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Tonight, I bought groceries at my neighborhood Fiesta Mart. At the register, I pulled out my ATM card to pay, and the Latina cashier chuckled and nodded at my duct-tape wallet, saying "Everybody's got those these days. It's like the style."
"Oh, a duct tape wallet. I've been using them for quite a while, but I just made a new one."
"All these people keep coming in here with them." Wondering about who all these Fiesta shoppers are with their duct-tape wallets, I asked, "Is it white kids like me, or it it really everyone?"
I was a little worried that my question would come off as a way of asserting white privilege, but she understood what I was asking.
"It's the white folks," she said, laughing, "Only the white folks."

Posted by McChris at December 9, 2005 07:33 PM
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Of course it's only the white kids. We're the only ones who make it a point of fashion to look like we can't afford nice things. Or regular things, anyway.

And, though I am proud of you for having carried your duct tape wallets for as long as you have, allow me to point out once again that I was meticulously crafting and carrying duct tape wallets (complete with clear driver license windows) in 1998, you n00b.

Posted by: Erich at December 12, 2005 01:21 PM

I'm a white guy, and I don't have a wallet made of duct tape. Is this a deficiency of taste on my part or of whiteness?

Posted by: House_of_Dave at December 16, 2005 05:36 PM

Well, it appears you don't live in Austin, so I imagine you're exempt from following the white-guy trends here.

Posted by: McChris at December 16, 2005 05:50 PM
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