Words you hate hearing

Referring to a numbered freeway/highway with “the.” Yeah I’m looking at you all So Cal people. Yes I know why you do it. Yes I know the history.

I-5 works just as well. There is no other 5. You don’t need the. To get to Sacramento I drive 101 North to 680. Normally I take 84 to Livermore but there’s been construction so I go straight to 580 until I catch 5. Mom lives off of I-80, so that’s the way I go. I’ll take 80 home through Bencia. It’s faster and there’s no toll going south on the bridge.

And not once in that whole story did I need “the” to say which freeway I was on and it made sense and flowed better.

 

"LeBron was on fire tonight!
He exploded for 57 points!"

RIP, dawg. At least you went out with a BANG.

 

I admit having a good laugh last year when an announcer said the name of Diamondbacks reliever Brandon Pfaadt. He said, "His name is not pronounced like a rude, bodily noise ... unless you're from Boston."

 

We have some new neighbors from Kentucky, and our dogs get along great. One day one of the neighbor's dogs was rolling back and forth on his back, as happy dogs do. Neighbor says, "You just love wallerin' around, don't you?"

I hadn't heard "wallerin'" since my grandmother scolded us kids for wallerin' on the bed more than a half century ago.

 

I’m sorry, you and your siblings all wallered on the bed? Can you translate that to Yankee because without context it sounds like your grandma had quite the mess to clean (and a lot of sheets to wash) …

 

Sort of scrunching up and burrowing in to get cozy. Can also mean just being lazy and not wanting to move from a spot someone wants you out of.

 

I grew up in the Bay Area where - I'm guessing its something traffic reporters started doing and everyone picked up on it. I've never heard the "the" used anywhere else but SoCal. I do wonder how far north it goes before people just call it I-5 or 101. Do they do it in San Diego?

 

Shoot I think I knew that. I’m wracking my brain, I think there’s a song that has a lyric to the effect of wallerin’ away the hours. But for the life of me, I can’t think of the song.

 

I know instantly you’re from So Cal when I hear it. I’ve heard it as far north as Bakersfield. I had a professor from San Diego tell me it was making it’s way down there.

 

Yeah, I'm a born and raised SoCal. It is the 405 ... but it is not The Ohio State University.

 

You from St. Louis, you hoosier?