What things do people ASSUME you like...

[MickeyMomOfThree]

...something because of what you are and look like???

1: I don't LIKE TYLER PERRY'S MOVIES!!!!! Don't assume I do because I'm Black and live in Atlanta!!!! ... and I don't know the Housewives of Atlanta or care to!

2: I don't like shoes because I'm female. Don't start a conversation about them around me!! I also don't like manicures, spas and tea parties!!
3: For my son: He's 6 feet tall and weighs 275 and NO, he does NOT play football!!! He said if he had a dime for everytime he's asked he'd be a MILLIONAIRE!!

Your turn.....

I agree with all the bolded, well, mostly. I hate shoes. It doesn't help that I wear an 11 wide and my DH is already 4 inches shorter then me so anything with a heel is out. I just don't get the love of shoes though. I never pay more then MAYBE $2o at Payless for them and only buy when I really need them.
I had ONE manicure as a free gift. It did nothing for me and would never waste money on one. Never been to a spa but hate the idea of strangers rubbing me. I do love a good tea party with my girls though, but they are getting bigger and don't ask to have them often anymore, but for me it was fun with them but never would actually go to one (again, I'm too cheap for that.) My idea of a tea party involves cookies we just baked and tea with my girls on their little tea set they got at disney years ago.

Oh, and I am 6'1" and have been since I was like 10 years old. If I had a nickle for every time I heard "you should play basketball" I'd be pretty rich too! But, personality wise I was a cheerleader, and boy did I stick out on my squad.


For me, I gained weight due to medications. It bothers me because I have tried to be a healthy person. I love veggies and eat them as snacks, exercise several times a week, but I have been having a very hard time loosing the weight. I have reunited with old friends from high school on Facebook and I am sure they look at me like I let myself go, but they don't know what I went through, how in the end I needed surgery and will need more again. I hate it because I know what I used to look like and feel like, and it bothers me.

Also, I hate the idea that SAHMs are lazy. I have been one for almost 16 yers and I swear if one more person asks me what I do all day... UGGG!!!


And I hate coffee too, I try and try and can't do it, but would love the mid-day boost!

 

[disykat]

Like others, people assume because I'm female I like to shop. I also don't want gifts of candles, lotion, perfume, flowers,etc. What a waste of money!

People also assume because I'm fairly conservative, took my husband's name, SAHM, etc. that I'm very traditional. People were quite surprised at my wedding because I didn't do a lot of the traditions because I thought they were too sexist.

 

[laurafergie]

I'm an English teacher and I really dislike a lot of the "dead white guys" of literature. I swear some people think it's almost blasphemy!

Thank you! I am a bookseller, I hate "the dead white guys". Go figure. I'm a female and most people are surprised when they find out I specialize in Military History.

ETA: I do love me a good romance novel though.

Also - and because I'm self-employed, I am one of those middle class Americans that do NOT have health insurance. (I have a savings account though) For some reason, 9 times out of 10, I am treated like poor white trash when I go to the doctor or I take my kids. - In fact, I fired my OBGYN because of this. Loved him - HATED his office staff.

 

[castmemberb4]

Firedancer: Is that you in your signature pic? I think you look like Kasey Kahne, don't people ask if you're a NASCAR driver?

Pooh 67-68: You are my hero my goal in life is to be a stay at home wife. Could you talk to my DH????

Pepperflake14: Don't know where you live but we could be best friends.
I am who I am take me or leave me, I get the same impression from you.

I'm from the South and have to ask for UNsweet tea.

I'm a NASCAR fan with a college education, a good job, and good taste in fashion, food, wine, beer...... just dosen't compute for most people.

Worst of all DHs Michigan relatives assume that being from the South I'm a redneck, I am NOT.
That word actually originated to describe Michiganders who came South to work as field hands, their untanned necks would burn, thus rednecks.

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

I thought of another. We have 3 daughters. People assume we were trying for a son. UGGG, they can think it, but when they choose to say it in front of my girls. I hate that. First, no, we planned to have 2 kids, boys or girls, and had a surprise 3rd one, but never was it try and try till we have a boy. it was have healthy kids and that is what we had.

 

[Katie's Butterflies]

Wow, are you ME????

Geez - or are you me??

 

[Handbag Lady]

1. That because I enjoy travel, I enjoy foreign foods. I am the queen of picky eating.

2. That I am into shoes. I am not. I wear Payless or my ONE PAIR of expensive shoes (Ugg Cardies ). I am into Handbags.

3. That because I like Handbags, I must have the latest by _______. I do not. I really enjoy collecting mid-century bags and some nice Coach ones. I don't own any Louis Vuitton and I'm sure I'm spelling that wrong!

 

[MushyMushy]

I'm an English teacher and I really dislike a lot of the "dead white guys" of literature. I swear some people think it's almost blasphemy!

Thank you! Same here! And I'm also not the biggest Shakespeare fan, although I do see the value in his works and get his contribution to the English language.

I prefer contemporary literature, young adult lit, women writers, etc.

