Country People vs. Sales People

[@alostrich]

Subscribe or eat JW's cheese sticks

[@14styrofoampackingpeanuts88]

Don't threaten me with a good time!

[@obi-juantacobi8552]

Will he give me a discount on the mount if I eat his cheese sticks?

[@kevinramsey417]

Why not both?

[@blakehartsfield8423]

Guarantee if you made JW's Restaurant.. they will come. And you better have some BALLER cheese sticks.

[@rksnj6797]

How about subscribing while eating JW's cheese sticks?

[@technicolordreamer]

"Everybody is your neighbor. Do you not go to Sunday School?" 😃 Another way to confuse non-Southerners.

[@dwaynesudduth1028]

Hey! I'm a non-southerner, and I went to Sunday School...now I help run Sunday school for Middle School and High School, and Wednesday nights for 9th and 10grade boys.. Although, to be fair, my grandmother was from Kentucky... and I'm itching to move to NC..

[@SofosProject]

Honestly considering how far apart houses are in the boonies, I wasn't surprised to hear his neighbor lived on a different street.

[@ninjawriter83]

I went to Sunday school in Chicago, and married someone that leads a Sunday school in Seattle, LOL

[@asdisskagen6487]

I'm not sure that confused is the right word.. panicked is more like it - do they admit they don't go to Sunday School and risk you castigating them as a godless heathen and promising to pray for their soul? Or do they claim that YES, indeed they do go to Sunday School and risk having their bluff called by you asking which church they attend and if they know Bobby Sue.

[@dizzysdoings]

I'm in South Jersey and am getting ready to get a shower so I can go to Sunday School. Can't get it earlier since I have horses, chickens and a rabbit to feed first and they're not in my backyard. Don't think the neighbors would appreciate it 😂

[@jefferymcguire327]

My favorite line was "everyone is your neighbor, didn't you go to Sunday School"

[@SGBassplayer]

Came here to post that same thing.

[@jacobwise786]

😂😂😂

[@johnsjoholm]

Or at least watched Mr Rogers

[@jkm4645]

As both a country boy and a former salesman of high-speed internet, I can confirm this is 100% true.

[@asdisskagen6487]

The only time I have experienced "high speed internet" is when I deployed overseas with the military. There are some crazy weird 3rd world countries in Europe (I'm looking at you, Estonia) that have better internet than I've ever gotten where I live. Granted, I have always lived in BFE, but still...

[@nunyabusiness5075]

@@asdisskagen6487 Well, if the country is the size of a postage stamp then you can wire up the whole country without too much effort if you want to. Ever heard of Andorra? It's a little country in between France and Spain that has some of the best internet on the planet, speeds I still can't get here.

[@jlyvren89]

@@asdisskagen6487 I wonder how many people know what BFE is? I know I do... 🤣👌

[@erichildebrandt9490]

I got one of the cellular antennas on my roof for internet, otherwise it’s dial-up for wired internet where I live. I let those guys (and the T Mobile guy) go for a minute since they are so persistent and love asking open ended questions. I know damn well that my home can’t get any of those services.

[@ericolens3]

Oof, sorry to hear. I love the sweet spot of the suburbs. Its less populated than the inner city, but i cant do that farm/rural life. I love nature and the wide stretches of land. I love to go joy riding. I just admire the people who can live off the land. I need to live off the stores and the internet. I've driven down a gravel road before and I cant imagine when the tree falls or the road floods or just gets too muddy. Having the water supply being based off a well. I need a water treatment facility not a septic tank. Yeah, I'm a spoiled suburban dude, and I admire you rural folk but I've become accustomed to a certain life style. I remember living in the city and having a reasonably short time without power cuz of overhead power lines. Its just awesome having them underground now. No roaches in years cuz of no large trees. I just cant do it. Maybe one day, but its just so far out and away. I mean we're all gonna die one day, but when my health fails from old age I want to be within 10 mins away from the hospital, not 45 mins and stuck behind the slow tractor tying up the road.

[@mosunshine326]

LMAO. I grew up in a town with population of 87. My dad was the local grocer, feed store, clothing and shoe store, hardware store, deli and gas station....and was Mayor and Fire Chief (he got tired of watching houses burn while we waited for the nearest fire department to arrive). I started working at 6 years old and had a hernia by the time I was 10.

[@asdisskagen6487]

There were 14 kids in my graduating class in high school. The grade above us was from a local "baby boom" - it had 23. There were 1300 people in the whole county.

[@umbreonix]

That hernia came from carrying the town on your back lol

[@bamachine]

@@asdisskagen6487 There were only 25 kids in my 7th grade class, then I moved to the big city for high school, where my graduating class was about 90 kids. We were like NYC to you guys.

[@feliciapate7926]

Why does this sound like Green Acres??? * kidding * For real, I've seen places like that. I've seen New Brockton Alabama and Friendship Alabama.

