Day 354: I almost thought I was a Bougie Black girl....not...

With the recent "S**t people say" series, it seems that we are attempting to exhaust the possibilities of every single stereotypical situation there is to try. I was almost done with the whole thing until I came upon an article on the verysmartbrothas.com website entitled: S**t Bougie Black Girls Say.

Rewind: Just last weekend, I met up with people that I hadn't seen in months and they were chiding me about how I had changed since I got that job up in N.W. D.C. It was true, I walked in there wearing a sweater, pearls earrings, and straight hair. When I looked in the mirror, I didn't even recognize myself. Who was this girl? Did I just unknowingly conform to "Business me"? Was I now Bougie?

Fast forward: I suppose a whole lot of Black women were interested in knowing the same thing because that article got the most hits ever on their website and beat the second place one by tens of thousands. WOW. This was not a parody, but an idea the author Damon Young, had to make one. In his article, he outlined the list of characteristics a Bougie Black woman has. What I wanna know Damon, is how many of these characteristics a girl has to have to be considered Bougie, all of them, 3 or 4 of them?
Reasons I don't think I'm Bougie:
1. I know a lot of Black girls more Bougie than me, but then I guess that doesn't prove I'm not bougie, just less than?* 
2. I've never bought brand name anything (shoes, clothes, bags) unless I bought it at Ross or TJMaxx.
3. The highest up on the Old Navy/Gap/Banana Republic chain, I've been in was Gap Outlet.
4. My boyfriend bought me a gift in a Bloomingdale box and I thought that was a made-up store in movies.
5. I sometimes go to the Harris Teeter**, just to eat all their samples and call it lunch.
6. I've only flown first class, when they upgraded my seat for giving up my previous ticket and waiting 2 hours for the next plane.
7. I don't come from money. I come from country people.
8. I accept free t-shirts like I'm still in college.
9. I think Trader Joes is expensive.
10. I returned my Kindle after one day, because the library is still free.


Reasons I might be:
1. The passport thing is on my list! You must have a passport and be willing to travel. He tried to say that it would be easy for a man to get one. He must have never tried. I have! In 2009, I asked the man I was dating if we could go on an international trip that summer. He looked blankly at me and said he would work on a passport. It is 2012 and he must still be working on it because I gave up like 3 months later.

2. I LOVE BRUNCH! Love restaurants with all day breakfast menus, but then I really really like breakfast food in general.

3. Who's gonna be there? Ok, but can I just want to know I won't be the only one there?
That's all I don't like Thai food, don't know what ratchet means, want a Greek man (though I have one) or have an unnatural love for Target.

So what's the verdict? I don't think Bougie people would even accept me.



*Is this a math equation? DANG.
**Pretty sure my country is coming out, when I said the Harris Teeter. My family still goes to the Walmart.