Stuff White People (apparently) Like
Posted on 02. Dec, 2009 by kchristieh in my life
For the second day in a row, I tried opening the wrong car in a parking lot. I’m not going senile; it’s just that my town is full of blue Priuses just like mine. I knew I was at the wrong car the first time when I saw that it had an Apple computer sticker. Although I have an iMac, I didn’t put the sticker on my car. The second car had a round, patterned sticker on the car. It matched the necklace I was wearing. So you can see how I’d be confused.
I like to think of myself as unique, and in some ways I think I am. I don’t know any other women in my town who have engineering degrees and run their own website design businesses. But that’s where my uniqueness apparently starts and ends. My mixed-race kids love reading the list of “Stuff White People Like” and laughing when almost all of it applies to me. They’re right: I like 106 of the 129 items on the list. There are 16 I don’t like, and 7 I’m not familiar enough with to form an opinion.
I’m not going to detail which things I like and don’t like. You’ll have to figure that out by reading my blog. But let’s just say that in the first paragraph of this post, without even knowing it at the time, I mentioned my Prius (#60), bumper stickers (#100) and Apple products (#40).
Maybe the writers of the list have hidden cameras in my house.
Alright, Kathy, I guess you are more white than me! :) There are 38 things on the list I don’t like or don’t have an opinion on.