Smith Talk

Do you ever find yourself saying the same things all the time? I get stuck in these ruts (mostly due to laziness) where I don't ever come up with anything clever to say. It's just so hard to know what to say when somebody asks if you want milk or something like that. I have a few "regulars" packed away, and you can count on me pulling one out pretty much anytime you say anything to me, whether it makes sense or not. Well, this is how the conversation has been around our house for the past 4 or 5 months...literally. I don't think Tanner and I talk to each other for longer than 3 minutes before one of these classic lines come out. Here are just a few of our favs:

(All said in a southern accent)

"I love ya more than my luggage."
"What is this in my Frigidaire?"
"I'd rather eat dirt!"
"Don't talk about me like I'm not here!"
"Have your roots done."
"If it had hair it'd be a St. Bernard."
"He wants you to open...open your eyes."
"I know now that I was suffering from premenstrual syndrome."

If you're a cool person at all, you'll recognize these as lines from the one and only classic "Steel Magnolias." And if you think I'm the one that usually spouts these out, you're wrong! Most of them come from the mouth of the #1 "Steel Magnolias" fan, my husband. So really, if you find yourself running out of absolutely hilarious things to say, just use a line from Steel Magnolias and you're sure to be declared a good conversationalist...like us. It's the way lazy people live.

A TRIBUTE TO THE GREATEST
Sir Robert Harling
(writer of Steel Magnolias)