Að ferðast
Það er margt fyndið að finna á Stuff White People Like. Þessi kafli, um árið sem mann dreymir alltaf um að taka sér frí, fannst mér sérlega góður:
When someone goes through a stressful experience they usually require some time off to clear their head, regain focus, and recover from the pain and suffering. Of course, in white culture these experiences are most often defined as finishing high school, making it through three years of college, or working for eleven months straight with only two weeks vacation and every statutory holiday (”they don’t count because I had to spend them with family.”)
Though you might consider finishing school or having a good job to be “accomplishments” many white people view them as burdens. As such, they can only handle them for so long before they start talking about their need to “take a year off” to travel, volunteer, or work abroad.
It is most common for the person taking the year off to use this time to travel (see Post #19 for reasons why). Generally, they will start off with a set amount of money that will use to travel for as long as possible. This explains why a white person with an $800 backpack will haggle with a poverty-stricken street vendor about a $2 dollar plate of food.
If you work with this person, be sure to give them a FAKE email address on their last day on the job or you will be inundated with emails about spiritual enlightenment and how great the food is compared to similar restaurants back home. Also, within the first five days following departure, this person will come up with the idea to write a book about their travel experience. Sadly, more books about mid-twenties white people traveling have been written than have been read.
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Regardless of how a white person chooses to spend their year off, they all share the same goal of becoming more interesting to other people. Sadly, the people who find these stories interesting are other white people who are politely listening until they can tell their own, more interesting story about taking a year off.
Thankfully, there is an enormous opportunity for personal gain. You see, whenever a white person takes a year off it opens up a valuable apartment, job opportunity or admissions slot. Consider it to be the most pretentious form of affirmative action.
Gott stöff!









Foreldrar pabba fluttu á Viðborð í Austur-Skaftafellssýslu í kringum 1930, að því er ég best veit. Húsið byggðu þau og bjuggu í því til ca. 1940, en pabbi gamli fæddist 1938. Húsið hefur nokkurn veginn staðið autt síðan þá og ætti ekki að fara framhjá neinum sem keyrir hringveginn. Útsýnið frá bæjardyrunum út Hornafjörðinn er alveg magnað.
Foreldrar múttu áttu heima á Strandgötu 23 á Eskifirði, sem hét Brautarholt áður en farið var að gefa götum sérstök nöfn. Mamma átti heima þarna fyrstu 23 árin. Merkilegt nokk þá þekkti húsfreyjan mömmu þegar ég var að mynda húsið og bauð okkur inn… get ekki sagt annað en að það hafi verið gaman að sjá gamla herbergið þeirrar gömlu!
Myndin hérna til hliðar er svo af Bakka á Eskifirði, en báðar ömmur mömmu og annar afinn áttu saman heima í þessu litla húsi. Guðjón og Halldóra, foreldrar mömmu, áttu semsagt bæði heima þarna þegar þau voru yngri og er það varla djarft að álykta sem svo að það hafi haft mikið um það að segja að þau giftust síðar meir… gaman að þessu.