[@feliciapate7926]

@@asdisskagen6487 -- That makes me feel better about my graduating class of about 27-29.

[@LMacNeill]

"Rumor has it, they're gonna build a Dollar General there." That's pretty much the safest bet whenever you see an empty field in this area. LOL!

[@karlsenula9495]

Or a tornado came through ...

[@AflacMan13]

"I gotta transfer to another store." *Gets transferred to the new Dollar General in Bucket Hill.* 😅😂

[@stephanianelson4539]

It is so great to see videos about country folk that don’t portray us as stupid. Your character was quick-witted and funny and I’ll bet he could tell a good story about the trouble he and ole J.W. used to get into!

[@asdisskagen6487]

The difference is likely that everyone associated with "It's a Southern Thing" is, in fact, Southern. That is a far cry from the caricature of Hollywood stereotypes written by people who grew up in an urban jungle who couldn't identify the animal their ground beef came from.

[@katie7748]

​@@asdisskagen6487 I watched a video the other day where the gal was explaining to people that to get more chickens you need roosters. Why? Because she literally had viewers asking questions about it.

[@asdisskagen6487]

@@katie7748 OMG, was it THIS video?! kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYWydn-ArMZsmac

[@jaysnow701]

@@katie7748 there are things i do not understand about chicken mating(refuse to google). I understood the rooster "made" them produce eggs. I just never understood how they got fertilized. Which later i learned was false, still baffles me why my grandparents had a rooster when they didn't let any hatch. The rooster never touches the chicken, the chicken produces an egg, the egg would have a forming chicken when you dropped it in the cup. As a kid i had no clue it was just EEMMOTTIONULL DDAAAMAGE. As an adult i just have no clue.

[@dylanjwagner]

Country folk aren’t idiots. The Venn Diagram of idiots and country folk just has a lot of overlap. Gotta weed out the shitbirds from the good’uns.

[@brentshepard3925]

“Course it didn’t make sense in leaving it open after both students graduated” 😂😂😂

[@lethargicmotorsport2025]

That was my favorite part .

[@BionicMilkaholic]

Mid-westerner here. I remember my grandparents mentioning the sizes of their high school graduating classes. One was 11 and the other was 9. That would have been in 1950 and 1954 in Indiana. They lived in a town too small for a dollar general.

[@Aerowind]

Reminds me of my grandma's growing up. She lived across the street from a catfish hatchery and the only store in the town was a combo gas station/video rental store/grocery store/dairy queen. But it was definitely a real place because there was a water tower with the name of the town on it.

[@theseeker4700]

Lmao!!! Damn

[@ellerj641]

As a southerner and a Native American, my response to "Where do you live?" is, "See the dollar general on your right? Don't turn down that road just keep going. If you get to the red silo with the green cow, you went too far. My house is where the land meets the sky, under the sun and the moon, and where the eagle flies and the bison roam free."

[@russs7574]

This is how we give directions in Pittsburgh, too.

[@Nikkimommyof4]

Love it

[@TheAlfrulz]

Wait, are you JW?

[@karenashton5053]

I’m a southerner and now live in New Mexico and these are such accurate directions!!

[@45auto]

Green cow?

[@suem6004]

I am pretty sure that sales guy was a shapeshifter. His clipboard was going in and out of this dimension.

[@brandonwenzel2844]

Ok! So I'm not crazy.

[@ladybee883]

I noticed that. Reminded me of something I saw on the Science Channel about a "cloaking shield ".

[@HariSeldon913]

Similar happens to me on Zoom calls when I'm using my virtual background.

[@grimsoul0]

It was just a glitch in the Matrix.

[@TheCharleseye]

Some dude was spotted in that exact store a few decades ago. He was playing rock music and driving a DeLorean. I feel like that had something to do with it.

[@Nursewifemomlife]

I feel this. The nearest gas station from my house is 30 minutes away. GPS won’t get you to my house, it’ll drop you off about a mile down the highway with absolutely no turn offs and tell you “you have arrived”. It doesn’t help that while we have a highway address, you can’t see the house from the highway, we have a mile long driveway and live in the woods.

[@perfumedelight66]

That’s the good life right there.

[@azurephoenix9546]

Lmao. Google maps puts our address in another state. 😆 It made the move here real interesting.

[@calebfielding6352]

only a mile long drive way. You only half country then.

[@ziaride]

Yep. Where I grew up addresses were something like Mile Marker 187.

[@tracydimond3759]

At one point we lived down a dirt road in another county here in lower Alabama. When we had to tell people how to reach our place there, it always ended with us saying "and when you see the big statue of an elephant in the yard, you've found us". The previous owner was a big 'bama fan, so he created it. Now, we live in another county and the directions have " if you drive past the water tower that looks like a circus tent, you've gone too far." Edit: and I warn them that their gps will be useless. 😁

[@newgrl]

As a rural dweller... this is pretty accurate. And quite funny.

