r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/Itscooljazz ☑️ • 2d ago
HNIC of making sure that frozen chicken was thawing
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u/HungAndTheRestless 2d ago
Walking to the store with a note stating what type of cigarettes my mom wanted and what numbers (lotto) to play.
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u/ebbiibbe 2d ago
This was mine. Walking to the store with a note for Cigs, beer, and Lottabody lotion for my grandma on Saturday 😂
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u/nuttylou 2d ago
Your grandma a freak
How she doin?
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u/Digita1B0y 2d ago
Oh damn. White guy here....was my first job a black job? NGL, my old man smoked Newports. The only difference is that dad let me take the station wagon. I was 12. (In my old man's defense, it was rural North Carolina, and there was only about 100 foot of paved road, and we had been driving since I was 9).
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u/ebbiibbe 1d ago
Driving to the store at 12 to get Newports is the top tier of early black jobs.
I used to drive at that age too but only on our family land and my dad would let me drive is parking lots. I could drive manual transmission better back then than now.
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u/dustmybroom88 1d ago edited 1d ago
Does a note for Benson & Hedges Menthol (the green ones!) count? Sometimes also having to bring back that bigass awkward Carlo & Rossi wine
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u/LupineSzn 1d ago
A note for B&H?! Is your dad James Bond lol
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u/dustmybroom88 1d ago
My mom. B&H Menthols. If they were out, I had to get Kools… or some brand I think that was called Chic or something
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u/HungAndTheRestless 1d ago
THIS IS WHAT MY MOM WAS SMOKING LOLLLL THE GREEN PACK
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u/Salt_Cabinet7001 1d ago
My dad taught me to drive at 5/6 by sitting me on his lap in empty parking lots and letting me tell him what pedal to push. He would get out to run inside stores and tell me “if the car starts rolling step on the brake til I get back”. He would send me in the gas station to pay sometimes, while he pumped gas, and then we’d leave pretty quick. I realized later he was shorting them a $ or 2 at a time and we were leaving before they could stop him 😂 I miss that man RIP
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u/blacklite911 ☑️ 1d ago
Saaaame lol. We would get those quarter juices and some candy or chips with the change
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u/IntelligentDesign77 ☑️ 1d ago
You got notes? I had to memorize mine. A tin of railroad mills snuff, and Newport shorts in a box.
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u/MF-Sol 2d ago edited 2d ago
First black job was not losing the house key because somebody would “break in, steal our stuff and kill us” if it did 😭
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u/BlackberryOne7065 1d ago
I dropped my key down the sewer drain and my aunt cussed me out 10mins straight about someone coming in the house lol I was like who??? Ninja turtles cuz that key gone and the address isn’t engraved on it 😂
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u/Pure-Drawer-2617 1d ago
I presume we all got a disciplinary for asking “how will they know which house the key belongs to?”
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u/texasproof 1d ago
Bro what was parents obsession with this idea?? I was always like “but how would they know which house the key goes to??”
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u/No_Stock_7201 1d ago
They always thought whoever found the keys was finna come STRAIGHT to the crib lmao
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u/_PM_ME_YOUR_FORESKIN ☑️ 2d ago
Getting yelled at for changing the channel when the game was on even though your ass was obviously sleeping.
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u/Sharcbait 2d ago
Dad's don't sleep, they were just resting their eyes.
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u/ChugHuns 1d ago
Damn ain't that the truth. Tbh I say the same shit now and I'm not even a dad lol.
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u/AwkwardLawyer706 2d ago
My parents calling me from the other room to get them the remote that was right next to them.
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u/itsSRSblack 2d ago
Fuck, I just posted this. I swear to God that shit is one of the reasons I have an unconscious feeling of dread when I hear my mom call my name.
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u/2creams1sugar ☑️ BHM Donor 1d ago
First and Middle name? I’m in trouble. Edit: word
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u/burkabecca 1d ago
That's why the first and middle names are so important - for the threats called through the house!
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u/Agile_Tea_2333 2d ago
Lol I do this shit to my kids all the time. Them tell them it builds character.
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u/JgL07 1d ago
Being used as the remote because my siblings lost it and they wanted to switch the channel.
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u/Upstairs_Wishbone_88 2d ago
Running down to the corner store to pick up a sixer and some smokes for the adults at the family function because they knew homeboy working there wouldn’t think twice about handing that to a child.
