that's my ninja way or whatever

- The cicadas scream when the sun rises, they scream when the sun sets, the cicadas never stop screaming

- Don’t take the tourists pictures at Disney World, no matter how still you hold the camera all of the pictures come out blurry and distorted anyway

- The antique store off of I-75 holds more than just antiques, don’t go onto the second floor, the clerk’s eyes were a different color when you left

- The orange groves are fine during the day, but leave before sunset, your friends and family won’t find you in the morning

- If you walk up to a lit pool late at night you’ll see hundreds of frogs jump into the water at once, don’t try to save them, you’ll get pulled in too

- You check the thermostat every day at noon, it reads 104F today, just like it did yesterday, and every day before it, though, it always feels like it’s 120F

-It’s raining in the front yard, you look out the back window, the sun is shining through it without a rain drop in site

- If you see the gators start to back into the mangroves, leave the area immediately, they’re hiding from more than just the harsh sun

- You ask the clerk at the publix deli if there’s a secret to their fried chicken, he just laughs and brushes it off but you could swear he seemed a little nervous after asking him that, this happens at least once a week

- The farther north you get the more further south you get, the landscape remains flat no matter how far you drive

- You can take shells and sea glass off the beach, but beware things washed ashore from sunken ships

- Mrs. Barbara has always lived across the street for as long as you remember, she has always looked as old as time for as long as you remember, she knew the family who lived in the house before you, and the one before that, and the one before that, and the one before

- You hear loud wailing sounds not far from the dock, you tell yourself it’s just the Sandhills, it’s just the cranes