chris_oh ([info]chris_oh) wrote,
@ 2008-08-12 02:17:00
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I usually hate when I hear people say they’re from Detroit when they’re not. The farther a way from the city the more likely I catch myself doing the same.

When I was San Francisco a women tried to get me to sponsor a child in a developing country. She told me that I could even choose the country that I wanted my money to go to. She asked where I was from and I told her Detroit. I wanted there was anyway I could sponsor a child from there. Instead I just said, “I appreciate the work you’re doing but I am not able to give any money right now.”



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[info]ilnipote
2008-08-12 01:29 pm UTC (link)
Whenever I move away I plan on telling people that I'm from the other side of the state of detroit. Also you should totally be able to sponsor a child from Detroit.

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[info]chris_oh
2008-08-12 07:17 pm UTC (link)
I don't know what to say to people like. I am glad their doing what they're doing (unless it's a scam) but they're so pushy.

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[info]iheartypsi
2008-08-12 02:31 pm UTC (link)
Yes, sponsor a Detroit child should have been an option. When I lived in Detroit I had to specify that I lived in DETROIT, not detroit. Kinda the inverse of what you said is true, when you say you live in Detroit, people in Michigan generally follow it up with some sort of probe that means "oh, which burb?"

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[info]chris_oh
2008-08-12 07:20 pm UTC (link)
That's because people are deflating the value of saying you're from Detroit. Some told me that everyone from Indiana says they're from Chicago. I thought that was funny.

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