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u/purplearmored 2d ago
Writing the score for dominoes
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u/Mistavez 2d ago
Under rated job. You got to sit at the table and listen to all the shit talking you normally got shooed out the room for
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u/SlackerDS5 2d ago
You had to learn the lingo too, through all the trash talk and domino slamming. Took me a minute to figure out what ”CHRISTINE! Yo momma callin you” meant.
“Boy put fifteen down on the board. Don’t you be pencil whippin nobody.”
I was 7.
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u/PermaBanComingSoon 2d ago
Picking up trash and putting up chairs and tables after family functions.
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u/imnotkeepingit 2d ago
Making all of the bootleg CDs/DVDs
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u/pimp_juice2272 1d ago
Oh so you were the dude with the van around town. I saw so many movies thanks to you
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u/Fit-Rub-2620 2d ago
Taking the meat out the freezer before my mama got home
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u/olliekuro ☑️ 2d ago
Way too many times that chicken went directly onto our hot water heater because I’d forget to take it out when I got home from school. “why is this package warm?” 🤔
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u/pimp_juice2272 1d ago
Lol never understood this. You can thaw a whole pack in minutes with just a small stream of running water and a pan. Did they not know this or did they just want us to build character?
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u/ebbiibbe 1d ago
Your mom let you run the water bill up like that? 😂 I thaw meat out like that all the time now. My mom would have flipped over that kind of laziness when I was a kid.
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u/pimp_juice2272 1d ago
Hell no she didn't. But I also didn't know about this until I was older. Could've saved a lot of time. And it only needs a little flow. Less than a gallon probably
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u/B_Werking 1d ago
*taking the meat out the freezer right before she pulls up from work because you forgot to take it out when she called on her lunch break 🙃
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u/ReallyReal4 2d ago
Making the executive decision amongst my siblings of staying outside when it was “stay in, or out!”
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u/813_4ever ☑️ 1d ago
As a fellow elder cousin I too had this hard job. A lot rode on your shoulders at 3pm…do we stay out? There’s water…but we can go in and get a juice and be stuck in for the rest of the day. I salute you 🫡
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u/womanistaXXI 1d ago edited 1d ago
That’s why on my street a lady that had had no children distributed water and lemonade to us kids. Otherwise it’d be ‘you come inside, you stay inside’. All the mothers had this mantra and we knew that if someone went in the house, they’d be gone.
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u/DJMagicHandz 2d ago
Becoming the family mechanic when my father was in the Persian gulf for 6 months. And he would guide me over a shitty international phone call.
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u/CocoaSaidWhat 2d ago
Picking a good Playlist to put on at the July 4th cookout when I was 12. Never been so stressed.
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u/Chanela1786 ☑️ 2d ago
Lmao DIABOLICAL. You know they're just gonna complain and rearrange it how they want.
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u/pimp_juice2272 1d ago
Electric Slide, I wanna dance with somebody, step in the name of love. Now that you're older, you can play This is how we do it and Back that azz up.
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u/TheMoorNextDoor ☑️ 2d ago
Helping the old man that be mowing lawns in the neighborhood in order for him to cut our yard for free.
Cleaning to music on a Saturday or Sunday.
Getting my black ass inside before the street lights came on.
Making sure the dishes was always washed and doing laundry.
Getting bootleg dvds with my brother and making sure we had movies to watch.
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u/Salt_Cabinet7001 1d ago
Saturday morning we got woke up by the stereo and that meant it was cleaning time.
And getting your ass beat if the street light came on and you weren’t ON the front steps
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u/Living-Advice3043 2d ago
sitting in the car with my cousins and making sure they don’t get out while my aunt was in the club. 😂
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u/No-Bat-7253 2d ago
Reading all these comments, I can’t even remember my real first black job😂 we been overworked since the beginning! Lmao
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u/itsSRSblack 2d ago edited 2d ago
Going into my mom's room to hand her the remote from the other side of the room.
Edit: switching this up cuz it was taken.
Having to go into restaurants to put our name on the waiting list while my mom found a parking spot. Houston's and Olive Garden ain't worth all that trouble.
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u/cailian13 1d ago
Having to go into restaurants to put our name on the waiting list while my mom found a parking spot
swap that out for dad usually, but wow this is a memory I didn't know was in there until I read this. it makes me oddly happy 😊
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u/waxinarc 2d ago
Making sure my pops didn't burn the chicken -- he'd put em on the grill but then go back and watch Hercule Poirot. If you don't know what that is, it's an old black n white fictional detective series on his computer. I'd casually get up and flip the chicken a few minutes each time. By the time he'd realized he forgot the chicken, I said don't worry it's done and it ain't burnt. My mom would be hella mad if the chicken is burnt. That and the beef ribs. She'd be heated!
