To participate, copy and paste the list (below) into your blog, and bold the items that are true for you. Make your comments in italics.
Father went to college - “Son, I always came first in my class…….all the way from kindergarten”
Father finished college – “Son, I always came first in my class…….all the way from kindergarten”
Mother went to college – Medical college, (she was a cute nurse like in those WWII films) ………eeeeww! dude, that’s my mom.
Mother finished college – My dad wouldn’t have married her otherwise
Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor - My brother’s an attorney (we don’t talk anymore)
Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers -
Only the ones they taught me ha ha 
Had more than 50 books in your childhood home – Most of ‘em ‘borrowed’ and never returned
Had more than 500 books in your childhood home – Didn’t quite make it to 500, ran out of friends. Wait! do my mom’s notebooks from medical school count?
Were read children’s books by a parent – Mainly about ogres who ate up bad kids
Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18 – 2 Swimming lessons, the birds & the bees lessons, why billy goats are dangerous lessons, how-to run-fast-from-an-angry neighbour-whose-ochyard-you’ve-raided- lessons, what’ll happen when mom told dad I’d been bad lessons…… Oh yeah, I had lots of lessons
Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18 – see above
The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively – um, is George Bush EVER portrayed positively?
Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs – College loan that I’m still paying off.
Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs
Went to a private high school
Went to summer camp – Christian camp, where my bunkmate wet his bed every night
Had a private tutor before you turned 18 - had lots of ‘em, that’s how my speiling gotso gud
Family vacations involved staying at hotels – grandma never owned any hotels
Your clothing was bought new before you turned 18. – mainly but there were a few hand-me-downs
Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them – are you kidding?
There was original art in your house when you were a child – mine
Had a phone in your room before you turned 18. – I almost didn’t have adoor
You and your family lived in a single family house – until my dad passed on
Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home – Still standing when I last looked
You had your own room as a child – shared it with my sweaty, grungy brothers
Participated in an SAT/ACT prep course – what’s that? some kind of counter-terrorism drill?
Had your own TV in your room in High School – my High school inspired ‘prison break’
Owned a mutual fund or IRA in High School or College –
had a mutual friend in the IRA Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16 – Flew from the top of tree once though
Went on more than one cruise with your family – Yeah, a Tom Cruise film fest
Your parents took you to museums and/or art galleries as you grew up. – I threw tantrums just to see dinosaur skeletons
You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family – It’s them who were unaware, I had to chop the wood and bring it in
The list is based on an exercise developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University. The exercise developers ask that if you participate in this blog game, you acknowledge their copyright.
