Regional insults
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dancerjodiMy co-worker was on her way out for lunch and asked if I wanted to join her at the mall. Since I already heated up my lunch and was planning on reading more of "Urban Tribes" I declined. She said "but we're going to the Ghetto-Glen Mall" :)
I laughed and she clarified further "you know, rather than the Queer-One Mall or the Scummerville Mall". I asked why the Chelsea Mall didn't make her list and she said "oh yeah, the one with the Market Basket". Yep folks, that the supermarket that Brian told me about - one time in his childhood it hit the news that two women got in a fight over the last box of Jello, in which one of them stabbed the other in the eye :)
(lets add to this note that my co-worker isn't a snob in the least bit - she is born and raised in Revere, who isn't cool enough to have its own Mall iirc).
Our city didn't rate enough to even have its own mall, either. We had Grover Cronin's (that was cool when I was a kid, and had the best holiday displays ever I think) but it was not so great by the time I got to HS. We called the Arsenal Mall in Watertown "The Trailer Park of Malls" since it didn't rate as well as those we'd go to when we *really* wanted to shop (Burlington, Natick and the old Shopper's world). The Watertown Mall, we didn't think of it as a mall really. Nobody shopped there, we just hung out with friends that worked at Strawberry's, played video games at Dream Machine, and bought drugs from the guy that worked at Bradlees and sold them to all the kids that hung out.
So what kind of regional insults did YOU have?
I laughed and she clarified further "you know, rather than the Queer-One Mall or the Scummerville Mall". I asked why the Chelsea Mall didn't make her list and she said "oh yeah, the one with the Market Basket". Yep folks, that the supermarket that Brian told me about - one time in his childhood it hit the news that two women got in a fight over the last box of Jello, in which one of them stabbed the other in the eye :)
(lets add to this note that my co-worker isn't a snob in the least bit - she is born and raised in Revere, who isn't cool enough to have its own Mall iirc).
Our city didn't rate enough to even have its own mall, either. We had Grover Cronin's (that was cool when I was a kid, and had the best holiday displays ever I think) but it was not so great by the time I got to HS. We called the Arsenal Mall in Watertown "The Trailer Park of Malls" since it didn't rate as well as those we'd go to when we *really* wanted to shop (Burlington, Natick and the old Shopper's world). The Watertown Mall, we didn't think of it as a mall really. Nobody shopped there, we just hung out with friends that worked at Strawberry's, played video games at Dream Machine, and bought drugs from the guy that worked at Bradlees and sold them to all the kids that hung out.
So what kind of regional insults did YOU have?
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Date: 2003-12-17 10:01 am (UTC)Having grown up in Chelsea, the list of regional insults about Chelsea would have to be put in a lj-cut...
BTW, I actually got shot at while hanging behind the Chelsea mall back in highschool. Luckily the kid was smoking angel dust and didn't have a very good aim :)
Heh,
Date: 2003-12-17 10:06 am (UTC)Yeah. Brian (from Everett) said that about the only good thing about Everett was that it wasn't Chelsea :) He was just annoyed though, about all the Chelsea kids piling into his school when the town first went bankrupt.
Shot at, wow! I can't say that's happened to me. It seems like there were a lot more random acts of violence in that area than where I grew up (Brian was used to carrying a weapon with him, and having random cars pull over, people get out, and threaten to beat him up due to being a "long haired faggot freak", or something like that)
Re: Heh,
Date: 2003-12-18 05:15 pm (UTC)LOL, I was a ""long haired faggot freak" in Chelsea! was he a metal head? Maybe we know each other.
Re: Heh,
Date: 2003-12-19 05:02 am (UTC)Yep, he was one of the few metal heads in Everett . . . so if you knew any from Everett you'd probably know him (though he got sucked into Rocky Horror in his Jr. year of HS, so he didn't see his metal head friends much after that).