Things I Learned in the South - 2
 

If it grows, it’ll stick ya. If it crawls, it’ll bite cha...

...what?

Plants are spikey and hurty.

Animals are teethy and bitey.

I brushed up against a nettle plant once...felt like a thousand hornets had their way with my leg...for hours...but that wasn't in the south. Canada.

Everything was simpler than I thought. I thought the first one was a metaphor for penis. Couldn't figure out what the second part meant. Five a.m. thinking.

The penis metaphor also works. Southern boys are notoriously randy.

A friend of mine used to say if it bites, stings, or is poisonous, it grows in eastern North Carolina.