The Corner Store Stereotypes - When I Was a Kid...Part III
When I was a kid I lived in a neighborhood infested with corner stores. The convienent store didn't seem worth walking into unless it was on the corner.
Near my house, we had a convienent store on each corner! Well my school was on one corner so there were actually three stores total. But here's the thing: each store represented the different nationalities of my neighborhood.
There was La Tropicana (obviously for the hispanics), Hank 7 (gambling connotations-obviously for the blacks), and Gordon's (the Jamaican spot that sold those blazin' beef patties and the most enormous rotten bananas I've ever seen).
Each store seemed to embrace the stereotypes associated with each race. Hank 7, as blacks are stereotypically known for always being late, was the last to open for business. La Tropicano, in the stereotypical lazy fashion, closed up shop first. Gordon's, stereotypically being the hard worker, is still going strong to this day. Mmmmm. I love those beef patties.
FYI: I know I spelled convenient wrong throughout this post but I'm not going to go back and change it because I keeps it real. Word.
Near my house, we had a convienent store on each corner! Well my school was on one corner so there were actually three stores total. But here's the thing: each store represented the different nationalities of my neighborhood.
There was La Tropicana (obviously for the hispanics), Hank 7 (gambling connotations-obviously for the blacks), and Gordon's (the Jamaican spot that sold those blazin' beef patties and the most enormous rotten bananas I've ever seen).
Each store seemed to embrace the stereotypes associated with each race. Hank 7, as blacks are stereotypically known for always being late, was the last to open for business. La Tropicano, in the stereotypical lazy fashion, closed up shop first. Gordon's, stereotypically being the hard worker, is still going strong to this day. Mmmmm. I love those beef patties.
FYI: I know I spelled convenient wrong throughout this post but I'm not going to go back and change it because I keeps it real. Word.
posted by Mary at 2:52 PM
3 Comments:
Sometime keeping it real can go wrong!!! :) Anyway, the patties @ Gordon's are off the heezy for sheezy. I actually used to talk to the guy who owns it's daughter. Anywho, I always wondered why inner cities have so many corner stores. It seems so weird to see a store that isn't on a corner. Where I grew up, Lee's was the only store in the area that WASN'T on a corner. I never like to go in there because I thought they killed people and chopped them up in the back. I think most stores are on the corner because it would sound stupid to say "I'm going to the middle of the block store to get some Bravos, a quarter juice, and some jingles!". Corner store just sounds so much mo' better.
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