself and introduced themselves as my husband's aunts. He had never seen these women before. Apparently they go to all the visitations and introduce themselves as family members. This blew my little old Yankee mind.😂😂😂😂😂
I'm excited for this video. Y'all always brighten my day.
We need Morgan in more videos! Love her energy (and Liz too of course). 😊
Loved this video
Before I was born, my daddy said when his daddy died there were all these crying women at the funeral. My dad was an adult and asked his mom who all these women were. Nobody knew. According to my dad my grandfather was a player as well as a pool and poker shark.
I love Talia the most, was hoping to see her again. Can't get enough of her😊!
My college roommate shared this one:
At his high school graduation, as soon the students took theirs seats, one pulled a beer from under his gown, cracked it open and drained in a matter of seconds. He then raised the empty can as high as he could and dropped it onto the concrete floor. The echo rang throughout the building.
I would like to tell you a story about something me and my family did at the beach one time. Now of course, we are southerners, if you can’t tell by the fact I’m telling you this story! So one evening we were grilling some burgers and all of a sudden, rain comes out of nowhere, now being from the south, we don’t give up to easily, so my dad finds a pease of flex glass and tells my cousin to hold it up (in his white shirt mind you) and hold it up, so the flames on the grill wouldn’t go out. The burgers where good and I would go through that experience again
This was great!
The symbolism of the transformation of mullet man 😂
Pensacola Beach in the 2000s- 2 young guys were trying to get a couple girls to act like they were on Girls Gone Wild. The girls' friends ran up and screamed "don't you dare! I didn't bring you to the beach to be tacky!"
Omgosh yall! Somebody shot grandma, and the bass boat procession was the best!!! Please do many many more of these!
we recycled our old walmart building too; the city bought it & turned it into 1 of the largest single story libraries in the US. -oh & don't worry about the waltons... because we still have 4 walmarts... 🤣
So good
Y'all kept me laughing on this one! Liz, love your hair!!
Gotta tell you about what happened with my husband & I at a black funeral. We were at visitation & having a prayer circle. All standing around, head down, while prayer being said. My husband had not put is phone on silent vibration and it began to ring. That was rude enough, but the ring tone played DIXIE. Nobody looked up, nobody acknowledged it. My husband let go of my hand & grabbed his phone & silenced it. My black friends never mentioned it.
At my sister's high school graduation, a LARGE woman, wearing a house dress and ABSOLUTELY NO supportive undergarments stood in her folding chair and yelled, "My baby did it! He finally graduated!" When she started jumping up and down, I was afraid she was going to take out our whole row. My mother made me wear pantyhose.
Only story I have is about a funeral. There was a small plane circling over the funeral home pulling a banner that read: I TOLD YOU I WAS SICK!
RIP to that mullet. We hardly knew ya...
I went to a funeral for a young boy that passed and it was so sad but when they played the music it was all from The Eagles album. Whitchy woman and all lol. Apparently it was his favorite band so I understood the reason why but it was still hard to keep a straight face.
At my cousins funeral they played spirit in sky. It was very fitting for who he was 😂
Back Living in a little town on the Mississippi Gulf Coast i lived in for a couple of years back 40 years ago before i moved to Chicago, and was shocked when i went in to one store and found a little head shop tucked away in the back.
And yes, I have been back for a few supplies
I've lived here in the Great State of Texas for almost 5 years; though I'm from Hawaii. When I first moved here, I was terrified,thinking of people asking ne right of the bat where i was from, in Deep Southetn accents. But it never happened. I've fallen in love with Sweet Tea; and Southern cuisine already. I'm glad I found Ya'lls channel too. Very good content.
Not proud of this, my Grandma died on New Year's Eve 1996. She lived in Gainesville, FL and the funeral was in 1997 after the National Championship game so there were more than a few National Championship shirts worn at her funeral.
Wonderful video. More like this please!
Morgan was amazing! We need more of her in It's a Southern Thing.
I graduated from an HBCU Lab school--full of professors' kids and other professionals so my first teaching job was chock full of culture shock. My first time experiencing a country southern graduation revealed some of the differences. We had graduation inside our gym/auditorium and the guests dressed in suits and dresses. At my first teaching job, some of the family of the kids came in shirt sleeves outdoors in the school's football stadium. Later, I realized why the principal had made a strange announcement at school the day before and just before the ceremony when certain families and friends would stand up like they were in a football game and yell, "WAAAAHOOO!" and the kid getting a diploma would yell back. Then at the end of the ceremony during the recessional the graduates lined up to walk off the field. But instead, they ran off screaming "WAAAAAAHOOOOO!" and tossing their motor boards and a few gowns up into the air for a crew of teachers to pick up behind them. Inevitably there would be a noisy vehicle loaded with teens circling the school while shouting out the windows and from the back of the pickup, "WAAAAHOOOO!" Sometimes a noisy vehicle would circle the next school day.
I also recall the secretary was such a southern bell that she wore a dress with a slit and a big white slip which showed through the slit--because a belle in the early 70s was not going to be without her nylon slip under her dress, not even on the hottest nights in a high school football stadium.
And the county I live in a high schools do not have a space big enough to hold high school graduations. So every high school has to fight for time and space at the first Baptist Church which is the only venue big enough to hold high school graduations
I grew up in Oklahoma; we used baby oil and iodine
So did my cousins! They swore by that recipe. I'm like Casper the friendly ghost, so it was sunscreen all the way.
We want more.
The most Southern thing I have seen at a graduation: Public school graduation in the church.
Anna Maria is my main beach and for the record, the most southern thing I've seen is my uncle Shane walking with socks and sandals, with his son with a mullet who also has socks and sandals.
I NEED this to be a series NOW!
At the university where I work, it is tradition for the new graduates to walk straight out the stadium doors and jump in the river, robes and all, regardless of which season they're graduating. (also for the funeral one - one of my great uncles was buried with toy tractors)
Do you mean Texas State University? Go Cats!
My aunt was the first person to be buried in the official, licensed Chicago Cubs casket. She was a great fan for 70 years; I was so happy the funeral home was able to get the casket in time. (It had only just been released)
I've heard the one about the grandmother fainting after the firing of the guns. But the child's language was more colorful. Thanks for not using such words.
Wish this was posted on the FB group. I have a photo of Southern beach time I want to share.
But Mullet Man sacrificed his mullet powers.
All of those cans of dip left unshared. 😢😢😢
Don’t ever use Crisco to tan, those of you who still do that. My friend in HS did that (yes, we’re Southern) and got the worst sunburn you can get without a nuclear bomb. It was awful!
Crisco is supposed to be for after tanning.
My friends and I used a tractor trailer tire for intertubing down a snowy hill once. Other people kept showing up and joining in the fun with their car intertubes. Our tractir trailer tube held all five of us college students. By the end of the day, sall paths leading down ended up meeting. It was like bowling because we all got to the bottom atbthe same time. Our five person tube was the bowling ball and all the other tubers were the pins. POW!!!!
Most southern funeral I have ever heard of was when a man in a small town I used to live in passed and the family put the casket in the back of a pick up waving the confederate flag and did burn outs in front of the cemetary. Can't get much more southern than that.
Tasted great 😊
Once my big sister used mayonnaise to try to get a tan. Lord she stunk!! It didn't help her lack of tanning ability at all though.
Death of Mulletman!
... .Don't worry, DC Comics will bring him back to life in a couple of months. They do it all the time with the Superman. =)
My sister saw a tow truck hauling a hearse leading the funeral procession.
Also with a funeral with a bass boat, let's just say you know those pallbearers in the back of that pickup truck will figure it out. He was going to get that bass boat