[@asdisskagen6487]

IKR?! I only stumbled across "It's a Southern Thing" a few months ago and I've been playing catch-up, but I absolutely CHERISH each and every post. It's so hard to find much positivity in today's crazy world and I am so happy there are people like Matt and company putting out so much clean humor.

[@CiarnaK]

First time I visited a cousin at their family's new home, my cousin warned me that the GPS always takes you to the boat ramp at the end of the road, there's no cell or internet services for up to ten miles depending on the wind, and they live about twenty miles past the last "no fuel stations for 80 miles" sign. Still surprised Google Maps was (barely) able to find the address.

[@bec7080]

hell I live in the middle of a city and until about 6 months ago GPS still took you to the middle of a trailer park I don't live in and I had to tell people "ok when you turn on my road follow the directions I send you because if you follow the GPS you're going to end up in the middle of a half abandoned trailer park"

[@mitchellminer9597]

Always marvelous, Matt. Emotions and innocence and messing with somebody. My county has several dozen place names that nobody seems to know about. My brother skipped a year in a one-room school because the teacher didn't feel like conducting first grade just for him, and decided he was smart enough to join the second-grade student.

[@asdisskagen6487]

Can you imagine how much better our education system would be if we went back to locally-supported, one-room style education? Oh, wait ... that's called HOME SCHOOLING in this day and age 😂😂😂 good on you guys!

[@dizzysdoings]

It's pretty built up where I live, but you can also tell how long someone has been in the area if they know where certain places are, like the point. There were two roads that basically ran into each other, nothing between them. I'm sure there were a lot of accidents there, so they put a barrier in between.

[@8bpianoplayer]

My county is the same. 10 different towns and zip codes, and from there different community names only the locals know about...it's so bad when someone asks where we live, I just say "halfway between this town and that other town" since they'll never find it even on GPS.

[@mitchellminer9597]

@@8bpianoplayer 😊 There is a town near me that really is named "Halfway" because it is halfway between two bigger towns.

[@slimnfade]

I now right all the teens are unsaved and old people are saved but problems are way different i have problems of that of a teen but saved and learned of that of a student of Christ.

[@BrandonIT1337]

OK, true story. I am from the sticks and yes, I did this with somebody at Wal-Mart one time selling internet. I had to try to explain where it was I wanted to check internet service. After 15 minutes of trying to figure out what major cross road was nearest, I told him I was just checking for my aunt because I had been fixing her computer and it was sooo sllooowww... He walked off.

[@laceydo4542]

Honestly, he asked for it by not being upfront and honest about what service he was offering! I'll ninja sneak the long way around to avoid sales representatives though!

[@Salvanas42]

As someone who just moved out to somewhere with just a gas station, a restaurant, and a post office this rings very true. Getting internet was a nightmare but trying to get appliances delivered would've been worse. Wound up borrowing a coworker, her truck, and her two brothers to get them instead.

[@cherinay1]

I can’t wait to go to my Walmart and try this out on the Direct TV people that won’t leave me alone 😂

[@newgrl]

DirecTV's easy to get rid of. Just tell them you cut the cord 10 years ago.

[@HariSeldon913]

@@newgrl Essentially what I do. They ask my current provider and I say, "roof antenna. Do you think you can beat the price?" and it's over.

[@baddog9320]

Also direct TV can go anywhere. if you have Electric you can get direct tv. Hence why you can get it for a RV.

[@warcraftlake7]

My walmart is right next to signs that been used for target practice. Nobody ask you anything there.

[@dalekarrick8588]

My dad lived in the country with a rural 911 address.... confused the DishNetwork people everytime.

[@ellkay8518]

I have lived in the same Southern city for 20 years (rookie numbers, I know) and my job involves receiving patient referrals and assigning them to the health clinic closest to their home. On a regular basis I come across someone who lives in a town I have definitely never heard of that is only 15 minutes from my house.

[@panthercreek60]

" Who are your people?" Asked by every Southern town lady

[@qbear1045]

I am 60 years old, born and raised Southern girl (and proud of it), and I have now spent about 21 years in the upper Midwest. I love these videos as well as the "Midwest nice" videos. They are so accurate except that I left the South before the invasion of fire ants and Dollar General stores. I will say I do love hockey and have been swarmed by fire ants (when I lived in Texas just prior to heading North) and whenever people where I live complain about winter, I always say, "but we don't have fire ants".

[@Problematic1980]

Over the past 20 years we have lived all over the country (hubby's job); its great when people try and pin point where our girls are from because they are more comfortable in small town life then urban life; they are equally comfortable with salt life, snow shoeing, desert clay, and gator filled bayous (their favorite).

