In 1996, SB&D owner Michael C. Randle wrote a humorous book titled, “You Might Be a Southern Economic Developer If. . .”
Here are 10 of the hundreds of items written from the book that will be a regular feature on SouthernBusiness.com:
- You might be a Southern economic developer if your first child’s first words were “Attention K-Mart shoppers!”
- You might be a Southern economic developer if your second child’s first words were Walmart’s “Save Money, Live Better” slogan.
- You might be a Southern economic developer if gunned-down doves occasionally fall in your office’s parking lot.
- You might be a Southern economic developer if your four-year-old daughter tells her kindergarten classmates that you make your living by driving around in the woods with the mayor and one other man.
- You might be a Southern economic developer if you never call for a wetlands assessment because you have discovered renting a back hoe is cheaper.
- You might be a Southern economic developer if your industrial site’s boundaries reference farm animals.
- You might be a Southern economic developer if you have ever cut-off the sleeves of a sport coat and worn it as a vest.
- You might be a Southern economic developer if you have ever worn that cut-off sport coat vest and cut the grass.
- You might be a Southern economic developer if you have ever cut your grass and found a car.
- You might be a Southern economic developer if you throw a beer can out the truck window and your wife shoots it!
