Odd assumptions

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  • _lyndseybrooke_
    _lyndseybrooke_ Posts: 2,561 Member
    People either think I'm a b**** (not sure why) or they think I'm way nicer than I really am. I'm somewhere in between.

    I also love when I can tell a server at a restaurant assumes my husband and I are crappy tippers because we're young. Not the case.

    Some people that don't know me well also seem to think that I'm the person to talk to about their emotions. I'm not.
  • odddrums
    odddrums Posts: 342 Member
    I suffer from BRF - B!tchy Resting Face, therefore I am a b!tch

    Me too! I even have a frank discussion with my classes about this the first week of school, letting all my students know that I'm not angry, or sad, or want to kill them, that's just what my face does.

    My students probably assume that I'm super lame and never go out or do anything remotely fun, and that I'm a killjoy. Not sure about people that aren't minors, they probably just think I'm angry about something. Oh well...
  • tk2222
    tk2222 Posts: 199 Member
    People assume i'm a vegetarian/vegan a lot because I'm fairly politically active...the conflation of ideology and stereotypical lifestyle imagery just kills me on that one.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    -People assume that my husband and I have a lot of money. We make less than most people I know, but we are really good at being thrifty.

    I've had so many weird money assumptions, going both directions. My husband and I are CRAZY-frugal and live beneath our means. I encounter very few people who really "get" our lifestyle. It is assumed that we're poorer or in worse financial shape than we are in most cases. Whether spoken directly or implied, I get this stuff:

    "Oh so you guys rent? I bet you could buy a house with this special loan I heard about..." (We love the freedom of renting. I've owned and sold two different homes in the past and my husband could not care less about homeownership)

    "Don't you hate how credit cards charge so much interest!?" (We pay ours off monthly and have zero debt)

    "Wouldn't you love to be able to buy a new gigantic SUV?" (We could do this today, with relative ease, but our cars are clean, not that old, paid for and run well...we'll replace them with similar small economy cars when needed but not right away)

    "How do you guys have the money to go off on all those fun trips and buy new clothes all of the time - but you don't have cable/satellite/the new iPhone???" (Thrift stores and different priorities!)

    I totally get this! We have:
    -Nice cars
    -Big house
    -College fund for the baby

    Besides that, there's nothing really we splurged on. We don't have:
    -Credit card debt (we pay ours off every month too)
    -Car payments
    -Any kind of debt other than our mortgage.
    -Frequent vacations
    -Cable/internet
    -And we almost never eat outside the home.

    See, I think that's so cool!! Even though you guys clearly have different priorities than we do (we are childfree by choice which is a big part of it I'm sure)...it sounds really similar to the way we think :-) I bet you have at least a few friends and acquaintances who think you guys are major ballers AND/OR struggling with debt. haha
  • marleyskye05
    marleyskye05 Posts: 138
    I can only wonder what people think about me or assume about me upon first meeting. I honestly don't know.
  • megnay
    megnay Posts: 65 Member
    People assume I am promiscuous because I can be slightly aggressive and appear confident with men... Which is SO far from the truth!
  • Woodspoon
    Woodspoon Posts: 223 Member
    People meet me and think im "Mr Nice" (really horrible label) then they find out I ride a motorbike and an atheist, all of a sudden I'm evil personified.
  • megnay
    megnay Posts: 65 Member
    People often assume I'm Spanish as well. I find it odd that people are so eager to categorize.
  • ummlovelovesyou
    ummlovelovesyou Posts: 1,024 Member
    People assume I don't date white guys. Wrong. :noway:

    People assume because I laugh at their jokes, I am interested to hear more. Wrong. :noway:

    People assume because I don't eat meat I then must eat nothing but salad. Wrong. :noway:


    ...my longest (3.5 year) relationship was with a blonde hair/blue eyed guy; I am a very polite person. Peace not war? And also....




    .....CARBS mmmmm nomzzzzz :love: :love: :love:
  • Lilly_the_Hillbilly
    Lilly_the_Hillbilly Posts: 914 Member
    I've had people assume that I'm European (I'm American). I guess they also assume that I should have had boyfriends or something but I never did.
  • WolfChylde
    WolfChylde Posts: 50 Member
    People assume I'm mean, due to my chronic b*tch face. I've also been told I'm intimidating....... In reality I'm just a really goofy, uncoordinated nerd, who plays way too much Skyrim.

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