Nosotros all can recognize when we take ventured as well far beyond the tracks and ended up in the ghetto. The billboards are no longer in English language. The ratio of pawn shops to Starbucks has flipped. There are jaliscos/cheque cashing places on every block. What nosotros may not notice is when WE ARE ghetto. That's why I'grand here! This handy checklist will permit y'all to see the signs and realize if you have gone ghetto.

Plough around Marge….I recall we've gone likewise far.

10. Yous car is a pile of shit. Mismatched body panels, three blinging rims and one regular rim, a bad bubbled tint job with your family proper noun on the back window, and y'all bulldoze an Oldsmobile cutlass- doesn't matter what twelvemonth. Also, if your rims are larger than a person, end drinking the ghetto juice.

Aye playa, in that location is such a affair as too much.

9. You lot know the formula for grape Kool-Help from birth. If you are truly ghetto, yous purchase the cheap knock-off mix or even the pre-made shit. For those who don't know the formula it is as follows:

Shitload of sugar+shitload of grape mix= GRAPE DRAAAAAAANK!!!!

GRAPE DRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANK!!!

Just the ghetto know the exact ratio. It's just a gut feeling. Hardwired into your ghettofied Dna. Some of you are nodding with a knowing smile correct now. You're ghetto. The others of yous who are puzzled- you are not. Go back to your coffee.

8. Every carbonated drink in being is a Coke, even when you hateful something else. Say you finish at the corner store and your friend offers to hook y'all up with a beverage. They ask, "What would y'all like?" Yous say, "A Coke." You await patiently in the car dreaming of the delicious goodness of a (insert favorite regional carbonated diabetic bomb of a drink hither) and your friend comes back with an actual Coca-Cola. You are disappointed! Your friend should have known what you meant! Fucker! If you are laughing out loud correct at present…you're ghetto.

See, America is only ghetto as shit!!!

7. When you go to the grocery store….it's a family unit upshot. Grandma in her scooter chair, all your cousins, Ray-Ray, Lil' Boob, Pooky n' them…..they ALL Go. Whether they're needed or not. Also, none of the kids are wearing proper clothes. Some may exist barefoot. The babies are only in Pampers. Grandma is packing a pistol. You've seen them. If you haven't…then it's your group.

Everyone in this picture is related. Everyone seen nana?

6. The furniture adorning your dwelling house is terribly mismatched. Your burrow is textile and beige, simply your recliner is pleather and dark light-green. Your kitchen table is a card table with folding chairs. You lot've inherited every piece of piece of furniture you ain from someone else. Ghetto fourth dimension!!! Welcome to Thunderdome, bitch!!!!

Yous wish your shit was this good.

5. At that place is a non working vehicle somewhere on your premises. Whether you live in an apartment complex, duplex, or actually have a dwelling (which is some major feat with your shitty ghetto credit) at that place is a thing that vaguely resembles a vehicle rotting in your driveway or parking area. Information technology has already died, leaving the telltale blobbed stain of oil on the asphalt or concrete, but dammit…you had good times in that motherfucker!!! You conceived your first chilren in dat ride with your first babymomma/daddy. This leads me likewise….

Don't presume the 1 under the tarp is the not-working one. They're all every bit disrepair.

4. You have a babydaddy/babymomma. Non ghetto people tend to, you lot know, be married to the people they procreate with or at the very least exist in a committed relationship with the person who has provided half of the genetic material to your offspring…merely not ghetto people!!!! We never let having a pack of feral, bad ass kids get in the way of banging as many hood rats or gangstas every bit possible!

Somebody got with this….willingly. Drunk or not, this is scary.

iii. Y'all accept MULTIPLE babydaddies/mommas. Impressive as it is to have 4 children by the historic period of 22, information technology'due south even More than impressive if those 4 kids are from 4 dissimilar parents! The family unit barbecues/fish frys/altogether parties are always good drama! Watching someone get drunk at a kids' party and forget who junior's daddy/momma is? Now that's bang-up amusement.

Y'all wanna hear something funny? Y'all know Craig? Run into, what had happen was….

two. Your credit information technology shit. I don't mean "Oh shoot, my score went from 750 to 680!" I hateful, "God daaaaamn!!! My shit'southward almost in unmarried digits!". You lot have credit and so bad that loan sharks are really your only option. Payday loan places close upwards shop when they run into y'all coming. Credit so jacked upwardly that the merely offers in the mail service you get are for cards with an Apr so high, your grandkids will notwithstanding exist paying off anything you might purchase with it.

Y'all got layaway?

one. You're a grandparent before you turn 40. The average age for most people becoming a grandparent is fifty for women and 52 for men. In the ghetto though, errrrbody is in a hurry so no one waits that long!!! You must exist craaaaaazy!! Fuck school!!! Let'south brand babies we tin can't afford to have care of!!! Condoms?! Hell no, that shit ruins the feeling yo!! You have kids by sixteen, they have kids by 16. Y'all're 32 and taking care of your grandbaby while your child finishes upwards with their GED. Then you lot have to await until they're done so you tin get your GED. Then yous're 48 watching your neat-grandkids with your 32 year old kid (who nevertheless lives at abode by the way) while your grandkids get their GEDs. Terribly vicious wheel.

Not pictured…their mother'due south heads exploding.

If you've gotten this far and are in any fashion offended…y'all're ghetto-er than a muuuufucka man!!!! You lot recognize some of these signs. Doesn't make you a bad person at all. Be proud! Drink your juice and eat your fried distortion northward' cheese sammitch with joy!!! At present go cash yo' gubment cheque and don't forget to pick up some more than Kool-Aid. You're almost out.*

*This is meant as satire. Really, if you didn't effigy that out by now, at that place is no help for yous.

Anyone can have ghetto ass tendencies.

Ghetto doesn't discriminate. It crosses all races and regions crusade information technology'southward fucking hood similar that!