[@timburton9514]

Far aints

[@joeymccullough2716]

You know J.W.? This is sooo dang funny, but right on the money! Good one, Matt!🤣😂🤣

[@pathiggins4455]

Years ago, for work, I was visiting cell phone associate dealers (think Joe's Garage, Bait, and XYZmobile) and the address on my sheet was State Rd. 23, stoplight. That's it. So, I got on State Rd. 23 at one end and drove until I saw a (THE) stoplight, and there it was, bigger than life. Nice guy; bought some soda and ice cream while I was there.

[@therepairsloth]

I love this!!! I would love to mess with those sales people like that, but I've seen people genuinely wind them up. I usually mess with call-in telemarketers, though. Oh, the things I do to them.

[@michaelmartin4874]

The last scam telemarketer that called me (knowing that they used an autodialer), I answered the phone with "FBI Cybercrimes Division, Agent Martin speaking. How may I help you?" They immediately hung up.

[@melindoranightsilver9298]

Just last week, I freaked out a telemarketer. Made them think we had a serial killer in the area and they were trying to break into the house. I went through a whole production including, dropped some heavy items onto the floor (from a short diatance so there was no damage). They kept asking for my info and then I finally screamed. At the end of the conversation, I told him it was just a relative who forgot their keys and was wearing a chicken suit. I haven't gotten a call this week yet 😆

[@thecursed01]

@@michaelmartin4874 also good: "good timing. she's dead as ordered. deposit the payment at the usual place and lose this number"

[@michaelmartin4874]

@@thecursed01 Nice!

[@thecursed01]

@@michaelmartin4874 I bet they know it's not real, but also that it's no ise trying to talk to me. Yours is better.

[@brianethridge208]

Can relate. We lived in a rural school district, had a postal address in a different town and a phone number from yet another town all at the same time. "Where do you live?" required some followup questions.

[@BoarderMiah]

My granny has a zipcode from the town of 400 that is 18 miles away from her and people that live there use the medical and shopping services of the big town in that county, but all her utilities come from another county, where the nearest town is 40 miles away in the other direction. Her phone has a different area code than the phones in the county she lives in. Plus the first three numbers are not this, but like this. 234. And there is a town in the county that is opposite like 243, so she has to watch for people 'fixing' her number by changing the area code and reversing the two numbers!

[@allenf8]

The gas station/ taxidermy/ accountant/ restaurant got me as I use to do deliveries to a hair salon that did taxidermy orders in the back and was connected to a gas station with a pizza place in it and a Subway sub shop also connected to the gas station.

[@Oilfieldscout]

I live in west Texas and there is a place that has one road into it off a paved county road. This single road is the only entry of an area of about 60 square miles. You are directed to go to Slim's doghouse. All directions are predicated on knowing the whereabouts of that landmark. Issue is, said doghouse (a small shed built for oilfield hands to do paper work) no longer exist. Seems Slim suffered a heart attack and died in said doghouse. In 1943. The doghouse was torn down sometime in the 1960's. But to this day all field directions are based off where you turn off the road after you pass Slim's doghouse.

[@ritasmith9553]

I KNEW that 'new Dollar General' was coming! Love ya, Matt!

[@thefineartdiner6945]

Matt, you're just the best. You're just the best. Thank you so much for taking your time and energy to share your incredible talent with us and make our days brighter and happier. With all my heart, thank you for doing that! May God bless you and all those you love!

[@pointly]

As a former salesman, it's amazing the country people you meet.

[@dalekarrick8588]

I worked in retail cell phone sales and grew up in a town of 300. The small town folks loved dealing with me.

[@kirsbeasley87]

As someone that grew up in a town where everyone had two jobs (the local radio DJ is also the coroner, the veterinarian runs the car lot, etc) and Radio Shack, Western Auto, and Cellular South were all in one business, this really hit home 😆

[@cm5838]

Our radio shack is also a bbq and appliance store

[@Michael_Livingstone]

While visiting in the southern US, I was solicited to see if they offered Comcast where I lived. I told them I was visiting from Alberta, which they weren’t sure where it was, and actually checked to see if they had cable and TV service in Canada. Their response was “unfortunately we don’t have service there, yet..” LOL

[@Jaxmusicgal23]

Wow😂

[@amyforsyth1502]

I love the disappearing/reappearing clipboard 🤣

[@mandalorfortytwo4557]

Love it!!!! And hey, up here in Yankeeville, my home town has JUST gotten onto its first map so i feel your pain of not being counted!!! My entire life was: we are located about 20 minutes south of Hartford, there are 2 exits with our name on it (but now, we are down to 1!!!) I guess thats why they put us on the map!

[@JessKerr-zj5dn]

Growing up the standard response to an unexpected knock on the door was "don't want none" just in case. No one unexpected should ever enter the yard of any unincorporated town policed by the county only very reluctantly and after 45 mins of driving

[@sully4627]

There's a place in town called "Our Place". We were out somewhere and this lady asked us "weren't you just at our place?" Wife says, "I don't know, what's your place?" It became a regular "Who's on first" skit for a bit

[@janeenschultz8502]

There's a bar in my current city called "The Alibi."

