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Originally Posted by JumpinJesus
Some years ago, I drove across country. I'm from San Francisco originally and was driving from there to Ohio to visit family. We stopped in Texas to get some Popeye's chicken. When I ordered my food, the cashier stared at me with this bizarre look on her face. Another cashier came over and did the same thing. When I asked if there was anything wrong, the first cashier giggled and said, "It's nothin'. Just that yew gahht a funneh acceyent."
I found it quite strange that she'd say that seeing as how I never thought of myself as having an accent.
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I'm also from California, and when my girlfriend and I traveled through Texas we found that people stared at us like we were from Mars until we learned how to say, "thuank yeeeeuw." She and I sat in a diner and practised saying it together. As soon as we had that down to a reasonable facsimile, we got much better treatment. I'm not sure how I figured out that was the magic unlocking key to Texas.