It was respectful but I guess he couldn’t help laughing at my naivete! Today, I can’t help laughing at myself either!
Actually, I was being sarcastic. That kind of disrespect in a public “servant” is inexcusable.
I’m with you on the Florida thing. I’ve been here since the early eighties. Originally, I’m from Delaware, right across the Delaware River from Tom’s River, NJ.
I told my wife when we got married “you will never get me any further north than Atlanta.”