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we rent a house in a cracker ass neighborhood with an overbearing HOA and a bunch of middle aged/elderly white people with nothing going on in their lives
i went for a walk the other night, then the next morning i look at the neighborhood fb group and see a post a neighbor made about how some guy wandered onto their porch. anyway this woman replies in the comments about how our area is supposedly “becoming unsafe” (its not) and how her husband told her he saw “someone walking in a hoodie at 11 last night”. that someone was me. i saw her husband pulling in while i walked by and thought to myself “god i hope this mf doesnt talk to me”. he didnt. apparently he went inside and immediately told his wife there was someone walking down the street. suspiciously wearing a hoodie in 45 degree weather. also i want to point out it was closer to 10 but she specifically claimed 11 bc it sounds scarier lmfao
This is exactly what I wonder they're doing when I walk around the neighborhood with my dog at night wearing a hoodie. And I bet they are doing just that. Frankly, any cracker who slows down or stops and stares, I stare right back until they leave - because if you're going to suspect, back it up with your words. You don't get to suspect quietly and in cowardice.
However I don't live in the US so the likelihood of being gunned down for standing up for myself is next to zero. The fact that some cowardly little cracker could do that there makes me sick, because that's all they are without their guns.
yeah, this was confirmation for me as well. i always figured they were probably thinking some shit but then seeing it confirmed like that on fb lmao. honestly it sucks but i can't help but laugh. these boomers specifically are ridiculous bc they bought their house in this neighborhood when shit costed nothing. my room mates and i probably each pay more a month to live here than they ever paid for their mortgage but they wanna act like somehow we don't belong here
I thought people were exaggerating, white people are really like that