the kyoko chronicles

ghetto special section

Some of these are just for fun, but a lot of them are true. Don't get ghetto living all wrong, it's not THAT bad!

101 wayz to tell if your ghetto you know you're GHETTO if...

  1. you're hooked on ebonics.
  2. you think tupac faked his death.
  3. you get into a fistfight while you're pregnant.
  4. you put sugar on frosted cornflakes.
  5. you got married in prison.
  6. you use your hands to put your food on your fork.
  7. you're still proud of your jheri curl.
  8. you have a car phone and no car.
  9. you iron dirty clothes.
  10. you pop your gum at a job interview.
  11. you've ever been a guest on Ricki Lake.
  12. you wear house shoes to the grocery store.
  13. you're 19 and you just met your father.
  14. you use a clothes hanger as a TV antenna.
  15. you chew ice.
  16. you recognize your homies on America's Most Wanted.
  17. you work out at a jungle gym in the park.
  18. you record over previously recorded tapes.
  19. you steal and get beat only for getting caught.
  20. your Mom does your hair in the kitchen.
  21. you go to school just to sell drugs.
  22. you pick your shaving bumps in public.
  23. you put on panty hose instead of shaving your legs.
  24. you got all new appliances the day after the riots.
  25. you're getting paid, but your bills ain't.
  26. your moms washes paper plates.
  27. you buy clothes for a party and return them to the store the next day.
  28. you only go to church on Easter and Mother's day.
  29. you drink a soda with breakfast.
  30. you throw a pool party at the fire hydrant.
  31. if you use old panty hose w/ runs in them as a stocking cap
  32. you use your oven to dry wet clothes.
  33. your first name begins with Ta',La', or Sha'.
  34. the windows in your house have more cardboard than glass.
  35. you took the batteries out of the smoke detector to put in your pager.
    b. if you freeze bateries to get more life out of them
  36. the Santa Claus at your mall doesn't have the red and white outfits.
  37. you buy pagers to match your outfits.
  38. you have graffiti on your shower curtains.
  39. your teacher is afraid to teach you.
  40. you go trick-or-treating without a costume.
  41. you pee in the shower.
  42. you have to put stuff on layaway at the 99- cent store.
  43. you play tackle football on concrete.
  44. you brush your teeth with a washcloth.
  45. your man can wear his hair in a ponytail but you can't.
  46. you buy cigarettes individually,not by the pack.
  47. use food stamps at the chinese resteraunt
  48. you do your grocery shopping at the liquor store.
  49. you jump into a fight that doesn't involve you
  50. you can hear the heater but you can't feel it.
  51. you have a drawer full of catsup,jelly,salt,and napkins from fast-food restaurants.
  52. you think you should be the jet beauty of the week.
  53. you wrap Christmas presents in newspaper.
  54. you walk your pit bull without a leash.
  55. if you buy bootleg cds and movies
  56. you thought you were getting a million at the Million Man march.
  57. your landlord is afraid to come to your apartment.
  58. if you ever got whupped w/ a switch
  59. if your moms sang a song while whupping u
  60. you have a lock on your phone.
  61. you can outrun a police dog.
  62. when you were little you had to be in the house before the streetlights came on.
  63. you think you can kick Mike Tyson's ass.
  64. you go to church just to pick up women.
  65. there's a black Jesus in your living room.
  66. you take a bubble bath with dishwashing liquid.
  67. you write down your phone number with eyeliner or lipstick.
  68. you found your dog.
  69. your boxers are longer than your shorts.
  70. you return girts for the money.
  71. it was okay to have D's on your report card.
  72. you have more than one social security number.
  73. you yell "pookie" in your house and 5 people turn around.
  74. you used to play hide and go get it.
  75. you think going to prison is "keeping it real".
  76. if your mama puts the lords name in everything
  77. your Mom can pop a wheelie on a ten-speed.
  78. you save cooking grease.
  79. you left Las Vegas mad because they didn't have a domino table.
  80. your woman has more hair on her legs than you have on your chest.
  81. your uncle still has furry dice hanging from his rearview mirror.
  82. you use one tea bag for six cups of tea.
  83. there's a metal detector at your kid's day care.
  84. you can't go outside until your brother comes home with the jacket.
  85. you brought your Christmas tree the day after Christmas.
  86. your Mom whups your friends.
  87. you keep food stamps in a money clip.
  88. you think grease and water make your hair curly.
  89. your still doing the running man.
  90. you wear tube socks with dress shoes.
  91. you call celebrities by their character's name.
  92. you add water to shampoo to stretch it.
  93. you have a gold cap over a cavity.
  94. you use a toothbrush to style your baby hair.
  95. you think going on a diet means no candy.
  96. you can outrun a cop while wearing high heels.
  97. your fingernails are longer then your fingers.
  98. you think jury duty is a good way to make money.
  99. you named your kids after cars you can't afford.
  100. you have the phone numbers to several prisons on speed dial.
  101. you've ever snuck a forty-ounce into church.

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