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u/Firm_Engineering_265 2d ago
My first black job was not confusing the difference between my mother and Boo Boo the Foolish
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u/Exotic_Page4196 2d ago
Going to retrieve the belt when it was time to catch that ass whipping I earned myself.
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u/Plus25Charisma 1d ago
Man, my dad used to make me go pick which one I was going to get whooped with
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u/Exotic_Page4196 1d ago
I wish I woulda had a chance to pick lol. He had a special leather one with the buckle removed lol.
Runner up jobs include “not running in and out” and “closing that damn screen door”
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u/InternalGood1015 1d ago
My mom had a removable purse strap. I would get my ass whopped on site that I earned 🤣🤣🤣
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u/bebop1065 ☑️ 2d ago
My first black job was changing the TV channel for when momma and her friends started smoking those cigarettes that smelled sweet when you lit them the first time.
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u/Yikes_My_Toe 2d ago
holding the gel while my mom manhandled my scalp
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u/InternalGood1015 1d ago
Heavy on the mandandling. Now she tells me I'm heavy handed. Ma'am, I got it from you lol
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u/SortovaGoldfish 1d ago
I can't remember mine, but my littlest siblings got the same entry position:
Collect the plastic grocery bags after all the big people unload and sort the groceries and put them all in one bag for later. Additional duties may include but are not limited to: putting the toilet paper under everyone's sink.
Next position: kool-aid stirrer.
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u/BluBeams 2d ago
My first black job was going down to Food Land with a note and 5 bucks to get my mom a pack of cigs and a candy bar when I was 6...
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u/Dependent_Work1597 2d ago
Hiding my dad and uncle’s drink whenever we get pulled over by the police 😂😂😂
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u/kalisto3010 2d ago edited 1d ago
First Black Job was riding my Bike to the Store with a Note from My Mother to buy her Cigarettes.
EDIT: This was actually possible in the 80's, would never fly today.
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u/hazeldazeI 1d ago
Or just go to the restaurant that had a cigarette machine. Didn’t even need a note
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u/246lehat135 1d ago
I’m Mexican so my first “Hispanic Job” was holding the steering wheel for my Tio while he rolled a cigarette lol.
I was also the designated kid who got beers out of the cooler for the adults at family parties.
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u/CryResponsible2852 2d ago
Running to the store to buy cigarettes on a big Wheel
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u/Flat_Wash5062 1d ago
I'm curious, is whoever sent you to get cigs still smoking?
I'm the only one in my family who smokes now but I wasn't alive when you could just send someone with a note.
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u/Happy-North-9969 2d ago
At the football games on Friday nights, my dad and his friends would send me down to the concession stand to buy cups of Coca-Cola, and have me drink about half of each one so they could use the other half as a mixer for the E&J.
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u/FiPhillips1999_SW 1d ago
Making sure the stack of Jet and Ebony magazines were stocked in the bathrooms for some light reading.
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u/olliekuro ☑️ 2d ago
Not squealing on my dad because it was easier to get one over on mom, but not by me.
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u/AfternoonPast3324 2d ago
Standing outside and turning the TV antenna pole slowly until my mom or sister yelled “it’s clear” out the window
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u/TheLameness 2d ago
Going to get a pack of cigarettes from the corner store. They used to sell them to 10 year olds
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u/OptimistPrime527 1d ago
Taking out the other ladies hair who was also waiting to get her hair done by my stylist. 🙄🙄🙄🙄
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u/InternalGood1015 1d ago
My auntie had me washing the wash cloths and sweeping at her shop as she was working on her other clients
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u/pimp_juice2272 1d ago
Having to get up from all the way in the living room, while comfortably watching my show, my mom's bedroom turn off a light switch that was 3 feet away from my her. I almost took up smoking cigarettes to calm my nerves.
2nd job was killing spiders for my aunt who was deathly afraid of them. The pay was amazing! Like $5-$10 per kill. Shit had me wanting to breed a spider farm just for her visits.
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u/samson44465 1d ago
Mine was making sure I didn’t answer the door for NO ONE after school when my parents were at work.
