I want to be invited to a stiff, awkward white family's dinner

You know where it's all quiet and all you hear is the forks scraping on the plates. I'm white but I'm trailer trash, we don't even have dinners we just eat crackers and chips on the couch.

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  • bigbudchonga

    Silence smelly peasant! To even dream of such a thing is beyond you!

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    • tahersyed

      Sorry rude but funny XD

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  • paramore93

    Those dinners make me want to run away screaming. Eating on the sofa is the way forward.

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    • nikkiclaire

      Bed is where it's at.

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      • paramore93

        Hey! Bed is great until you spill xP

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  • Meowypowers

    "Well Rutherford, how are your studies at the University?" "They're going spendidly father."

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  • megadriver

    What's a "white family dinner"?

    I'm white, my family is white. I do live abroad, but when I'm home, we always have dinner together. Always have, always will. I doubt black, or asian families are much different.

    You sit down, have dinner, talk with your folks, wife, girlfriend, whatever... have a good home cooked meal. It's nice.

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    • McBean

      Yes, upper middle class white people often steer the conversation toward detailed concepts of law, medicine, engineering and business. It's like enrichment classes for intellectually gifted grade school kids. I really looked forward to dinner as a kid. It gave me the 50,000 ft view on almost everything.

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      • megadriver

        That happens on formal dinners. Businessy stuff. It's actually annoying. I hate that bit on formal dinners. And I'm in management, so I have to start such talks to appear serious and businessy...

        Such talks are pointless, cause everyone just talks everyone else's ears off and no progress is being made.
        Neither of us is a doctor, engineer, lawyer, or anything like that. All of us are car salesmen and people that manage vehicle storage. Discussing medicine and law really our thing... But hey! Motivation! Business! Job!

        But family dinners are not like this. While my dad can ask me about work and about future investments sometimes. Sometimes I ask him for advice, but the businessy/ formal stuff is only a very small part of the dinner conversation. Cause after all, you are there to eat dinner and relax, not plan your retirement.

        Don't mix up stiff, boring business dinners with family dinners.

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        • McBean

          I see that my family was a bit different than yours. To relax, we were writing plans on paper napkins with algebraic expressions to add detail to the topic at hand. Stimulating, recreational, and above all else it avoided "brain bleed" small talk.

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  • I don't like quiet dinners because I'm self-conscious about my mouth noises.

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  • I’m not trailer trash but my family eats at a table once a year which is thanksgiving. We’re not the most formal white people. It’s shitty tho just family bragging mentioning how far their kids are going in life and eating like the scene in white chicks. We mostly couch that shit but with actual food.

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  • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

    kickin it in the WASP ghetto eh?

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  • angryblonde

    sounds like you need a cock up your ass

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  • RoseIsabella

    If my sister is around then she is always talking loudly about herself.

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  • RoseIsabella

    OMG! That's probably not that good for you.

    Crackers and chips on the couch doesn't sound so good to me.

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  • Humans so often want things that we don't have, even if they aren't that good. Contentment might as well equal true happiness.

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  • leggs91200

    You could attend a black dinner where people scream with laughter, run around in circles, roll around on the ground, and bust some caps in asses like a muthah fuggah sheeeeeet!

    About the stiff white awkward family dinner - your best bet THERE is to make friends with someone who is an elder conservative southern baptist hellfire and brimstone republican old school values type person.
    But if you do so, do NOT blame me if he is not up for the idea of having a transsexual satanist hooker come over for the occasion.

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  • Cuntsiclestick

    I went to one of those with my boyfriend except everyone there was Hispanic like me and it was my sister's wedding. Those snoots looked down on me and acted like I ruined things even though I was quiet, polite, I actually ate slowly and in small amounts. Then again what did I expect? I'm a ghetto Hispanic, so I was waaay out of place. XD

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    • RoseIsabella

      My Hispanic family in Texas who are Fundamentalists are on the quiet side. My mom, dad and sister are loud.

      I once had a therapist who had me draw a picture of my family. I drew my Mom in the kitchen, my Dad watching TV, my sister just randomly talking about herself and me sitting on the floor near the stereo, with headphones on and listening to records.

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      • Cuntsiclestick

        For some reason I remember school psychologists asking me to do that. I drew everyone as dogs, parrots, and cats. The only one I drew as a human was Blackie, our dog. XD

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        • RoseIsabella

          OMG! That was awesome!

          When I was in fourth and fifth grade I had to see the school counselor every Monday after lunch during recess. I don't know what they technically thought was wrong with me, but I kinda would like to know. I have my suspicions, but now that it's been over thirty-five years, and there's probably no way of finding out specifically, but I kinda wanna know now.

          I guess I've always been different. I didn't mind the weekly sessions, because I wasn't really big on recess when I was in fourth and fifth grade.

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          • Cuntsiclestick

            Thank you. Being different will usually do it. I recall other kids telling me that thats why they went there. There's nothing wrong with being different though. Youre awesome!
            :)
            Honestly I was just sent to the psychologist or the guidance counselor once a week because I was a lazy bones who didn't study or do homework and I was always drawing things. Detention was my domain. XD

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            • RoseIsabella

              I'm a lazy bones a lot nowadays. I've feeling kinda freaked out, and more depressed than usual, because on Saturday I got a call on my cell phone from a friend of my ex's family. I texted and called a few people I know about it for moral support. My father then told me that my ex called him twice on his cell phone last week, and top it all off yesterday was the one year anniversary of the shit hitting the fan with my abusive psycho ex-boyfriend. So I dunno why on Earth these people could be attempting to contact me or my dad.

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    • I always feel very uncomfortable at those types of dinners. I can actually get jittery and feel a bit unwelcome.

      As a teen, I once had the occasion to dine with miss Sarah green, a nice octogenarian who claimed to be a distant member of the royals of Britain (bullshit, but I didn't let on) . Upon sensing my discomfort, she explained to me that manners and etiquette were designed to make guests feel comfortable at your home, not to show some type of heirarchal superiority over a person. Upon hearing this, I relaxed somewhat and she and myself ate together discussing things like which fork to use and what topics should be discussed at such an occasion. I felt a lot better and actually enjoyed the meal.

      If they make you uncomfortable, it's because they don't understand the purpose behind the long tradition of manners and etiquette.

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      • Cuntsiclestick

        Thank you. I didn't know manners were supposed to be for that reason. Honestly they never even complained to my face about my boyfriend and I's behavior, though I could see they didn't like me. I found out like months later from my sister that they were complaining to her about how we were. She still complains to this day about how I offended them, but I tried my best. I think I'll just stick with parties in my hometown. Acting polite like I did at the wedding is seen as pretentious and feel like I can be myself there. XD

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  • HeTalksInMaths

    well yeah, free rich people's food. i don't talk at dinner anyway. but crackers and chips are good too. y'all have any cheez it grooves? i have those for dinner sometimes

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  • ysgadksjab

    yeah why not we all have shit we wanna do

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  • Sounds....good

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