My Daddy was a coal miner, which makes me a "coal-cracker"
You knew you were a coal-cracker when the waitress asked, "Do youse want smoking or non-smoking?"  That's changed now with the no-smoking laws, but she can still ask if youse want menus or if youse want the buffet!
I love my hometown, and sometimes I say "youse" or "hain't," too, because this is how we are.
And btw, to get a coal-cracker's attention, you just say, "Ho-But!"  Try it, it works, at least in my hometown.

Rhonda Galizia sponsored a page of my works on her amazing website, "He Writes The Words On My Heart," which, sadly, is going offline soon.
Poems published in 2 anthologies, supposedly. I didn't buy them so I'll never know for sure.

Additional poems are posted at skywriting.net My poems of inspiration, friendship and/or humor are placed in racks in 7 locations in Shamokin, Pa, the Art Gallery and the Auditorium of the Arts and Career Center; Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy, Olcese Pharmacy, Podiatrist Dr. Richard Albright's office; Miller Family Health Center; and the "Making Waves" Beauty Salon. So far, the Medicine Shoppe has been the most active, with most of the 150 poems I place there monthly being taken. The poems are written by myself and also include the poetry of Connie Hinnen Cook. It's called "Mustard Seed Ministries" and it was started by Connie Cook; its chief encourager is her husband Guy Cook, who encouraged me to take up the mantle (after CHC passed away) and print multiple copies of "The Two Connies'" poetry for free use. In case any fellow writers on AD have wondered, the work involved in Mustard Seed Ministries is largely the reason why I don't read and comment on your works more often. Hope you don't mind!