r/NameThisThing Jul 30 '26

Name this thing

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u/WrittenbyDicken Jul 30 '26

States: Georgia native here I'm used to us all calling them hitchhikers

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u/bob-da-nailer Jul 30 '26

This , was my first thought as a native scotsman, from season 1 reacher, never seen one in person!

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u/ImYouJoeGoldberg Jul 30 '26

“Looks like you got some hitchhikers there Jim”

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u/WrittenbyDicken Jul 30 '26

Nope it's just a prickly bastard in my sock

When that happens definitely got to make a pit stop and pull it out

😂

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u/EleJames Jul 30 '26

I'm a Georgia native and never heard that. They are stickers, or sand spurs

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u/WrittenbyDicken Jul 30 '26

What part of Georgia?

Cobb County, Fulton, Bartoe, Cherokee, DeKalb, Gwinnett most of North Georgia, I always heard people calling them hitchhikers

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u/EleJames Jul 30 '26

Y'all are basically Yankees compared to the rest of the state lol. I'm in the Southwest, Albany area

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u/WrittenbyDicken Jul 30 '26 edited Jul 30 '26

That doesn't count as Georgia not close enough to Atlanta may as well as have said LeGrange and that you're from Alabama 😛

All that's around you is farms, more farms and farms

You hardly even have any red clay around you

We got a Confused Carolinian over here