Monday, December 27, 2010

Don't Judge a Girl By Her Underwear


My friend Jessica has always been a bit of a bitch.

A typical blonde chick from the suburbs, she had it all. Money, looks, a BMW, a great house, wonderful family, lots of friends, you name it. Unfortunately, she ended up thinking she was better than everyone else.

Jessica would shop at the nicest brand name places, from Abercrombie to American Eagle to Victoria's Secret. In fact, she shopped everywhere. Everywhere except at the one store at the very end of the mall. Goodwill.

Jessica HATED Goodwill and laughed at everyone who went in it. Not only that, she would occasionally make a trip to the mall just to pass by the store so that she could laugh at all the "poor black people and dirty Mexicans who shop there."

One time during sophomore year of high school Jessica made fun of a black girl because she shopped at Goodwill. Looking down at the poor girl in the most cruel, teasing way and not caring that the girl looked like she was about to cry, Jessica asked "Where do you get your clothes?"

"Uhh...Goodwill..."

"Ohhhh hahaha Bummer!!!! So what's it like to be poor?"

This was just one of many incidents where Jessica belittled other girls, mainly minorities, for not being as rich and spoiled as she was. She knew for a fact that she was rich. What she didn't know was that her privileged lifestyle was about to end.

In her first year of college, Jessica did not pass a single class. Not even yoga. And she took yoga twice, both semesters. She racked up $50,000 in debt from general tuition costs, failing classes, withdrawing from classes, buying and then losing textbooks, utilities, and rent. Her parents got sick of her bragging about how she was partying on Monday nights and cut her off financially. Not only that, her roommate kicked her out and her boyfriend broke up with her so she was without any source of money because Jessica refused to work since that was for "losers."

To reduce her debts and have some money on hand Jessica sold her BMW and was able to bring her debt down to $23,000. Better but still not great.

For Thanksgiving break, a much quieter and depressed Jessica came to visit us. She arrived with a friend who was more than eager to drop her off and leave. Although glad to see us, Jessica was almost crying when she told us about how difficult her life had become. Instead of spending outrageous amounts on clothes from Abercrombie and Victoria's Secret she now got everything from pants to panties at Goodwill and this morning, she was on her period and had to choose between buying food for breakfast and a pack of maxi pads. That's when she realized she didn't even have enough money for a pack of maxi pads so she had to lose her pride and use toilet paper like "some poor ass girl."

To cheer her up we decided to take her to the mall to visit some of her favorite stores. As we passed by Victoria's Secret, a bunch of black and hispanic girls were visible through the store windows.

Shocked and forgetting that life had changed, Jessica blurted out "WHAT ARE THEY DOING IN THERE??? THEY'RE TOO POOR TO SHOP THERE!!!!!"

My friend Emily looked like she was going to slap her and said "Umm.....Jessica???? Your panties came from Goodwill and you have toilet paper in your panties instead of a pad cuz you can't afford to buy a freaking pack of maxi pads!!!!!!!"

As Emily said this, the group of black and hispanic girls walked out of Victoria's Secret and heard everything. All of them burst out laughing and one black girl said "Oooh...Bummer!!!!!"

All Jessica could do was stare stupidly at the ground while biting her lip and frowning. No amount of her make-up could hide the color of her face which had turned to tomato red.




Here's Jessica over Thanksgiving Break. She ran out of jeans to wear and unlike in the past when she would just buy a new pair, ended up spending the day in her underwear since she was too lazy to do her laundry. 

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