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Cake day: January 15th, 2024

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  • Live below my means, invest the rest.

    I don’t dress or act like people in my pay range. My house is small and in a quiet neighborhood and cost less than my salary. Car is older but paid off and I know all the quirks and have the toolbox in the back to fix it. It is probably one of the top 5 most reliable cars in history. My work dress shoes are 10 years old and my around the house shoes were new in 2019.

    I spend my money where I spend my time. So I have a nice phone, a very nice monitor and mechanical keyboard, and a good computer. And all with the right to repair philosophy. Same for my wife and kids. And also good running shoes, good exercise equipment.

    The plan is to get to a point where I can just not work at all and maintain my lifestyle. Three percent rule and all that. And also help launch my kids.

    Something about a 25 year roof and a Japanese shit box car in my fortress of solitude.

    FWIW I grew up really really really poor like you wouldn’t believe so I’m okay with this.










  • Swastikas painted on our house when I was a kid.

    Kids yell in the public park tell me that I have to go back. When pushing my son in a stroller.

    Getting told that I will have to pay for stuff when I pick it up at the store at Dollywood, like I don’t know how a merchant economy works.

    Had to fight a lot in the feral public school system growing up. All the ching chong jokes.

    Being referred to as “chowie” by a prominent basketball scout while in high school.

    Being asked if I eat dogs by my boss. In 2023.

    Being asked if my mom was an Asian whore by another boss. In 2018.

    Being told that I’m not Asian and that some white girl looks more Asian than me and how can I even claim to be Asian when I don’t have squinty eyes?

    Jokes about my ancestry when they can’t place me.

    Being pulled into secondary every time I travel through Paris CDG because I always get flagged. And one Securitas security officer telling me that Americans will never accept me as American when I finished.

    Dating scene as a teen, everything going well, then meeting the parents, then being told I wasn’t allowed to date their white daughter anymore. Like clockwork. Which is fine, they can’t handle the spice in my food anyway.