Things Southerners Say in Traffic
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- It's all about how hard you honk. Yep, in this episode of Things Southerners Say, we're stuck in traffic (probably in Atlanta or Houston, if we're being honest). Buckle up, because there are potholes, slow-driving-PawPaws, and a few Tennessee state flowers up ahead.
Southerners don't need saunas, they just sit out in their cars in summer
You don't have to live in the South for that. We have car saunas in the Midwest, too. Lol.
Southerners have AC
@@hah3456 Some people choose not to use their AC, regardless of their region.
@@freedomdove Not in the Deep South
@@hah3456 Yep, which is why I wouldn't be in the Deep South in summer. Lol.
(At a stoplight) "What shade of green are you waitin' on?!"
It doesn't get any greener lol
My grandpa says “come on it ant turning purple” lil
@@jamierichey Yaassss! 😂🤣
I say "Are you waitin' on a written invitation?"
And if your real country....it ain’t gettin’ no greener.
Okay. The Tennessee state flower joke was pretty close to brilliant.
XD
😆
And oh so true.
@im the one you warned me of lord, ain't that true
Jackson, TN right now 🙄
Houstonians know that crack about the 610 wasn’t no joke. I’m still waiting to get home. And I started in 1999.
Damn, I home your dinner is still warm when you get home.
LOLOLOL!!!! I started in 1982
@@mastersemmy59 My sympathies goes out to your and your family. ;)
@@Habitt5253 LOL!
Surely it will get better once I get on 290
My daddy's favorites were "DO something, even if it IS wrong!" and "The sign says "Yield", not give up!"
My Daddy said "Yield, not surrender!" 🤣🤣🤣 Maybe we're cousins! Where your people from? :p
Those are brilliant
They forgot one…praying for the victims and first responders when you find out a wreck is causing the holdup…and then getting irritated and repenting of being irritated. Repeat as necessary.
It helps if I focus on being grateful it's not me.
Preach!
I thought I was the only one.😠😡😳🙏
This is so me 🤣🤣🤣
AMEN 🤣
I about died when he said the line about how it would be faster to die and be reincarnated on the other side of the 615 loop of Houston.
But unfortunately you'd reincarnate in front of the George R Brown Convention Center still stuck.
@@timmmartin2640 LOL!
I still use 610 instead of those toll roads when I go home. 45 is insane from North of Dallas to the seawall in Galveston.
@@kathleenkirchoff9223 45 is a flipping death trap...you speak the truth
If you miss an exit in Atlanta, you're better off just going back home.
Or if you're on the Perimeter just keep going till you get back to it 😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Y'all are hilarious.
My cousin from KY drove to florida for his honeymoon. He'd never driven south of Opryland. He Bout had a cornary when he got to i75 i285 in Marietta prewreck rush hr. When everyones doing Nascar qualifying. His wife had to drive.
They were doing road construction (as usual) so uhm yeaaaah
But how will they get home now??
“Find the billboard that isn’t for an injury attorney.” I’m dying 😂
This is the defenlty true. I swear Shreveport has to hold the record.
That was funny about the billboard and injury attorney they sre everywhere if not on tv then on the highway.🙄
I honestly don't think a non attorney billboard exists anywhere from Texas>Florida
N.Y.State.....its the same adds!!!!!!!!
Can anyone explain why it is so for those out of the loop?
I have reached the “somebody better be dead up here” stage of road rage
Then nope it’s just a cop pulling someone over or disabled vehicle
You're not alone
Anyone else sit in traffic for apx. 3 mins. before yelling at Siri ‘NAVIGATE TO NEAREST BAR’ while simultaneously jerking vehicle into the emergency lane with flashers blazing?
..Just me? ...Okay. 😜🍻
I actually said that and low and behold, it was a really bad wreck and there was a body with a covering draped over it on the ground. I prayed a quick "I apologize" prayer and then a prayer for the deceased.
They are missing a major one, “if you can’t shit, get off the pot” as my mother always kindly put it. Lol.
Ahahaha that is a good one
Omg lol
Yep that as good one! Just said that yesterday but just a word different! LOL 😂😂😂
Same here....good ole mom 😂😂
Always heard it as "Either shit or get off the pot!"
I was a truck driver for 25 years and all you saw from Missouri, through Tennessee was orange state flowers. It never ever ends. I don't think in my entire career I saw the roads finished once.
We’ve got a saying in Kansas City - “Be like I-435, never stop working on yourself.”
The buc-ee’s comment is so true, but so worth it.