[@denoftools]

Next time, just look the guy square in the face and say “we got Starlink”. You can literally see all hope drain from their eyes.

[@asdisskagen6487]

Yes, Starlink has been a godsend to rural people EVERYWHERE. Homestead KZbinrs have EXPLODED onto the scene 😂😂😂

[@sammiller6631]

@@asdisskagen6487 Homestead KZbinrs are nothing new.

[@asdisskagen6487]

@@sammiller6631 You are right, but Starlink has really aided that particular niche.

[@sammiller6631]

@@asdisskagen6487 Move over Starlink. Ubiquitilink is going to turn every mobile phone ever made into a satellite capable device.

[@alanlight7740]

@@sammiller6631 - I had to look up Ubiquitilink. They announced they were going to do this back in 2019, but I see no evidence that they will ever have the means to do so. Meanwhile Starlink and T-Mobile are partnering to do the same thing, and Starlink already has a constellation of satellites in place.

[@asdisskagen6487]

"Everybody is your neighbor, do you not go to Sunday School?" BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! OMG, I laughed until I had tears! 😂😂😂😂. I resonate so much with this clip - we lived on a road that wasn't on any map, nor did it show up on Google Earth or on any GPS. Yes, it was a real road, yes, it was maintained by the county. My neighbor had a bumper sticker that said "Possum. The other white meat." We really did live in the middle of nowhere. And OMG, the INTERNET issue ... DUDE - we had dial up, and let me tell you, if a fat Blue Jay landed on my phone line, I wasn't getting online at all.

[@James-po5ed]

This is hilarious because I'm from a tiny town that doesn't have a post office and someone in home depot did the exact same thing to me today with the questionnaire.

[@andrewdescant]

This reminds me of visiting my aunt in Arkansas. My uncle was the mayor and all the fire departments in the area were getting the old fire truck from the slightly bigger town and donating their old one to the slightly smaller town. The day we were there the fire department just happened to stop by to show my uncle the new fire truck. For big city people like me this truck was a pickup truck but it had big tool boxes as tall as cab instead of normal pickup bed walls. It was red.

[@moffjerjerrod1579]

As a Southerner I remember directions like “Drive down yonder (points) to the third tobacco barn, turn right on County Road 324, and its the third dirt road on the right.”

[@southerndigest8996]

“Someone cleared a field in town and we think it’s going to be a Dollar General…” 😂 Dollar General #2!

[@biker5662]

"Everybody is your neighbor. Did you not go to Sunday School?" 😂That was awesome.

[@ponderosapondhomestead4344]

We live in the middle of the middle of nowhere! Yes, closest Post Office depends on which direction you go😂😂😂 Our city family can’t believe we go to town. They say what town. I tell them it’s where the Post office and Dollar General are. They just shake their heads.🤪😂🤪😂 I love my neighborhood!

[@DoiInthanon1897]

My dad is a salesman and he deals with these conversations like this. Relatability index is high on this one, Matt.

[@zacharysnyder2520]

I worked in car sales. This is accurate to the people living out in the AZ desert. You’d be surprised how many they are.

[@kmbbmj5857]

When people ask where I'm from, it's like trying to explain the relation between Bugtussel, Hooterville, and Pixley. Then one day in a state 2000 miles away I met a guy at work who asked. Funny part was I just got the first part out and he said "Really, my wife is from .... Do you know firstname lastname?" Turns out her dad and my dad knew each other from high school.

[@derekwalker4622]

It took a minute to get really funny, but when it did, I laughed the rest of the way. Good'n there Matt!

[@megancunagin1518]

LOVE this!!! We just tell them which county we’re from, they don’t service our area. Just yell out the county as we speed walk by them

[@ghostlyrose8946]

I love opening YT and seeing another video from you, Matt. Keep them coming!

[@KevinFishes1]

I grew up in a town with a gas station/restaurant, old motel and a flea market. None of them were open on the same day. Hahaha. Not enough people to work at all three at the same time

[@auntie.shannon]

Dang, I wish I'd thought of this to get the Direct TV people to leave me alone at Wal-Mart.

[@Hyperdisk]

I found a nice trick is to tell them work pays for your internet/tv and you don't recall who the actual provider is.

[@parley1994]

My method is to pretend I don't hear them and just keep walking.

[@Jaxmusicgal23]

Yeah, the Walmart sales people are obnoxious. Spectrum Internet/cable tried to bug me and I told them I had high-speed fiber optic Internet and wasn’t interested in going back to cable…. And kept walking

[@Thoroughly_Wet]

"where do you live?" "Well my address is for this town but the mailbox is 15 miles out on the county line and my house and acreage is in the next county"

[@owentheslug]

ok, but for real, they did close the post office in my dad's town & take his zip code away cause the town he lives in is too small. hell the nearest Dollar General is half an hour to get to on the freeway!