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u/WolflordBrimley 1d ago
Pops handed me a Tupperware bowl and told me to go catch the mouse behind the couch
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u/My_cat_is_ur_Dad 1d ago
Sitting in the corner at my uncle’s house parties, bopping to ‘The Parliament Funkadelic’ tracks, and not asking questions about that smell of burning leaves or why people are putting their keys up their noses.
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u/My_cat_is_ur_Dad 1d ago
Also rehearsing my stories to tell my mother when I got sent home after the weekend. “What did we do? Nun, played basketball and made art.” Knowing damn good and well I was actually at the Cambridgeport version of Studio 54.
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u/TurnoverFancy6920 1d ago
Mixing simple cocktails at West Indian parties and sipping it to make sure the mixture was right. At like 8
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u/813_4ever ☑️ 1d ago
Cleaning the grill for my pops. Told my homie I wanted to learn how to grill…he said ok bet. Told me the first thing I needed to learn was how to clean the grill 😂 miss my nigga man
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u/AliciaDawnD ☑️ 1d ago
Being called from the main floor to bring my brother something to the basement, taking the laundry to the laundromat, defrosting the meat for my mom, and watching soap operas with him during summer vacation just in case he missed something, I could recap it.🧍🏾♀️
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u/Yuri-temporada 1d ago
When I was young , it was being a phone booth for my older brothers in jail.
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u/ThatboyMjay3207 1d ago
My first black job was being a Instacart for my relatives when I’d visit them in the country. They’d send me to the store with a list of stuff to get and what I couldn’t pay for they’d give me anyway because they always got paid back and turns out, they were family too. Lmfao.
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u/Ambitious-Display702 1d ago
Watching all the kids while my aunties went to the club. Was an unpaid job of course lol
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u/SuchFaithlessness335 1d ago
Well I'm a white girl but my 1st black job was driving to another county to buy beer for my 2nd dad because we lived in a dry county
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u/durants ☑️ 1d ago
HNIC?
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u/SnowDoodles150 1d ago
Head N**** In Charge.
I can't spell out that second word but I think that's enough context to fill in the blanks lol.
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u/stellarinterstitium 1d ago
My first Black job was washing dishes even though we had a dishwashing machine. Stepmom showed up, and all of a sudden the dishwasher was fine to use...for her.
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u/noletex107 1d ago
I was the bartender at 13 years old at a family reunion. I forgot to water down the drinks, had unc and aunty 🔥AF. Needless to say my bar was empty by 9:30.
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u/Pedrosbarro 1d ago
I'm dying reading all the responses. I'm not black, but apparently I've had all of the first black jobs, except for the dominoes one and wearing gym shorts.
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u/toolsoftheincomptnt ☑️ 1d ago
Can’t recall exactly but pretty sure mine was to get the “roller bag” for my mom so she could prep her hair for slumber.
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u/Itchy_Wealth5973 1d ago
My first black job.. Peeling the potatoes and all of the miscellaneous vegetables those three days before thanksgiving. Watching the cakes in the oven and making sure nobody runs near the stove and ruins them on day 1. Tasting the spoon. Washing all of the dishes & telling momma what’s missing after tasting the unbaked dressing before it goes in the oven 😂😂😭
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u/DGVega93 1d ago
Babysitting my younger Cousins so my older cousins can turn up with each other at the family functions
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u/vera214usc ☑️ 1d ago
Does shelling peas or shucking corn count? That's the earliest job I can remember
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u/DependentMedium7706 1d ago
Driving the car home at 11, when my mother got too drunk at the function.
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u/sea_319_carnivore 1d ago
Closing the garage door and running under it because the remote was broken
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u/IntelligentDesign77 ☑️ 1d ago
Buying cigarettes for my uncle and snuff for my grandmother at the corner store. They always let me keep the change, which I promptly spent on penny candy!
I was 6! No note or anyways required, the clerk just handed me cigs or snuff upon request.
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u/KGreen100 1d ago
Going to the store on the corner to get everything my mother forgot to get the first time. I pointed out to her that it might be a good idea to make a list next time and... well, I never suggested that again.
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u/leelee3589 21h ago
My dear dear mom thought it was a good idea to bus my sister and I out to a predominantly white grade school. So my first job was teaching white kids and teachers not to fuck with me.
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u/OlympianBattleFish ☑️ 2d ago
Going to tell my siblings and my cousins that my aunt said “bring yall muhfuckin asses inside”. I received the pass to cuss when I was deputized.