20 Things You Probably Do if You Were Raised Right

Some of you all are savages. I ain’t talking about your parents (or your mama, since that’s the stinger), but some of you weren’t raised right. I discover this fact almost daily.

This morning, I watched somebody who clearly wasn’t raised right put the lives of myself and at least 10 other people at risk at a gas station. Who cares if the likelihood of being blown to smithereens because a savage put gas in her car with the engine running is small? The possibility exists. There are YouTube clips and I’ve seen Zoolander several times. Shit happens, yo. That bumper sticker isn’t just cute—it’s real life, fam.

Now, some of you were clearly raised right. You never get the credit because you just live your life the right way. You are appreciated. You’re the equivalent of a student getting good grades; people only remember if you get an F. I got a D-plus once in college in my Differential Equations class. Do you think my parents noticed the A-plus in Econometrics? No.

But you know what? Tupac cares even if nobody else cares. I see you out here living your best life, making your parents look good. Here is a nondefinitive, nonexhaustive list of 20 things you probably do if you were raised right:

1. turn off your car when you get gas
   
2. wipe your feet before you walk in the house
   
3. wipe the seatie if you sprinkle when you tinkle
   
4. put the toilet seat down after tinkling
   
5. rinse your dishes off when you put them in the sink
   
6. don’t double park and ruin two parking spaces
   
7. throw your trash in the trash can and if you miss playing trashketball, you always pick up your trash and put it in
   
8. don’t litter
   
9. don’t leave the piss-me-off amount of orange juice/Kool-Aid/soda/milk/libation
   
10. recycle when it’s an option
    
11. leave a bathroom toilet stall between yourself and the person already in a stall when possible
    
12. wash your hands when you finish using the restroom
    
13. wash the dishes you used when staying at somebody else’s house for free
    
14. tip at appropriate times
    
15. properly dispose of condoms and condom wrappers
    
16. don’t buy Play-Doh (or toys that make noise or make messes for kids who aren’t yours)
    
17. attempt to write legibly when other people have to read something you literally wrote
    
18. give up your seat for the elderly
    

1. hold doors open for people walking right behind you
   
2. acknowledge folks who let you in front of them in traffic with a quick hand wave of appreciation