We are getting our very own buc-ee's at the next I-75 exit. Like everyone else in the south, I will be taking the back road.
I am doing all my Christmas shopping at Buc’ees this year! 😂
I want a Bucees that is north of Macon Georgia.
True true
The Triangle in NC will be getting a Buc-ees soon, I think near Chapel Hill.
If traffic is backed up near a strip mall where I live, it’s likely being caused by a family of geese crossing the road.
Does that make you cantankerous?
Omg, yes! We have geese crossing at a Catholic school in the morning. They aren't afraid of traffic at all! I guess they know the driver will stomp the brake and kill everybody in the car to stop for them lol.
@@Meela234 They don’t even bother to migrate anymore - they just hang out at the landscaped ponds by the stores all year. The population got so large at one of the local parks they had to cull part of the herd (they don’t fly anywhere, so they’re more like cattle than birds now).
Do you live in Hoover, Alabama?! I don't miss that 🤣🤣
It is the same by our park.
They have their own sign & they know where to go.
You missed the Cracker Barrels right next to the Waffle Houses on every exit. Including the one with a Huddle House.
I'm sort of surprised they don't have little pop-up Dollar Generals that open up during traffic slow-downs. Kind of like food trucks, only with toilet paper and Clover Valley cookies.
Or the La Quinta ALWAYS next to Dennys.
So, in Port Charlotte, Florida (And you can look this up) in one parking lot or two parking lots that connect, are in fact a Cracker Barrel; a Waffle House, AND a LaQuinta. Almost 99% positive it's a LaQuinta. Can't fully remember if it's with the restaurants or the gas station on the other side of the interstate. Point is, it's got all 3 within a few hundred yards from each other.
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
@@Seeker0628 Red Roof Inn here in TX
You’d think they’d put a hospital next to Denny’s
LOL!!!!
That I-285 comment is on the money. It's also true for I-20, I-75, I-85, I-400, and I-675. Just expect to come to a dead stop at any time anywhere near Atlanta.
400 is not an Interstate, it's a Georgia state highway.
I-77 and I- 26 say ,"Hold my beer!"
Come to Jacksonville and insert 295 and/or the Buckman and....holla!
I was expecting to hear the phrase "Somebody let the cows out." It's what my momma used to say when traffic picked up.
Mine had a similar saying: "Who left the gate open?"
It might have been the dogs- but , you'd hear them running the deer.
Perhaps the black bear were crossing.
They don't even look @ you or, give you the time of day.
Haha Haha! My momma too! I love Southern mommas.
But if a calf didn’t escape its pasture we don’t say that
“ Oh look kids, it’s the Tennessee state flower!”
That killed me 🤣🤣 when you live in Tennessee that hits different
Living in my part of Kentucky, the "three abandoned gas stations and cow, unless cow is in the road," joke cracked me up. I was almost late to work a couple times due to a large bull standing in the middle of the back road I had to travel down. You wouldn't move, just waited patiently for him to go back to the pasture he escaped from. 😂😅
I was late to school once because there was a hog in the road. Another time because of a whole herd of horses. Also lived in small town kentucky 😂 shoulda seen the high school boys trying to get a basking sow to get up and move
Loved the spontaneous pothole formation
"We're only stopped because everyone is rubbernecking... But.... I kinda wanna see too..."
Same. I feel bad for it, but I still do it.
"It's the Tennessee state flower" LMAOOOOOOOOOOOO
Ohio’s state flower is bigger and barrel shaped.
We've got those in GA. They come out in May, vanish in November, and don't a lick of road-work get done the whole time they're in bloom.
Colorado grows those year round. But we grow 'pot'holes year round too😁😳
@@VolcanoEarth what part of GA are you in that they disappear? I do deliveries just south of Atl., and I never stop seeing them.
Here in NYC, those flowers are planted in front of peoples houses to save parking spots. Usually someone plucks those flowers and pulls in.
True
Houstonian here and the bit about the 610 loop is 100% accurate. 🤣
The only other highway that is way worse is i-45. I will I try to avoid that highway at ALL cost.
So true!! I'd rather sit at a few lights on highway 3 to commute
“South of the Border? They’re still open?” - everyone on 95 in the Carolinas
Lol! Love it.
And the food is as bad as ever!
Buc-ees is the Southern start of South of the Border.
Ha the cows in the road part got me. I was there when it happened in nashville a couple years ago. Fun times trying to get home my 25 mile commute which turned into 4 hours…
The comment about Houston traffic is dead on.
Same for ATL traffic. 285 is often called "the world's longest parking lot"
TRUE!
