Michael - I'm, no doubt, a Southerner.  I could just imagine you in the
Smokies, raising hell about whatever, and one of the locals making just
such a comment!  Hell, I was in Maine, once, and, after telling the gas
station dude to check the "oil" four times, without his understanding
what I was asking, I had to spell "O-I-L" and, then, he understood!
Only Yankees can make "OIL" a THREE SYLLABLE WORD!

BOB