When did you realize you were from a ghetto a** family?

[NYETOPn]

Eat syrup and ketchup sammiches

syrup

ketchup

How..how did that work, bruh?

 

[Aztec_Kang]

My childhood Halloween costumes......

I was a ghost like three different years which consisted of a white sheet with two holes cut out for eyes.

Or I was a karate guy which consisted of wearing one of my dads karate gees.

 

[CaliGuerillaBlazin]

I'm born and raised in the hood but not really a ghetto family. My mom's side is cool, just big as fuck. I got cousins I aint ever even met. My dads is aight, we got our fair share of fuck ups, a couple thugs but nothing major.

I remember going to friends houses tho in elementary. Mayo on white bread sandwiches(fried bologna if we were lucky), Kool Aid, Instant mashed potatoes where u just add hot water. Hood ass cookouts.

 

[Trollio]

Eat syrup and ketchup sammiches

syrup

ketchup

How..how did that work, bruh?

Syrup plus slice of bread folded in half with syrup in the middle= syrup sammich

Switch out ketchup with syrup and ketchup sammich

 

[KingFreeman]

Bringing tupperware to buffets. Create a mountain of pasta, bring it back to your table then transfer it to the tupperware. I seen that before when I went out with my aunties/uncles. I was like WTF?

When I was younger my uncles wife used to do the same shit. One time me, my cuz, uncle and his wife went to Chinese buffet. Think I was around 11. My unk was a real skinny dude but his wife was on that Aretha. So she come back to the table with 2 plates stacked with wings. I'm talking like 20-30 a plate. So I'm thinking everything's velvet and reach for some wings. I guess she didn't book right away cause soon as I got to that 3rd wing this bitch slapped my hand and took back the wings I had on my plate. I'm looking at my uncle and he acting like he ain't see shit. Cuz is a year younger than me trying not to laugh at this fat bitch. Then she pulled out Tupperware and drops a plate of wings in there trying to be stealth and shit. I knew my fam was hood but da fuck. I was confused as fuck.

 

[leftcoastkev]

1. if you get locked up and half the block know you because you so and so's nephew/cousin/brother/son. i couldn't adjust to jail life but i see how some of my relatives get comfortable with that shit.

2. when you go over "those relatives" house and your moms wouldn't let you get in the car until you turn all your pockets inside out and shake your jacket out to make sure you ain't taking no roaches home.

3. when you don't invite uncle XXXXXX to the holiday dinner because that dopefiend mofo ain't ate in a week and once he start eatin he gon eat errr fucking thang.

4. when you got some uncles that's ministers and preachers, but at family get togethers all you hear is old war stories about pimpin hos, good dope, big booty vanessa, and how some niggas got shot for talkin shit.

5. yo aunt do hair, sell weed, bootleg liquor, and babysit kids.....all out the same house.

6. when you got specific instructions for when specific relatives come over your house ("if uncle Charlie come over, don't let that nigga in the bedrooms make sure he go use the bathroom downstairs")

 

[DillaDeaf]

When my two aunts back in the early/mid 90s fought during Thanksgiving Day (we talking old school Mississippi Delta beatdown) over who would get the MJ's "Bad" vinyl LP that was left at the aunt house.

When I went to my great grandma funeral in the D back in 2000, my cousins and me piled up in the car with sticky ooh wee all fogging up the car and we playing 2 Live Crew's "As Nasty As We Want To Be" album during the funeral procession line.

Where one cousin announce his coming out (being gay) by simply practicing splits at a family bbq over the summer over at my grandma's place in Canada .....some beer drinks/can died that day trying to beat (thrown at) that boy into being straight with no avail.

 

[Knock_Twice]

Mayne I was around 4 years old..went to my aunt house..cuzins and shit over there...we all outside and shit..I'm kickin rocks and shit lol..throwing them bitches...my girl cuzin and her friends runs on the porch to my aunt and was like "come on, come on..Let's play Mama May I" ...I turnt around like what the fuck...Lmao..mayne no lie, that was the best fuckin hood game I had played Lol...

 

[IceManKam]

When my grandmother would use tree branches, cords, etc. as substitutes for belts

 

[Knock_Twice]

1. when you went somewhere wit ya mama and shit..you 6 years old..yall rode in the front of the place and saw ppl standing a long ass line...ya mama said "get cho yo ass out and stand in line and let me go find a parking spot lol

2. When yo mama on the phone talkin and somebody related to the family ( a cuzin) did a crime and been on the run and the local news flashes his picture on the T.V. screen.. she says to whoever on the other end "Child they done caught Lil Pee Wee, he on the news now turn on 2" Lol

3.When you have that relative that have something wrong with them...you and yo brothers and sisters always talk about it and use it against one another..Like if your Uncle has a little hand or something or a hairy mole...yall be like "you better leave me alone before I tell Uncle Rodney to touch you wit that lil hand of his" Lol

 

[lord_infamous]

When my female cousin caught a case for burning down half of Fulton st in Bedstuy (shopping area) and killing a fellow crackhead.

When my male cousin just chilled in front of the liquor store and asked his little cousin (me) to "hold" a quarter from the age 5 and up

Jelly glass jars used as cups

Living on a block where the official end to every block party was a nigga shooting in the air

Plastic covers on everything (might be a southern transplant thing, i dunno)

Guvment cheese blocks tasting good as fuck

 

[L3NU]

when my dad went to walmart and bought me 6 pairs of socks but he kept 3 for himself,

 

[ex-soldier]

I used to go over my cousins' house and they ignore all these roaches like they part of the fam. Had a lil' nigga scared to go to sleep.

 

[Chef_Taylor]

save all the unused McDonald ketchup packs and Chinese duck sauce packs

Shidd I still do that.

 

[damnkp]

I remember running an extension cord next door when the lights would get cut off..or unplugging the light bulb for the carport to put a power socket wit an outlet to attach the extension cord so we could watch tv and keep the refrigerator runnin

 

[MoneyPowerRespect]

y'all got me over here in tears.

- turning butter dishes into tupperware [idgaf..that shit is recycling at it's finest]

but some of that other shit is just ratchet. smh

 

[jetlifebih]

when my grandma started calling roaches "cousins"

"put your plate in the oven, you know ya cousins'll get to it"

 

[bignorm]

Pole basketball.

 

[LUClEN]

When all my friends had blue ray players and we still had vhs

 

[Tymoney19]

My parents came from Nigeria. They tell me about all the ghetto shit they did out there that would put y'all to shame but then they moved to NYC and became middle class.