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That rumor would be true, good sir! (However, as a dyed in the wool southerner, I ain't picky, either!)--funny side story 'bout that....
Once, when I was travelling cross-country....oh, it had to be mid to late october when I hit Idaho, cos I ran into a snowstorm....not far from the Oregon border, at about 2:30 in the morning, I decided to stop for the night....every place I passed was flashing a no-vacancy sign (bad storm....drove everybody off the road), but finally, a bit off the beaten path, I found a little "mom and pop" lodge that didn't have their sign flashing, so I stopped.
Sadly, a trucker had taken the place's last room ahead of me, but apparently I reminded the proprietor of an old army buddy (he nailed my accent down on the first try cos it was the same as his army bud's, and correctly guessed that I was from South Carolina). So, we sat talking for a while over coffee, and I told him that if it was okay by him, I could just catch a few winks out in my car in the parking lot.
He laughed and said "you Suthern boys aren't too particular, are you?"
I chuckled too, and agreed that no....we aren't particularly choosy about some things, and he tossed me a blanket and told me to catch some z's on the couch in the TV room of the lodge....much warmer than the parking lot, to be sure!
So....beer, tequila....whatever's handy....
-=Vel=-
Once, when I was travelling cross-country....oh, it had to be mid to late october when I hit Idaho, cos I ran into a snowstorm....not far from the Oregon border, at about 2:30 in the morning, I decided to stop for the night....every place I passed was flashing a no-vacancy sign (bad storm....drove everybody off the road), but finally, a bit off the beaten path, I found a little "mom and pop" lodge that didn't have their sign flashing, so I stopped.
Sadly, a trucker had taken the place's last room ahead of me, but apparently I reminded the proprietor of an old army buddy (he nailed my accent down on the first try cos it was the same as his army bud's, and correctly guessed that I was from South Carolina). So, we sat talking for a while over coffee, and I told him that if it was okay by him, I could just catch a few winks out in my car in the parking lot.
He laughed and said "you Suthern boys aren't too particular, are you?"
I chuckled too, and agreed that no....we aren't particularly choosy about some things, and he tossed me a blanket and told me to catch some z's on the couch in the TV room of the lodge....much warmer than the parking lot, to be sure!
So....beer, tequila....whatever's handy....
-=Vel=-
Thanks man! It's funny you should say that, cos the whole time I was writing that out, I kept thinking of all the little details I could add to it (bits of the conversation, the feel of the road, blanketed in snow, etc), and it could have easily become story-length! 
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