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[ SECRET POST #3315 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3315 ⌋

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For me: "What do you mean, there won't be people to do my laundry in college?" (She was 18 and starting college in less than a month.)

Runner up: "You're the first person like you I've ever met!" She meant I was the first gay person. She was 24, I was 20. Oh, and our manager was a gay man.

Y'all's turn!

"I've never been outside this town."

A small town. Of 10,000 people. In Britain. She was 23.

There's probably more people like that than we realize. Although I doubt it was 100% literal unless she lived in one of those towns that's also miles away from anywhere else. Still, though. It's sad to me but I guess some people are happy that way?

Doesn't exactly scream worldiness, though.

Re: What is the most sheltered thing you've ever heard someone say?

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Re: What is the most sheltered thing you've ever heard someone say?

(Anonymous) - 2016-02-01 17:36 (UTC) - Expand

In person, I had a friend in high school, very sheltered, very religious, whom I'm told a) didn't understand the color entering Pleasantville as a result of the woman's orgasm when her class watched it in 10th grade, and who b)when asked why people have sex in 12th grade, said "to make babies" as if procreation is the only reason to have to sex, ever, at all.

Also, my cousin once shared this BuzzFeed list of the reasons 24 women don't use birth control (http://www.buzzfeed.com/leahm4aa38ad70/we-asked-24-women-why-they-dont-use-birth-control-v1ji) and number 17, "Because babies are cooler than pets" as if those two things are mutually exclusive makes me want to tear my hair out.

"Does police brutality actually exist?"

Runner up: "I've read about this. I'm certain at least 90% of [in context, specifically black] men in jail are there for violent offenses."

I was babysitting the cat of a Japanese (from Japan) friend, and my crotchety old racist grandma tried to helpfully suggest that "you can tell the cat is Japanese, it has those eyes." The cat was adopted in America, for what it's worth. Additionally, when I returned from living in Japan, my grandma said I looked a bit Japanese now.

She hasn't forgotten World War II.

I have a runner up for this one too! "Does [cousin's Japanese fiancé, born in the US to Japanese parents iirc] look *very* oriental? You know, as opposed to [uncle's Korean wife, born in Korea]? She looks American."

That made plenty of sense, grandma, thank you. :p

I was oddly sheltered, which is weird because my parents didn't actively shelter me at all (though I think people thought they did) - rather, I think I just wasn't interested in what the cool kids were saying/doing, so I missed out on a lot of things.

Which got awkward when, in high school, a guy I was IMing asked me "what are you wearing?" and I brightly answered: "Jeans and a t-shirt!" :)

Yeah...

That's adorable

Re: What is the most sheltered thing you've ever heard someone say?

(Anonymous) - 2016-01-31 22:38 (UTC) - Expand

I don't get it.
(Probably not because I'm so sheltered but maybe a culture thing?)
Explain?

I had a friend in high school tell me, in earnest, that she knew a girl who'd gotten pregnant on a toilet seat at McDonald's. "And like, nobody will believe that that's how she got pregnant!"

The scary thing is that this friend was sexually active herself.

"Ooh, look! Chinese people!" Said by someone in a crowd when my school band visited a small town to play in its parade. (Plus: the "Chinese" people they were pointing at were Filipino.)

For me: "What do you mean, there won't be people to do my laundry in college?" (She was 18 and starting college in less than a month.)

For as much as they charge for dorms, they should be providing a laundry and dry cleaning service along with it...

This.

Re: What is the most sheltered thing you've ever heard someone say?

(Anonymous) - 2016-02-01 06:05 (UTC) - Expand

"Racism wasn't a thing here before the 1950s though, right? I mean, there was the slave trade, but that was only in America."

For context: I'm Canadian, and the person who said this to me was also Canadian.

Re: What is the most sheltered thing you've ever heard someone say?

morieris - 2016-01-31 23:07 (UTC) - Expand

It's a toss-up between

"Oh there's no rape in [Eastern European country]."
"How do you know that?"
"It's never in the news!"

and

"Well, poor people don't have to buy Halloween costumes, they can just make them like I do!"

Re: What is the most sheltered thing you've ever heard someone say?

(Anonymous) - 2016-01-31 23:23 (UTC) - Expand

"People are poor because they're lazy. I shouldn't have to pay taxes to support people who are unwilling to work." Said by my libertarian uncle.

"White men are now the marginalized group in America." Said by same uncle.

"We moved because the neighborhood became unsafe." Said by my racist southern grandmother. Unsafe was in reference to Black families moving in.

my sister doesn't know who Madonna is. Or Nicky Minaj.

She also thought that McGonagall was played by Margaret Thatcher.

Re: What is the most sheltered thing you've ever heard someone say?

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Re: What is the most sheltered thing you've ever heard someone say?

(Anonymous) - 2016-02-01 16:14 (UTC) - Expand

"I don't understand why black people need books with black protagonists. What's wrong with white protagonists?"
This was in response to the story about a little black girl collecting books with black MCs. The girl who told me this is white and from a very small town. I don't think she meant it maliciously and she kinda got it after I explained to her how the default seems to be white and how important representation is, but it was still a weird thing to hear.

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Re: What is the most sheltered thing you've ever heard someone say?

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Re: What is the most sheltered thing you've ever heard someone say?

(Anonymous) - 2016-02-01 00:34 (UTC) - Expand

"So, if I leave for a month I don't have to pay for electricity right?"

No, that is not how a rental contract with a flat rate for electricity works.

Re: What is the most sheltered thing you've ever heard someone say?

kallanda_lee - 2016-02-01 11:26 (UTC) - Expand

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Re: What is the most sheltered thing you've ever heard someone say?

herpymcderp - 2016-02-02 00:27 (UTC) - Expand

My cousin is a sweet, smart, but naive woman of 28. A few months ago, she got married, moved out of her parents' house for the first time, and moved into the house she and her new husband had just bought. She called my aunt a few weeks later, wondering why she had received an electric bill in the mail. She literally did not realize that she had to pay for her electricity usage. She thought she'd bought the house and all utilities were included. *sigh*

Refugees welcome.

I had a tenant who took possession a month after the term of the lease began (in part because she and her husband were honeymooning), and she was surprised that they had to pay rent for that month.

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