[@dee7353]

When cable tv came to our area they would not come install it without a house number, which we did not have. Our address was a rural route. So, I made up a house number. Decades later and that is the official address with the made up house number.

[@asdisskagen6487]

The post office near us is on a gravel road and is approximately 500 sq ft. It's open when the elderly postal lady feels like working.

[@cynthiajohnston424]

@@asdisskagen6487 I rode my horse to the post office just down the street & a guy from the grain elevator next door came out to hold my horse while I went in to get my mail . Also , neighbors seeing my black Lab. used to give him rides home 'cause " he looks tired " . 💟

[@asdisskagen6487]

@@cynthiajohnston424 😂😂😂

[@turkishgetup3924]

I grew up in Center Grove, AL. The closest post office wasn't even in our zip code.

[@TiredMomma]

"Well shoot, I coulda told ya that!" 😂 Relatable!

[@mikeclark2962]

In my home town we had Tom Daugherty's Bait, Tackle, and Income Tax

[@BlessingsfromNorthIdaho]

😂. As someone who lives in the mountains of North Idaho and has to drive 3 hours round trip to town…..I relate, lol. Blessings, TeresaSue.

[@asdisskagen6487]

BLESS YOUR HEART!

[@barryon8706]

I got a few neighbors. It's just a little hike to get to any of them; don't haven have to pack water.

[@MrRabiddogg]

that's basically where we lived growing up. Post office, school and fire department were from three different towns. We couldn't get cable because there weren't enough homes on the road (all four of us). and the light was at least 5 miles away

[@wramsey2656]

high speed internet in your area!! lol what a kicker at the end!!🤣

[@tygrahof9268]

I know Bucky Hill as I ran out of gas once. There is a nice new road light where the turn off is but they didn't ever put more in as they found there weren't other people with cars there. BUT there is a nice piece of forest by the creek and I didn't really fish much back then but the gas station guy had bait and stuff there so I bought me a few things and sure enough I caught me a little swimming critter! Now, you were saying??

[@Liddlegreenbees]

Fairly certain I grew up on a dirt road 15 minutes outside of Bucket Hill. To this day, people look at me patronizingly and say "what's the closest town?" I tell them and follow up with "but that's an hour away." 😂😂😂

[@WombatDave]

As someone who does not, in fact, live within the borders of any city or town, this is accurate. When I bought my house I found out what company did internet in the area and called them to check if the address could get high-speed internet (cable is fine, I just didn't want to be on satellite). This was before I actually came out to look at the property.

[@MegaKat]

Hahahaha I'm dying,"where's the nearest post office," omg our nearest PO is 20 miles closer than our zip code's PO is located!

[@lennyaponte196]

Thank you KZbin for recommending this channel. I love your videos, Matt! 🤣

[@coreygreek938]

The "one word or two" bit hit me hard lol being from walker county AL , if ya know ya know

[@whosme8221]

The house I bought back in 2015 was so far out you had to have satellite to get internet and they could not use the new electric meters as no house was close enough to get a signal to bounce back to the company for the meter to be read. The electric company still today has to send out someone to read the thing. 🤣

[@advocateforyourself]

I don’t like cell phone salesman because they claim a cell phone will work where I live at. There’s only one cell phone service that work out here then I’m gonna be switching to. The area I live in used to be rural, but it’s around water, so a lot of houses is out here now but they just never put towers out here. We did get AT&T fiber and they took a parking space to put their lines down where nobody can park there anymore. They even run one in a ditch. The service isn’t all that good either so we’re constantly calling them and my sister told them they should be paying us for all the lines running through our yard.

[@kimberleyg4657]

Where my hubby's family is from they use landmarks when giving directions. One landmark was a stone fireplace in the middle of a small field. His aunt lives so far out in the boonies the roads stop having a stripe down the middle it stopped having asphalt. We're not sure if it's a "street" or a long ass driveway. My dad's graduating class only had 10 kids. The whole school had 143 students that's including the kindergarten. That was for the whole county.

[@jucadvgv3449]

many yrs ago i had a part-time job in addition to my 40+ hr per wk full-time job. i worked for a company that delivered airline baggage to folks when it had gotten put on the wrong flight and arrived at the airport at the wrong time/long after the arrival of the owner of the luggage. the people would have to fill out paperwork on lost luggage and when it arrived the airline gave it to the company i worked for (located within the airport) and they would call me or another employee to find out if we were available to deliver the luggage. this was way, way back in the days before cell phones were common and certainly prior to gps. one occasion has always stuck in my mind. i called someone to get directions to a place i'd never heard of before and, somewhere in the directions, they told me to turn 'where the big oak tree USED TO BE' lol! it took me a good 5-10 min to get any sensible directions out of those people.

