Tell me about the assumptions people make about you based solely on where you're from.

I went to Lansing, MI to visit a friend. At a party, there was randomly a coconut. Someone was like HEY GET THE GIRL FROM MIAMI TO OPEN IT. THEY EAT COCONUTS ALL THE TIME.

Yeah, cos we're crazy islanders who eat raw coconuts straight from the trees.

That I'm a super-preppy, hyperaggressive asshole.

skanko -- he was the biggest asshole. I don't remember exactly what he said to me, but he said something so rude to me (about why i was at the party if i didnt know anyone -- my friend threw the party in my honor.) that I actually fucking LEFT with another of her friends and went to Ann Arbor to watch Dirty Dancing at U of M.

That I'm rich, blonde, stuckup, superficial, fake, tan, conservative, braindead, spoiled...

People assume that cos I'm from Miami, that I know all these celebrities and party on South Beach every night.

The only celebrity I've met is Peter North....

This is SUPER old school but when my mom moved back to NYC from Puerto Rico, people asked her if she wore grass skirts and stuff back in PR.

well since I am from South Dakota people assume I am from North Dakota since 90% of these people have no clue that they aren't the same thing. WE HAVEN'T BEEN A TERRITORY FOR OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS, IDIOTS!

People have no idea that Miami is an actual CITY. That people LIVE in. and WORK in. wtffff.

They also assume we're all old and don't know how to vote.

@ginger: I didn't think it was but for some reason everyone kept bringing up "oh did you have cars in Arkansas?! Huhhhhhhhhsh hahahah, you probably didnt' have cars"

Fuckin' A. Thats when I point out California's wonderful public schooling system and their drop out rate? 'Please sir, can you tell me where Arkansas ranks on the public school system?'

*cricket chirps*

And if that doesn't do the trick I fucking punch them.

No one says anything when I tell them I'm from Oakland... oh except that I must be dodging bullets all the time and my cars been stolen at least 100 times. When I generalize and say 'The Bay Area' I'm then either a hippie, beach bum, or completely conceited and full of myself.

I don't get it.

Though last weeks 'This American Life' was pretty good, they were talkin' about stereotypes there. Wait.. was it TAL or... was it the Moth? Either way.... topical

that i rode a horse to school, that i live in the middle of the mountains, that all the roads are dirt, that i give a damn about john elway.

I admit, when I moved to Florida from Arkansas, I just told everyone I was from Oklahoma, because that's where I was born and for some reason there was less assumption I was missing teeth, playing banjo and practically retarded.

This is weird. I would never make those assumptions about Colorado. Or Arkansas, really.

i'm from Nashville, TN

oh, and that the southern accent in Nashville sounds like the southwestern accent in Texas- they are SO DIFFERENT- same with GA, really different
the alabama accent is to the georgia the same way the sydney accent is to the london one
oh man, and the Savannah accent- gorgeous.

if you take the ky accent not from the hills and make it a little softer, and you get the middle tn accent- the east tn accent is a lot like the ky hills accent
memphis= blues
duh

That I eat grits.

Colorado is one of those 'vanilla' states... nothing really do say about them...

So perhaps stereotypes are stronger the closer you are to a border or ocean?

@centro- OH YEA- that one too- i eat cream of wheat, but didn't try it until like, a few months ago.

i don't know if I've ever eaten grits...

I don't know, man. I think the assumption I make about most places is that they're big cities like Miami. I guess cos that's what I'm used to.

@ginger: then I'm curious. what is your assumption about me?

That I'm fashion backwards and I love football.

omg- the dog whisperer is doing an episode in costa mesa right now- it's a rerun though.
it's a dingo-aussi shepherd mix

awwwwww. she's scared of the vet.

I USED TO LIVE IN COSTA MESA! I saw an episode of Cops in Costa Mesa once, I was so proud!

@h55, I assume New York people are rude, arrogant, assholes that ride in taxi cabs every where they go and kick pigeons and eat Chinese take-out or big sloppy slices of pizza every night. I basically assume you are the East Coast elitist version of Seinfeld!

and I have 6 wives, and horns, oh yeah, the horns. Actually I was raised Mormon but have fallen into the din of iniquity over the last few years. I did have a roommate that had left the polygamist compound on the Utah/Arizona border because he refused to follow their ways.

when i think of miami i think of Terri from Reno 911, SOUTH BETCH

In Texas: "You're from California? Queer."
In California: "You're from Texas? Hick."

The joys of divorce and joint custody.

Man, aren't summers spent in Texas the worst?

DIDNT YOU DO THAT?

Summers in Waco. Oy.

I don't think I have an accent. My mom is like OMG YOU'RE SO CUBAMIIIII. and I am like SHUT UP OR I'LL PUT YOU IN A HOME.

@sven - i only assumed you knew rick ross b/c you worked at the port, not b/c you were from miiiiami.