Nailed it! Houston traffic is the worst, although Austin is not far behind. Between the college kids and the transplants (nicer than saying “Yankees”), and the overall lack of sufficient infrastructure, Austin is giving Houston a run for it’s money.
@@johnmarkconnolly6414 facts. If I am going to drive in traffic like that I will save it when I go home to Houston. Lol
Yup i just sit in the passenger seat and take a nap cause I know we will be here fir a while
“Salt life” sticker on a landlocked car equals Navy member to me. ESPECIALLY Ohio.
This is me being all KY defensive. We have more waterways than any other state in the lower 48.
@@lynnhawkins952 yeah but unless there's something wrong with your rivers they shouldn't warrant a "salt life" sticker
@@lynnhawkins952 True but it’s the “salt” part that throws people
See them in Oklahoma all the time, on cars with OK tags. I lost count how many I saw today because was noticing them even before I saw this video.
We have a North coast in Ohio, we have ports, the coast guard, port authority, 100s of marinas, boats, freighters and commercial fishing.
I swear to God! I live north of Atlanta and just went to Buccees today! Also, the Tennessee state flower thing was hilarious 🤣
Traffic cone is the Tennessee State Flower cracked me up! I've lived in Texas, Georgia, and Florida (currently Texas). I've driven thousands of miles throughout the U.S., MOSTLY on I-10 (TX, LA, MS, AL, FL). I think the traffic cone should be the official flower of the United Southern States of TX, LA, MS, AL, FL!
I'm a Northerner and they're in full bloom here, too. The same stretch of road has had them for like 2 years. My old preacher used to say it seems like a bunch of guys get paid to stand around while one guy is in the ditch doing all the work.
"I have a good idea, when we start moving again let's play 'can we find a billboard that's not for an injury attorney'" I'M LAUGHING SO HARD... OF COURSE YOU CAN, YOU CAN FIND CAR ACCIDENT ATTORNEYS 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
0:41
AKSKFKFJDK I CHOKED 💀💀
THERE ARE SO MANY INJURY ATTORNEYS ADS IN TEXAS
Florida too! 😂😂
Kentucky and Georgia too!
I'M JIM ADLER, THE TEXAS HAMMER!!! 🔨🔨🔨
"Is that guy riding a horse?" just caught me completely off guard.
Theres a man in this county that often hitches his mules to a wagon & cruises about on weekends causing a gom. Maybe I should mention we are still figuring out our 1st roundabout & not a community known for any Amish .
Older guy in small city i used to live in drove past the house almost every morning driving his lawn mower to DQ
I met a horse in the road the other day.
Most days there s @ least 1 dog.
Then there was a huge turtle.
He was a little concerned we might need a second ark.
This must have been a G-rated version. 😈
Yeah
I never say anything that nice when I'm driving. lol
Yeah, I love driving when my grandson is in the car. All I hear is "Don't say bad words!!", every few minutes. He will appreciate my vocabulary lesson when he is older.
The 285 Loop in Atlanta is the 7th Circle of Hell 😑
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Tennessee State Flower!🤣🤣🤣🤣
Houston traffic, Florida drivers, and my favorite Buccees!!!!
I was waiting for "Are you waiting for a red carpet? F'n GOOOO!"
The Tenn State Flower was great! You know it's true when you can use the construction as a landmark! North Texas has I35! It's been "under construction" since I was a kid!
Florida is America's Russia when it comes to driving
No California are the ones who can't drive around here.
I lived in Florida for a year. Tourists are the "Mad Russians" of Florida.
Get down to Miami and people drive fourwheelers on the interstate
Yes...yes they are.
I had to drive from my home in Texas to Florida 2 years ago and barely made it out ALIVE!!!!
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Hey! Bucees is a national icon, LOL! If you're in Texas you have to stop there and go to the cleanest bathrooms EVER! XD
Salt life stickers in Ohio?!! Last I knew lake Erie was fresh water😁. Biggest obstacles in our area are Amish buggies. Some of them have colored lights and boom boxes😏.
So hilarious and true! Living in Nashville you see TN state flowers everywhere, it gives you time to rubberneck and see your fellow driver NEVER use their turn signal.🤣
610 has been under construction since Houston has been a city.
