We closed out Labor Day with the top signs that you are at a black cookout:
- Women have on heels and club dresses
- Your cousins first wife is at the cookout eventhough your cousin is there with his new wife because no one really likes the new wife
- Frankie Beverly is playing
- It starts late and when you finally get there none of the food is ready
- More drinks than food
- People are making take home plates before everyone gets something to eat
- Off-brand sodas
- People bring special food or expensive meat and want to place it on the grill and not give you any
- They hide the ribs and crabs until after everyone has already had a plate or certain people have left
- There is always an uncle that everyone keeps the kids away from, but nobody ever really knows …why
- Grilling out front and selling plates to neighbors
- People show up uninvited and bring five other uninvited people with them
- The “good” food is in the house and only “certain” people are told that it exists
- The drunk uncle in the dirty tee and no teeth is working the grill
- There is one white person there that no one is sure who they are but no one wants to be rude and ask
- There are three bowls of potato salad, but you really only want to eat one and everyone is asking “who made this?”
- A car is playing 92Q with the doors/trunk open … saving on a DJ