[@Thehouseoffail]

This is actually a great illustration of how rural areas end up so heavily effected by the digital divide. It's not cost effective for companies to invest in instaling infrastructure in those areas. So, they don't bother. Which in turn makes it increasingly difficult for people living in those areas to have equal access to information. Everything from job searching, to education, to finding local services is made more difficult than it would be for someone with a higher level of access. This in turn componds the many issues that make it difficult for people in those areas to improve their quality of life or have financial security. And because they don't have access now, their situation won't improve enough to entice companies to invest in high speed cables. It's a never endling loop of logic that leaves those ares stuck in economic stagnation. These problems are only going to get much worse over time, as the divide widens.

[@musicmason]

Bless your heart. I promise you, we're doing just fine. It's "affected" by the way.

[@Thehouseoffail]

@@musicmason Bless your heart as well! You aren't in one of the regions I was referring to! After all, you are able to post on youtube during peak hours. Yet, you still had enough kindess in your heart to condescend to someone else on their behalf! Even going so far as to impersonate someone who does face those conditions! Such manners! Truely a paragon of southern sensibility. Clearly your mother raised you right!

[@bulldog81ful]

Wow someone has no sense of humor geez!! Lol

[@randuminsanity]

Holy shit, this is the exact town I took riding lessons in. Good ol' Hooterville. There is a garden center, a horse ranch (with like...5 horses there), and like 4 houses total. There used to be a restaurant, but that closed down when business at the garden center increased because the owner couldn't run both the store and the restaurant at the same time.

[@theredtower1334]

This works so well for all country folks. 🤣 oh the memories. We had 67 ppl (if you counted 12 cows, 3 pigs and the 3-legged dog). My dad went to school there but they closed the tear before I started. The lady that ran the grain elevator was also the grocer, 2nd hand stir owner and post mistress. The preachers wife ran the school bus to take us all to pick up another bus for the next town. Everybody else worked for either the rancher or the pig farmer.

[@jerrykinnin7941]

I wrote Mott City KY in my log book a long time ago. A month later the log dept called said they've never heard of Mott City KY. The called the state of KY. who'd never heard of it. So I said it's at the turn off to Mexico KY. At one time Mr Mott owned 2 gas stations 4 rental houses And a lumber yard. Mott City KY. They said You took our truck to MEXICO? I said no Mexico is across the tracks.

[@Ralphinsc]

Heck, we didn't even get REGULAR speed internet out in my sticks. It was long distance just to call across the road.

[@randomcommenter6711]

I live in a community that is just a church and farmland. The closest Dollar General is 10 miles away. No gas stations, restaurants, or stores of any kind. But we have high speed fiber internet here! Strange times we live in.

[@baddog9320]

Gotta beat. closest Dollar General is over 100 miles away.. No phone lines, electric lines, internet lines for 15 miles.. Closets person WAS 10 miles away. Now its 20 miles. ( he just disappeared but left his 100 dogs)

[@randomcommenter6711]

@@baddog9320 so you live in Antartica?

[@baddog9320]

@@randomcommenter6711 nope just a very secluded part of the US 48. But here Is a clue. I can see Mexico From my house.

[@williammurray1341]

I was born in a little town about 60 miles north of these people. And this is the type of thing I would go through when I did business in Birmingham or even Albertville.

[@Pseudowolf]

See, I knew it couldn't be a Texas town, because he'd have to have mentioned the Dairy Queen. No town in Texas is too small to not at least have a Dairy Queen!

[@haljordan777]

Some of them have Texas Burger instead.

[@asdisskagen6487]

In Arkansas, it's the Dairy Freeze. Not a franchise, but just a conglomeration of bubbas who liked one that they visited and thought "yeah, I could do with one where I live" 😂😂 I don't think I've ever seen anyone older than 16 working in the one near where we live.

[@baddog9320]

Thats not true. Guess you never been to far west Texas ( the part under New Mexico) I know you Hill country like to forget about that part of Texas. And Pinecone land thinks 20 inches of rain is a drought. ( far west Texas gets 3 to 5 inch per year.) North Texas and Central (Pecos) think they are west Texas. West of the Mountians, the only DQ I remember is in El Pisso. Van Horn may have one. But thats over 200 miles strait of no DQ in Texas towns

[@baddog9320]

@@asdisskagen6487 lol decades ago there was one in Licking, Missouri ( yes its a real town) And you are right. never seen a person that looked over 16 working at one.

[@asdisskagen6487]

@@baddog9320 I kid you not, there was a town between Little Rock and Conway (Arkansas) called "Toad Suck" - I think they disbanded it a few years ago, but the "Toad Suck Days" festival (with T-shirts!) was a thing 😂

[@qcroc7]

Matt, pure genious! That may be the best one yet.