And 45
Nah. 610 was there first and still is being built - it's taking so long that they had to build a city around it! XP
Allow me to suggest a gentle change: "610 has been under construction since Sam Houston was a boy"
“Is that a Salt Life sticker on a car with a Kentucky tag?” As a Kentuckian, this was fucking hilarious, I actually snorted. There are far too many Kentuckians with Salt Life stickers. Also, bold of you to assume southerners can drive on a nice sunny day
Adam was the only one buckled up. Lol 😆 🤣
I'm not even from the south, and have probably one of the thickest Boston accents you've ever heard, but these videos are AMAZING!
0:26 "A lot of people don't realize this, but it's actually faster to get around Houston if you skip the 610 Loop, and just die.......and reincarnate on the other side."
😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Same with 285 loop in Atlanta;)
@@pinkrose5796 And also the I485 loop in Charlotte. :D
That is absolutely true. Or fall into one of the potholes they don't repair, come out on the other side of the planet, travel the distance you need to, and then resurface in Houston in another pothole. This is possible because, no matter how much construction equipment you see, they are not actually fixing anything in Houston and natives have learned how to use the potholes as portals.
This is funny without no cussing or any nasty remarks thanks for keeping it clean
Used to live in Norfolk, which is the furtherest point of the south closest to the North. The traffic to and from the naval bases is a nightmare. I moved home to the mountains of beautiful North Carolina. When I go to Boone, it is just like Norfolk traffic...on two roads. Just can't get away from it.
Did you really just say that *Norfolk* is the top of the South?
Have you ever been to any of the rest of Virginia?
King street is the worst. Especially on game days.
Uhhh, how about Maryland? (It was a slave state after all)
Nah, the James River is the top of the South.
@@christianmuttart3987 Everything south of Prince William county excluding the Richmond and Norfolk areas are apart of the south
The Tennessee state flower -- LOL! You can see them in the wild on I-75 between Chattanooga and Knoxville -- they've had a good crop of 'em growing since about 1974, and they show no signs of stopping any time soon. :-)
Had to travel for work to get ID card updated at gov’t building. Two choices were Atlanta and Athens, Ga. I’d rather drive longer to get to Athens than have to drive to downtown ATL.
You probably got done faster, even with the mileage.
I sometimes have to drive from Cumming to Marietta for work . Options are 285 loop or take 120 across. Guess which one I prefer. I would rather put up with stop light on 120 rather than take my chances there’s an accident on 285.
"Hey, buddy, make sure you take up your half of the middle there!"
You got thing right no one merges in Atlanta traffic.
My mom would attempt to merge and get mad that no one was letting her merge. She learned how to drive in Washington D.C. She would complain about the Atlanta traffic.
0:26 Having reincarnated multiple times across Houston, I'm officially dead at this
So true about those injury attorneys! 😂 Alexander Shunnarah billboards are a staple.
If you want a harder round include church sponsored signs telling you you're going to hell.
The worst traffic in the South can be found:
A. I-85 in Atlanta
B.I-10 in Dallas
C.Around the Cracker Barrel on Sunday
I NEVER want to drive though Atlanta again....EVER !!! I never seen six lines going in the same direction......in all my born days .....
Having been a student commuting to Houston, Matt’s comment is spot - on!
Huddle House..... I'm not that hungry. 🤯
In west Texas it's the New Mexico tags. They seem to have only two modes. 30 mph over the speed limit, or 30 mph under the speed limit.
Definitely not listening to this in the car while driving definitely not 🤣🤣🤣
Y’all this one was perfect! The horn honking, the Bucees! Pawpaw driving slow!!! Omg!!! 😂😂😂
"Its actually faster to skip the 610 loop and just die and reincarnate on the other end." Y'all. We live in Houston,TX and that is probably the funniest and truest thing I have ever heard.
That one had a huddle house? Not stopping there, I totally agree!
Alexander Shunnarh! Used to be the only way I knew I was in Alabama!
Call me Alabama
Tru dat, there's one at every mile marker it seems like!
The relatability levels of this channel is beyond anything ive seen in a long time
OMGOODNESS!!!!!
Houston girl here and you are SO RIGHT about the 610 Loop...otherwise known as "The Texas Aggies Hurricane Evacuation Route"!! LOL!!!😃😊🤣😊😃
Gig em
🤣🤣🤣 When you complain about the rubbernecking and then when its your turn you commence to rubberneck! So accurate.
New Mexico has that same state flower. Ours are more barrel shaped though. Sure, we have a plant that's supposed to be one, but that's just a lie they tell you to make you feel like we have an identity or something.
Especially the never ending I25 or I40 construction zones
@@karenashton5053 I swear that there are more orange cones... err barrels in Albuquerque than there are people.
New Mexico is such a beautiful state with the most…traumatic roads!!!
