“Heard my mother was defending my honor,” I say dryly. “I have never heard so many insults strung together in one sentence. Also, what the fuck does ‘I’m gonna show you how the cow ate the cabbage’ mean?” I giggle at his attempt to mimic my mother’s thick accent. “It means you’re about to hear the hard truth.” “Oh,” he says, seemingly still confused. “You southerners are strange.”
