Southern Humor of the Genteel Kind

Some good southern humor from a friendly New Orleans native.

A very genteel Southern lady was driving across the Savannah River Bridge in Georgia one day. As she neared the top of the bridge, she noticed a young man fixen {getting ready} to jump.

She stopped her car, rolled down the window and said, “Please, don’t jump; think of your dear mother and father.”

He replied, “Mom and Dad are both dead; I’m going to jump.”

She said, “Well, think of your wife and children.”

He replied, “I’m not married and I don’t have any kids.”

She said, “Well, think of Robert E. Lee”

He replied, “Who’s Robert E. Lee?”

She replied, “Well, bless your heart, just go ahead and jump, you dumb-ass Yankee.”

B. John

B. John Masters writes about democracy, moral responsibility, and everyday Stoicism at deep.mastersfamily.org. A lifelong United Methodist committed to social justice, he explores how faith, ethics, and civic life intersect—and how ordinary people can live out justice, mercy, and truth in public life. A records and information management expert, Masters has lived in the Piedmont,NC, Dayton, OH, Greensboro, NC and Tampa, FL, and is a proud Appalachian State Alum.