Greetings

Returned from Boston yesterday afternoon. It took till lunchtime today before I felt home. While retrieving my chicken fillet combination I was greeted with an smile and:

How are you today punkin?

This is close to the more musical:

What would you like for lunch today, shoougga?

Which reminds me, surely this is regional quaintness:

Long story short.

Which translated means "getting to the point", in negotiation this is a statement qualifier, whatever comes after means the opposite. This is a statement that Yankee's make after they've already given you the long story. Effectively, you get both the long and short versions of the story.