Talking Southern  --  Departing Quickly, Southern Style

Talking Southern  --  Departing Quickly, Southern Style

Southerners tend to be a languid people: we move slowly, talk slowly, and generally take our time about things in effort to savor the ever-lapsing, never-to-be-replaced moments of our lives.  Because we tend to have little experience in doing things quickly, suddenly, or perhaps surprisingly, we have an expression that helps us to express when things do go faster than we expected them to.  In trying to think of specific examples of this expressi…