 

[bumbershoot]

I hate whipped cream (apparently I am they only one who does)

DH officially doesn't like whipped cream, but the truth is, he just doesn't like fake whipped cream. Because when I make it from organic cream with a bit of sugar and vanilla, he loves it!



People assume, from my looks alone (b/c I don't talk about my views), that I'm a raving, raging liberal. I might have long hair that I let alone, I might not straighten it, I might currently disdain the use of shavers, I might appear all these ways...but I have FAR more complicated political beliefs than any one name can hold. And if people would just ASK me, they could find out, but they just go on assuming stuff! Then again, I probably wouldn't talk about it anyway, b/c even my brother just wants a "sound bite" from me, not an in depth, hours long, conversation.




Oh, and sorry to the hard-working, non-lazy SAHPs out there...I might not eat bon bons, but apart from DS's classes at the YMCA, we're very lazy around here.

And DH helps to further the "vegetarians eat fish" thing. Though he rarely eats fish around anyone we know, just b/c it's too complicated for them to understand that he has morals and values and health issues that make vegetarianism very healthy for him, BUT occasionally he feels that he will kill and eat a cow, if he doesn't get some fish...and he chooses the fish option.

 

[FoundMyPrince]

People assume that I'm Irish since I (and my three children) have red hair. Cannot find an Irish soul in my geneology.

 

[iwrbnd]

Oops, messed up on this one!

 

[DaParkers]

I hate it when people (mostly white men) jokingly give me one of those idiotic long drawn out handshakes that includes snapping fingers, a man hug, and a back slap. I assume they think it's ok since I'm black. That actually happened to me in WDW too, with a character (I forget which one). Also, I don't drink, so assuming that I'm just being nice and therefore constantly trying to get me to "Have a beer" is extremely disturbing to say the least.

P.S. I DO like Tyler Perry movies, but mostly because we're both from New Orleans.

 

[PolyndianPrincessJes]

I don't care that your great great great great great grandmother was a real Cherokee Indian princess.

I don't do rain dances.

I don't want to discuss the great injustices against my people.

We do own a tipi, but I don't live in it.

We do own horses, but we don't ride them to school/work.


On my other side...

I don't know the Rock (or any Samoan football players).

I don't have a grass skirt wardrobe.

I don't eat anything that bald guy ate on that Samoan episode of his show (I can't remember the show, but I got a lot of questions after it aired).

I do know how to hula, and the Polynesian is our Disney home.

 

[FireDancer]

Firedancer: Is that you in your signature pic? I think you look like Kasey Kahne, don't people ask if you're a NASCAR driver?

That is me.

I have never been asked if I am a NASCAR driver but I have been asked if I have ever been the host of Blues Clues. I have not, but I will accept any residual checks.

 

[crazelion]

Let's see:

I don't like grocery shopping, just because 5'0 nothing that I can't play basketball , hate cooking, coffee,.

Because I look like a half-breed please don't ask my race because I don't know. I am list as black. That is my answer and I sticking to it. Yes this my real hair and not it not horse hair. Just because I wear cornrows in my head I not from Africa. It is easier to keep up that way.

Just because I am black. I don't have bunch of bay bay kids.

Just because I teach does not mean I like kids. It was a job that I got hire for. I was hire to be the computer teacher and not pre-K cut slack.

I cannot stay coffee do not ask me if want.

I love anime, cartoon. Please do not ask like spod bob square pants. I can't stand the show.

I don't like any kind of perfume, fashion, lotion at all. If buy to give to me it be re-gift for a Christmas present.

I can't stand dress clothes. I blue jean and T-shirt kind girl.

I love sports.

 

[lillygator]

I am a woman and I DO NOT LIKE CHOCOLATE....please quit trying. I also think coffee is for grown ups, it smells and its gross. I love football yet am very much a girly girl.

 

[lillygator]

Let's see:



Just because I teach does not mean I like kids. It was a job that I got hire for. I was hire to be the computer teacher and not pre-K cut slack.

that is very scary.

Thankfully it was not English.

 

[Shelton123]

that is very scary.

Thankfully it was not English.

OMG LOL.

People think I don't like hip hop because I'm white, and then when I say that I do (not my favorite, but I like quite a bit of it) they think I want to be black... since when was hip hop specially reserved for black people? Same goes for anything for any race. It's a shame people can't just like whatever they want to like.

 

[olena]

1.) College football and NASCAR are Southern staples and bore me to tears!

2.) I'm a classically trained, experienced Soprano that gets a lot of major works' solos, belongs to a select choir, has sung at Carnegie Hall twice and trains others in voice. I LOVE to sing! It's my art and passion. People assume I follow American Idol or have great ambition to audition. Not a chance.

 

[2Eskiedogs]

1. I had a lady run up to me at the postoffice to ask me when I was due?
Sorry not pregnant, just chubby.

2. I don't enjoy romance novels.

3. Just because I'm a SAHM does not mean that I have nothing to do at all
during the day. I hear it all the time, mostly from my in-laws, you
have the time, you have nothing to do during the day.

4. That we are rolling in the dough, because my boys go to a private
school. They never heard of financial assistance?

5. Clothes shopping. Don't see the point of spending all day in the mall
I would rather get what I need and leave.