Maggie, I'm still chuckling over that. In our own quiet, laid back way we manage to accomplish a great deal!
Don't you love to see the misperceptions some "Others" have of true Southerners?!
They equate 'slower speech' with 'slow minds' and have no idea how we laugh over that.
We're kinda like tigers or lions lazing in the warm sun, evoking a smile from the onlookers.
Prod us with a stick, though, and we become their worst nightmare - LOL - but in THE most CIVIL of ways, doncha know...:))
(We just don't need to 'prove ourselves' all the time...)
We wimmin are sometimes acused of having iron hands in velvet gloves --- soft and pliable ordinarily, but don't try to fool or mess with us...