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When we take the kids to the store, or out in general, I've noticed that we are getting looks even before we open our mouths and the locals hear our "accent" (or lack of one to my ear.)

I think it has to do with rings, or rather the lack of them.

One of my wife's small side diamonds got loose from the setting just before we moved, and as it now snags like a grappling hook, she has stopped wearing it.

The day before we moved, my wedding ring cracked and broke clean through while I was lifting boxes and whatnot.

Since the crack was pinching the meat of my finger when it would flex open and then closed, I also removed my ring.

So, here we are, a guy and a girl with two kids out shopping for household stuff, and no rings.

Panties have become bunched to say the least, and disapprovals have been glared.

Also today at the grocer, a national chain by the way and not a local mom and pop store, I saw that the condoms were located behind a locked glass display case in the pharmacy.

Message:  no casual sex allowed without the tacit approval and or counseling from an authority figure.  Consult with pharmacist before engaging in protected sex.  Then you can get the snickering grin from the cashier on the way out for the cherry on top.

The Millionaire had a similar account from his last trip to the area.  In a Wal-Mart, a zealot was stalking the cosmetics aisle handing out pamphlets to all the girls/women passing through telling them that make-up was only for whores and that they were all going to hell for painting their faces like Jezebels.

The Millionaire ushered his two teen daughters away from the zealot and brought the scene to the attention of the manager on the way out of the store. 

Upon which he was informed, by the manager, that the zealot was named Earl and that he was in the store as often as he could make it, praise the lord, whenever he wasn't at work or sleeping, doing the lord's work.  Trying to spread the message for the kingdom and keep women from a wrong path on that aisle.

Welcome to the buckle of the "bible belt".