Stuck in a stereotype?

[ebwy]

people assume I'm stupid, because I'm overweight and don't use big words for the sake of it. The reality is that I qualified for mensa as a 13 year old (doing the test for adults, scored in the top 1%) but decided against joining because it looked boring. as for the words, why utilise an enlarged term when a diminutive will suffice?

 

[agnes_day]

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I dunno, you sound pretty fun to have around!
Ever pull the rubber band on the sink-nozzle thingie prank?

nope but when we were teenagers, i filled my husbands backpack full of adult magazines and then called the school and told them he had drugs in his backpack and that they needed to check, just to have him humiliated in the principals office when they found the magazines. i am amazed he didnt kill me for that one. oh i was mean back then!!!

 

[Kansaseq]

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OMG! Totally off-topic, but I just went to your webpage and laughed out loud. You poor thing!

And yea, the poultry thing is catching up with me at work. One of our er docs called me a lunatic when I showed off one of the cool hen-saddles I got from lovemychix. He also said that when I'm home alone with the chickens, I probably walk and cluck like one, too. Don't worry, I threw an empty bottle at him (plastic)

 

[chickensioux]

Most people look at me as a prim, proper "girly, girl". I've been told "you're so.....put together." ????? In truth, I grew up the tom boy of the neighborhood. Taught my older brother how to climb a tree and ride a bike. I'm the one that caught the snakes, frogs, bugs. I'm a great Mom for my boys. Playing in the dirt with cars and trucks is alot more comfortable to me than playing with dolls. People are always surprised that I have chickens, ducks, etc. No one would ever believe that the dirt under my fingernails is probably poop.

 

[michickenwrangler]

I taught last year at a small town in southern Michigan, near the Ohio border. For the last 12 years, I have been living in northern Michigan and I had to adopt to the culture of "the south." We cheer for Green Bay in the north, they cheer for Cleveland Browns in the south (who really cheers for the Lions anymore?). I was very surprised that in this rural area, they HAD school on the opening day of deer season. No one up north goes to school on the opening day of deer season!!! Whaddaya mean you don't drive snow machines to school? Tip-up, it's an ice-fishing thing.

Finally, one student got fed up and said, "We're not the crazy Yooper schools you were at before!" After that, I was always referred to as the "crazy Yooper teacher." This was not helped when I confirmed that there was indeed a university with the initials FU ... Finlandia University. Another student wore a t-shirt to school and everyone (incl. admin.) thought it was made up. I had to explain that it wasn't.

Boy did I have fun when explaining dialects, I got to speak all class as a "Yooper"

 

[Camelot Farms]

I am a NYer who voluntarily transplanted to Southwest Virginia. The minute I opened my mouth I was in trouble...lol.
Being a Yankee is bad enough but a NY Yankee!

And of course every NYer is from The Big Apple. So try to convince people that you didnt live in a 6000.00 a month flat just off Central Park and that you arent snooty and 'too big for your britches'.

Imagine their surprise to find out that at the end of the work day I traded in my work duds for some jeans, boots and tshirt and headed to the barn to muck out a stall or two.

It took ages before I was just 'Kim'...not 'Kim....she's from NY' said as though to excuse my behavior....

 

[Mandalina]

Most people avoid me, wont make eye contact or openly stare then make a rude comment or two bc of my tattoos and piercings.But all my friends know I am not exactly a punk chick or something, I am pretty quiet and like to read and stay at home with my kids. Plus I am a NY'er relocated into MO, so people think I am nuts bc of that too LOL.

 

[Boyd]

well today, boyd lived up to part of the stereotype. He spent part of the day under the tractor, got it running again (short somewhere in electrical system) and was able to start using from about 10am. About 1ish I broke off and picked up couple foster daughters from school and took them to see the witch doctor. He said their heads were shrunk enough so I got out of there... Unfortunately I was wearing grease stained denim sporting the latest fashion up here in michigan... a farmers tan!

Got home and spent another couple hours mowing. Finally...... I can walk the property without waist high grass tickling me at the belt line

 

[saddina]

And that's why I wear dresses... 20 seconds to shuck out of one and slip on the next. Clumsy as I am there's something spilt daily (today was coffee).

 

[debilorrah]

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I was gonna correct your spelling, then I noticed you are in the UK. You guys use an "S" instead of a "Z" sometimes.