Originally Posted by
Bostondevil
The family joined up with my husband in the Summer of 2015 at the end of a conference he had at the University of Warwick (located in Coventry, it's named for Warkwickshire, the county, and not Warwick, the city). We spent another 10 days traveling around Warwickshire and the Cotswolds. One afternoon, waiting for dinner service to open, we found a pub that served a limited menu of snacks in the afternoon. It's not really a small world story, because we didn't know the young couple already, but, we did manage to sit down next to an American couple and their baby in a pub in Stow on the Wold. Upon hearing the accents, we struck up a conversation. At some point, the young man asked my husband what he did. Physics professor. Where? Harvard. And the young man shook the hubby's hand. I said to my sons, "See, I told you so, your dad IS impressive to other people."
It was later on this same trip that the infamous "Mom had too much wine" incident occurred. I think I told that story before. I had determined that I was going to finish one glass of wine, darn it, and the waiter kept refilling my glass before I could empty it. I didn't do anything embarrassing, unless you are my children and are not used to the Southern accent coming out in full force. I never attempted to lose my accent and I have some friends up here who tell me that I haven't actually lost it, but I have just as many who look at me when I say I'm from NC and wonder where the accent went. I have three responses to the remark, "You don't have a Southern accent." 1) Yes, but I have INsurance. 2) Just give me 3 glasses of wine. 3) Wait until I call my mother.
