When a Redneck and a Yankee Meet

Mia Hayes
5 min readJun 29, 2022

A conversation with my POD delivery driver

Photo: Quintin Gellar; Pexels

Loretta‘s thick Virginia accent spills from my car’s speakers. “I’m down in Manassess,” she says. “I’m trying to find your house on the GPS, but it’s not coming up.”

I’m standing outside my father-in-law’s new house in 90-degree heat and tell her to drive to the developer’s model home. “If you call me when you get there, I can guide you…

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Mia Hayes

40-something trying to live several lifetimes at once. Stay-at-home author, mom, and wife.