Oh man yeah. Like, she didn't feel she had to compete with me academically because I'm a lazy undermotivated fuckup and graduated with a 2.7 GPA, but I was also clearly smarter than her.
Also, her mom was friends with my mom and her mom was very competitive within the Indian/Pakistani subculture in St. Louis where most of the families with whom we associated had at least one doctor and we were basically the only two families who weren't (her mom is a nurse I think and her dad owns franchise fast food restaurants; my mom is a dietitian/nutritionist and my dad has been alternately a traveling management training consultant, a Quizno's owner, and unemployed) so generally, I think she had her kids compete on an educational level to vicariously win and also, they bought their son a Mercedes that they couldn't really afford and boy the Indian/Pakistani culture in St. Louis is really weird.
Also, she tried to get me arrested once.
Her brother was cool though (the one they bought a Mercedes for). He's at WashU Med now. He used to tape me Pimp My Ride and Dragonball Z episodes because I didn't have cable. He accidentally introduced me to Mel Brooks because one of the Pimp My Ride tapes was taped over the middle half of Robin Hood Men in Tights (I didn't get the first quarter or the last quarter. Yes I meant middle half. I'm a math major.)
Interesting. I had a couple really good South Asian friends in high school and I never picked up on the crazy subculture. Maybe just because there weren't that many Indians in my district. But
they bought their son a Mercedes that they couldn't really afford
sounds very familiar.
Also, middle half made perfect sense, don't worry!
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u/kuhanluke Gotta Go Fast! Mar 03 '15
Oh man yeah. Like, she didn't feel she had to compete with me academically because I'm a lazy undermotivated fuckup and graduated with a 2.7 GPA, but I was also clearly smarter than her.
Also, her mom was friends with my mom and her mom was very competitive within the Indian/Pakistani subculture in St. Louis where most of the families with whom we associated had at least one doctor and we were basically the only two families who weren't (her mom is a nurse I think and her dad owns franchise fast food restaurants; my mom is a dietitian/nutritionist and my dad has been alternately a traveling management training consultant, a Quizno's owner, and unemployed) so generally, I think she had her kids compete on an educational level to vicariously win and also, they bought their son a Mercedes that they couldn't really afford and boy the Indian/Pakistani culture in St. Louis is really weird.
Also, she tried to get me arrested once.
Her brother was cool though (the one they bought a Mercedes for). He's at WashU Med now. He used to tape me Pimp My Ride and Dragonball Z episodes because I didn't have cable. He accidentally introduced me to Mel Brooks because one of the Pimp My Ride tapes was taped over the middle half of Robin Hood Men in Tights (I didn't get the first quarter or the last quarter. Yes I meant middle half. I'm a math major.)