[@Joe_Montfort]

1:51 "Do you not go to Sunday School..?" LOL

[@Kaelland]

Real conversation I have had more than once (in a Wal-Mart, no less): Salesperson: Excuse me, sir. Can I ask who your current TV provider is? Me: A 2x4 and some coat hangers. Salesperson: ... Me: You have a nice day now.

[@Falconer22]

"...cleared a field and rumor is, it's going to be a Dollar General. ", lol! The rumors abound when a field is cleared.

[@Hollowelldena70]

I did not see that coming. Love your videos.

[@thechieflegofanatic9194]

These videos really make me miss home. Good ole Rockmart, GA.

[@coolbrotherf127]

I worked for an internet service provider here in rural Alabama and many houses don't really have an address that any GPS service would know about so it could be difficult finding both their house and the location of the internet junction boxes that were randomly down some road. Often times took longer to do that than actually hook up the internet.

[@andstuff152]

🤣🤣 super true though, grew up in a town of about 250 in alabama. And there is actually a " sweetwater" alabama like he mentioned in the video too. Only about 200 ppl there as well. The office where went to pay our water bill was also the mayor's office...and it was a trailer lol. We didn't even have a dollar general til 2015.

[@thesong7877]

"Then why would you...?" "Why would I what? I was just here and you talked to me out of nowhere. I didn't know you were trying to sell internet until the end of the conversation..."

[@motleythewild]

I live in the boonies and feel this. We don't even have a post office. Non-country folks are a whole other breed

[@jimpemberton]

I lived right outside of Statesville, NC, but because we were technically in the county they bussed us up to North Iredell, which is in Olin. Olin was a township, but the town center was off the main road on a loop. Still is. Olin had a population of maybe 200 people at night and about 2000 during the day. Kids would often drive farm equipment to school because they had chores before or after school that they could drive straight to the fields. We had two weeks out of each Fall where many of the kids were out of school to help with harvest. Anyway, you could tell a salesman that you were in Olin. If they were in the area, they understood. If they weren't, you probably weren't talking to them anyway. Olin does have a Post Office, however.

[@pamkillian6049]

Hey there fellow Iredellian! I live in Mt Mourne! I bet you know where Dooley Terrell and East Mambo are!

[@jimpemberton]

@@pamkillian6049 East Monbo isn't too far from where I currently live in West Iredell. Doolie is at the southern end of Perth Road, but I don't know about Terrell.

[@cindy844]

I'm right above you in Yadkin County! Our two high schools (Forbush and Starmount) are both out in the middle of nowhere.

[@jimpemberton]

@@cindy844 Some of the best people I know live in the middle of nowhere and Yadkin County has a lot of beautiful nowhere to live in.

[@kypdrayson]

Dang, I didn't realize JW's was a franchise! We got one too!

[@nikkip.Christ-is-King]

When people ask where I live and then get really confused and think I'm visiting. Nope you're the next town over for me. You drive through on the way to this town you know of. Oh okay.

[@paulmartin2348]

I have watched all till now and this is the best yet. First one worthy of a comment. Keep up the good work and take care of your awesome family. 😀

[@noahcoomer]

I work at TROC (The company that sells phones at Walmart) in Princeton KY. That is exactly what it was like selling those God forsaken phones. I last like a month before I quit and began working for Walmart.

[@ben-me9jy]

That was great! I know people like the man messing with the salesman! It is fun to watch! Great skit!

[@BigLes85]

Love it! Great job Matt. Im needing a new Bless Your Rank if all possible.

[@BoarderMiah]

My mom, grandma, and two uncles live in a place called Nogo. My great grandpa named it back when there were Post Offices everywhere, because it is 40 miles in any direction to a town of more than 400. My granny's house is the only one you can see from the highway. That and the old church. Well, there is an abandoned house visible, too, but you can tell the cows have taken it over. The state decided to put up road signs for Nogo about 20 years ago. They are on eaither side of my Granny's front yard. It took several years before people stopped stealing them.

[@steadmanuhlich6734]

Laughed at the bit about the Walmart return policy (and how he returned a used weed eater). I've been in the return line and seen some oddly "well used" stuff carried or "returned" by others in line ahead of me, including a half eaten birthday cake. LOL! (the things people try to get away with...)

[@RevRedmondFarrier]

I work at a WM and one night I was waiting on the trash compacter to be unlocked and noticed an old worn out bike sitting by the compactor door. When the manager got there and unlocked the compactor, he tossed the bike down the chute. I later found out that someone had bought a new bike and later used the receipt to return his old one and got his money back. I am not sure what circumstances led to him getting away with it, but I bet the lady over loss prevention about blew a fuse when she found out.

[@SarafinaSummers]

I'm so sorry, ma'am. Let's just scrape the toothmarks off of it and shove it back in the display case for you." How did they think this would work?