So far in Oklahoma
19 July 2008 02:16![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
juldeaMy mom has said a sentence that included the phrase, "...you know how black people are..." I actually corrected that one! "I think your stereotype is actually more of a class stereotype than a race stereotype, mom." She immediately went on the explanatory defensive of how she wasn't of course making a racial statement. (The situation described involved how my mom is spending time and money to feed and befriend-in-order-to-trap-and-take-to-the-vet a stray dog who's been living on the streets in a VERY rural and apparently mostly black neighborhood that's on the way between my mom's house and the barn where she stables her horses. The folks 'round those parts seem to not care enough about the dog to save it from starvation and pain, which I can definitely see being a factor of the fact that not all of them have my mother's resources of money and spare time to care for a random stray dog who might just need to be put down anyway. Somehow this turned into a factor of their skin color, however. Sigh.)
Talk radio has involved a pundit forwarding the stupid theory of Barack Obama accidentally saying he visited 57 states because there are 57 MUSLIM STATES OMG HE'S A TERRORIST. (Read Snopes for the full story on this one, folks.)
Gas prices start with a 3. And sometimes the next digit is a 7.
I failed to remember that even though I have Sudafed in my system, if the Friday night mixer is held in a bar in Oklahoma, smoking is allowed indoors, and my sinuses will pay the price for this.
I am in the running for person who has traveled the furthest for the reunion. The one girl who might beat me, if she is in fact here? From British Columbia, these days. Is a pilot. Is married to a pilot. Has (unless there's a typo in the booklet) 2-year-old quintuplets. I kind of feel like I have to destroy her so that I may thrive.
Talk radio has involved a pundit forwarding the stupid theory of Barack Obama accidentally saying he visited 57 states because there are 57 MUSLIM STATES OMG HE'S A TERRORIST. (Read Snopes for the full story on this one, folks.)
Gas prices start with a 3. And sometimes the next digit is a 7.
I failed to remember that even though I have Sudafed in my system, if the Friday night mixer is held in a bar in Oklahoma, smoking is allowed indoors, and my sinuses will pay the price for this.
I am in the running for person who has traveled the furthest for the reunion. The one girl who might beat me, if she is in fact here? From British Columbia, these days. Is a pilot. Is married to a pilot. Has (unless there's a typo in the booklet) 2-year-old quintuplets. I kind of feel like I have to destroy her so that I may thrive.