Thing White People Do That Make No Sense

Some things White people do that make no sense: camp, allowances, and that game with the ball on the string. #smartypants #dropout #presentation

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[saxonman]

Secret is that they teach us teatherball at summer camp. Babysitters also double as camp counselors

[SeveralGhost]

As a secretly poor white kid I found this presentation relatable to my own life as well. Except tetherball, that was the oldest and most neglected part of our playground at elementary school. Thank you Carlos, very cool

[DiMagnolia]

Leaving the door unlocked all the time is another huge one in the suburbs, that’s so bonkers to me

[Claire-tkdo]

White person, lower middle class growing up, now middle middle:
Saying "I'm okay" when I break something: yes ✅ my parents would always be worried something in ME broke if they heard a clatter like that, so I assuage the worst concern first before we address the mess I made
Camp: twice ✅
Bike on the lawn: no ❌ in the garage
Allowances: kind of? A certain amount for certain chores ✔️
Unrelated babysitters: yes ✅ but pretty much always people we knew or related to someone we knew
Tetherball: once at a family reunion ✅

[impossiblyindecisive]

I say, "I'm ok, " to let them know I'm not having a seizure. I just broke something.

[ICLHStudio]

As a kid, I lived in North Dakota; where I'm pretty sure there was like, a negative crime rate or something. We would leave everything unlocked; the milkman would walk into the house and put the milk in the fridge (yes, we had a milkman, and this wasn't the 50s or anything, it was the 90s), and in the winter, everyone would quickly run out like an hour before they had to leave for work or school to start their cars, just leave them running, and go back inside while the cars warmed up (even if you had no garage and the car was just out on the street). I mean, sure, anyone could have just come along and driven off with them, but it was like -50 on a warm morning, so that wasn't actually a real concern.

[BandileNzimande]

As a young black South African, I remember playing so much damn tetherball as a kid😂😂😂

[Hitman-]

Tetherball “is a part of my culture” 😂

[garyjaycat]

I'm a POC, but throughout my childhood I really wanted to just identify as white and not mixed race, so it's funny that the one thing I did experience on this list is tetherball lol

[kidsis]

BIMPOC here:
- I currently say ״I’m OK” if I drop something when my mom is home because otherwise she will worry I fell (I had a BKA this summer and I haven’t been fitted for a new leg yet).
- I went to church camp multiple times, but it was never for longer than a week.
- I got an allowance from the age of 14 to 18.
- Tetherball was a staple of my elementary school playground.

[megan]

Lolol, yeah, I was the reigning tetherball champ! Kids would line up to play me at tetherball, if I beat you, next in line, if I got beat, I'd have to let the next in line go. But I never got beat. When it came time to learn volleyball, the coach got excited, because I could serve like nobodies business, but then she found out I couldn't play the rest of the game to save my life. I could just hit a volleyball really freaking hard.

[MarcJaxon]

Ross is nodding and laughing in the whitest way possible....because it's all true.
There's a very specific way that white people say "I'm okay!" when in serious distress.
Camp is for suburban white people who want to get rid of their kids for 10 weeks...
Bike on the lawn was for emergencies only where I grew up, and there were other kids there.
Allowances didn't exist in my house for more than a couple weeks. We didn't have extra money. But still a real thing.
I babysat kids when I was 11.
Tetherball is amazing if you're serving.
Had em at every Elementary School.
Also, having a pool is very white.

[TheSilverEgg]

The “im okay” thing comes instinctually to me. I don’t even know why I do it

[lemoncholly]

Half of these are just the results of a high trust society.

[Artofcarissa]

I was always jealous of kids who had tvs in their own room, I think that’s more a rich person thing than a whiten person thing 😂😂

[jonathanflores]

As a Mexican I think tether ball is pretty fun

[QuickAttack]

I’ve done all of these besides allowances and the “I’m fine” thing. This is just middle class Midwest life, idk what to say.

[psychehurricane]

I used to park my bike by my front porch as a kid and not only did it get stolen but the thief tore off all the streamers and decoration on it and scattered it all over the front lawn. when I got a new bike, it was kept in the basement.

[audreyc.]

Something crashes, I have not been okay enough times to have to declare I am okay so they don't have to come running. I've been to the ER so many times.

Camping. Summer camp. I enjoy it. Woods. Fresh air. Make sure it's somewhere with no bears or mountain lions.

Bike on lawn: that things getting stolen

Allowances: get a job. Go babysit.

Babysitting: not everyone has easy family available. Get a neighborhood kid when needed

Never seen a tetherball in real life.

White girl from boston

[ViragoLady]

The best part about tetherball: sometimes it hits your sibling in the face