I-44 in Tulsa. 25 years of those and still going strong.
@@obsidian00 You haven't been to Oklahoma City then. Albuquerque roads aren't near as bad. Just drivers that think red lights are a suggestion.
State Bird on 64? Bless your heart and read between the lines. 🤣🤣🤣
Buccee's: low cost fuel and drinks, expensive fudge and sandwiches.
Oh my I died laughing, avoiding Houston hahaha, Huddle house ain't that hungry, this was a good 1, BTW the orange cone is known as a SNYDER egg in the trucking world
The Kentucky car with a "Salt Life" sticker was probably from Louisville...or Lexington...well, maybe Florence area (ya know, lower Cincinnati 😄).
Yep. Spring Breakers.
“It’s actually faster to skip the 610 loop and just die. And then reincarnate on the other side.” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 As a native Houstonian I can confirm, and agree, with that statement! 🤦♀️😂🤣
the atlanta comment was just perfect, like chefs kiss
Hey y'all
I'm laughin so much my eyes are leaking.
I can just hear those comments.
Needed the laugh.
So appreciate that you left out the words that weren't green & purple!
Just to clarify, us Floridians drive at least 85 mph on any given highway, no matter what kind of car we have. Y'all must be talking about them Northern tourists that just like to site see while on the highway.
"Drive it like you stole it!"
"Come on, fish or cut bait!"
"Big pedal on the right, push it down!"
The only advertisement our billboards have....
is propaganda
I live in Houston and truer words have never been spoken than those at 0:25.
The OFFICIAL state billboard in Alabama is Alexander Shunuhruh & his scary mug.
I'm from Louisiana & I have seen this with my own eyes.
Agreed
In Colorado, it's Frank Azar. That's their version of Alexander Shunnarah.
We have him on the coast in Mississippi.
And on tv in Alabama Call me Alabama get so sick of hearing that
I really enjoy watching your videos. They are funny and most important kinda peaceful nothing to get angry or worry about.
Need more of it. Maybe some recommendations for other channels. I need more positivity.
"Hasn't this section of highway been 'under construction' for 3 years now?"
There are a couple of roads around here that were under construction for 5 years. The contractors take on way too many jobs, then skip from one to another each month.
Hilarious! Love the comment about I-610 in Houston. Been there, done that!!!
Don't you dare judge Papaw going to get his breakfast, there's always Huddle House!
Are they open during a Hurricane tho 😜😂
@@languagelearningdabbler Honestly? They probably are. 😂
The crack about Atlanta traffic is spot on. What's funny and terrifying at the same time is there are signs on the interstate that say "Don't even THINK about slowing down."
Potholes - that's a Michigan thing. LOL
I wish that somebody in authority could explain to this native Californian how New Hampshire, with terrible winters and no, or little, gas taxes for road maintenance has roads with no potholes and smooth surfaces while in LA with no snow, hardly any rain and the highest gas taxes in the country, supposedly for road maintenance, I can barely drive two blocks without a pothole?
Try Arkansas.
The pothole!! 🤣🤣 I can't breathe!
Here in South Georgia, five miles from the Fla/Ga border we have a lot of those bad Florida drivers on a daily basis. Trust. 😂
Tell me about it!!
@1:35 as a Louisiana native, this made me laugh a lot harder than I'd like to have..
The only reason the Hardee’s is alive here is the maw maws and paw paws during breakfast hour. Soooo accurate
Back around 95 or so , i heard somewhere that the intersection of Hillcroft and Westheimer was the busiest one in the world, not just Houston, usually when i am trying to get thru it.
Surprised you didn’t include gator on the road
This video was brilliant. Loved the turn signal joke.
Don't forget to put the blinker fluid in.
😂😂😂😂
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No.....no....no.... it's more like.(Yelling out the window.) "Dang! What's goin' on here? Oh, Bubba! Whatcha doin' stoppin' your tractor in the middle of the road? Yes, I've seen an alligator snappin' turtle before. Yes, that's a big one. Hey, I gotta get to the feed store before it rains, and you probably gotta get that hay baled. Yeah, see you later. Tell your Momma and Daddy hi for me. See all of you on Sunday."
Things Southerners say while vacationing in the North!
Georgia Bucees y'all is so good! Where else can you get a awesome Brisket sandwich and farmhouse decor in the same place😆
To hot to drive should be a road condition in the south.
Then we'd never be drivin!
LOL that sounds just like me when I’m stuck in traffic. My favorite I say is there is a pedal on your right if you push it you go. I know it’s amazing.