Park a wheel barrow full of some high octane herb in front of him... lets see how crazy the Madder Hatter can really get.
By Louisiana standards, you're WAY ahead of the curve. There are some posters only learning that NOW as they read it.
Yeh same here, pronounced it like that all of my life until I had a "helper" job working for a roofing crew when I was around 15/16 or so ( picking up debris and sheet metal screws)... dude fired me for constantly calling it a wheel barrel. It's actually wheelbarrow though, one word.
I thought it was wheel barrel until I was @ LSU and had to read the ridiculous poem, "The Red Wheelbarrow," by William Carlos Williams. The only thing more ridiculous than the poem was the 45-minute discussion of the meaning of the poem. "So much depends upon/A red wheelbarrow/Glazed with rainwater/Beside the white chickens." That was it. 45 freakin' minutes.