You Know You're From Chatham County When..

[VAHeel]

I'm sorry if I offended you, PJJ.  I will try not to address your comments in the future.

[Silk_Hope]

I know it seems like only Eastern Chatham posts but we in the West are a minority. On my road we are the only family with high speed Internet because of the cost. Fortunately my work pays for it. We are also more sparsely populated and IMO not as technically oriented as the East.

OK, here is an old piece of history for the West. My kids Great Grandmother lives down the street, she is 89 now. She tells us stories about all of the roads being dirt and going to Siler was a huge trip. There were little stores up and down the Silk Hope Liberty Rd. The shell of one store is at the Foust Crossroads (Staley Snow Camp Rd.). She went to school in a small log one room schoolhouse she had to walk through the woods to get to. There was also no electricity out here for many years. She lived across the street from where she lives now as a little girl. She married the boy across the street and has lived in the same house ever since.

[VAHeel]

Those are great Chatham County memories, Silk_Hope, thanks for sharing!

[girlfrompbo]

aww, the boy across the street.  thats too cute.

[mamacash]

We used to go to Durham about 3 times a year...real big deal.....we would walk down main street and get hot dogs from Amos and Andy...the best dogs I have ever eaten anywhere....Sometimes we would go to Roxboro..where we had extended family and we would spend the night because it was to much of a trip to go just for the day....man life has changed a lot....we need to slow down and smell the roses more often.

[ChefMenteur]

You know you're a native of Chatham County if (cont.):

1.  You remember hitching your cart on East Street on Court Day
2.  You graduated from Goldston High School with Charlie Daniels
3.  Charles Manley was once your attorney.
4.  You still resent the existence of Moore County
5.  You were there when Mr. Davey took one look at the brothels and saloons in Pittsboro, and decided to instead found the university up the road a ways in a more wholesome spot.
6.  You knew William Pitt the Elder, and you don't think the portrait in the courthouse is a very good likeness.
7.  You were pulling stumps when Cornwallis marched through, and you flipped him off.
8.  You can name at least five Chatham natives who, at different times, have played the Opry. (Not counting Mr. Daniels)
9.  Your ancestors came over the land bridge across the Bering Strait.

[mamacash]

Sorry, I am not quite that old but I do remember when:

1. we had sock hops at the community building
2. we rode around the courthouse backwards while there was one cop on duty in Pittsboro.
3. we spent the evenings up on the hill at Henry's Restaurant
4. we went to the rock quarry in Goldston and jumped off the ledges into some really cold water.
5. we spent Sunday afternoons playing football on the hill at Chatham Mills.
6. we walked to Perry's Store across from the old Pittsboro School at lunch time.
7. we said the pledge of Allegiance in school every morning and saluted the flag.
8. we treated the teachers with respect and knew if we acted up at school Mama and Daddy would no be angry at the Teacher!
9. we knew if we started a fight.....there was an adult who would finish it for us.

[belle]

Sorry, I am not quite that old but I do remember when:

1. we had sock hops at the community building
2. we rode around the courthouse backwards while there was one cop on duty in Pittsboro.
3. we spent the evenings up on the hill at Henry's Restaurant
4. we went to the rock quarry in Goldston and jumped off the ledges into some really cold water.
5. we spent Sunday afternoons playing football on the hill at Chatham Mills.
6. we walked to Perry's Store across from the old Pittsboro School at lunch time.
7. we said the pledge of Allegiance in school every morning and saluted the flag.
8. we treated the teachers with respect and knew if we acted up at school Mama and Daddy would no be angry at the Teacher!
9. we knew if we started a fight.....there was an adult who would finish it for us.

I moved here after high school. but # 2 would have been a riot.

don't you wish # 8 & #9 still applied?

[mamacash]

Everyday Belle, I see these kids and their parents who think "little Johnny or little Suzy" can do no wrong...when they are Hell on Wheels...If we acted like that growing up we would have never grown up!!!! I feel there is a true injustice to the public to think I want to see and hear your little brat act like a screaming monkey while I attempt to eat my lunch or dinner at some restaurant. These kids know their parents aren't going to do anything to them so they run around acting like the brats they are and Mama and Daddy are clueless.

[belle]

Everyday Belle, I see these kids and their parents who think "little Johnny or little Suzy" can do no wrong...when they are Hell on Wheels...If we acted like that growing up we would have never grown up!!!! I feel there is a true injustice to the public to think I want to see and hear your little brat act like a screaming monkey while I attempt to eat my lunch or dinner at some restaurant. These kids know their parents aren't going to do anything to them so they run around acting like the brats they are and Mama and Daddy are clueless.

I know. I was in a restaurant with mine as a small, colicky babe. I was so hungry, and she cried. this woman beside us just said, "I have had a terrible day, and such a head ache.."

my husband and I took turns, he first, bless him, walking her in the parking lot.

once they get older, there is no excuse, time to talk turkey to the kid about civilized behavior, and what is acceptable.

[mamacash]

There is a huge difference between a colicky baby and a 3 or 5 year old running around screaming ... if I had been in that restaurant with you that day I would have volunteered to hold the baby while you both ate, But you now you can't do that these days because someone would think I was trying o steal their baby or might have some disease.

[belle]

There is a huge difference between a colicky baby and a 3 or 5 year old running around screaming ... if I had been in that restaurant with you that day I would have volunteered to hold the baby while you both ate, But you now you can't do that these days because someone would think I was trying o steal their baby or might have some disease.

amen.

[natvrabit]

Guess you are from Chatham, when you could remember an organized celebration vs. a thunderstorm. Got some fireworks from nature at my house, but no hot dogs and other came with it

[Wahoo]

Rmember the cold winter specials at the Drive Inn. Those were the days . How about during the summer on wednesday night when you had car load night for $2.00 a car load? We would pop a trash bag full of pop corn and a cooler of cokes.  Everybody from town would be at the Drive Inn.

[NC YIPPIE]

Funny to read all that, thanks for posting.

3. You already hate Briar Chapel.

That one made me laugh out loud. Their 'natural' advertising campaign is quite puke worthy. 

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