Speaka de English already!

Oh but the chuckles a day can provide! I just overheard a co-worker, who was speaking to a customer over the phone, utter the following phrase:

"Bein's that it's already past the coverage time of bein' out of warranty"...

Yes...that was the funny part. First of all, the made up word "bein's" was terrifically funny and second, the fact that he basically said the same thing twice struck me as well. I couldn't get the image of Jeff Foxworthy out of my head and it was all I could do to keep from running over to his desk with a spittoon for the chaw in his mouth and ask for some redneck jokes (no, he isn't really chewing tobacco...it was just a vision my overactive/underutilized brain conjured up)!

It just made me wonder where all of these words come from. That's not the first time I've heard it, but not by someone who is just 10 years older than myself! Perhaps he was just trying to talk down to the truck driver? No offense to any highly intelligent truck drivers out there (What?!...there could be a few).

Boy...am I ever ready to get this Journalism thing going! LOL, that was a good laugh.