Why be sorry? I think most of us appreciate your yankeeness....and your sense of humor about it.
Speaking of which....we are having fun with our class yankee. She is just such a....yankee. Hehehehe....but she's a good sport. Actually, there's another one (from Indiana). She's having a hard time accepting the prevalence of guns in Ozark households. She's also the most politically correct of the lot, so I rather enjoy rattling her cage. She was a lawyer before becoming a caseworker. The other non-southerner in the class is from California. That about says it all.
Yea .... I've noticed ... *L*
What can I say .. except what my mother use to say .. You can take the girl out of the city, but you can't take the city out of the girl
As for you PC friend at work .. that's not a yankee thingy .. that's a Liberal thingy .. be kind to her, it's a big culture change for her