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Originally posted by Fizzgig
I had a black male aquaintence in Texas...just friends, anyhow he was always after my ass so one day I turned to him and said "Gawd! What is it with *you people* and big asses?"
Well I seriously didn't mean anything racist by it but he didn't like the "you people" much - never talked to him again.
Damn those people sure are touchy!
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OMG, you just reminded me of this time I was taking a Greyhound bus with my two oldest boys. We got off the bus at one of the scheduled stops to grab some food and the line was so long we didn't get to get anything because the stop was only 15 minutes and the line was like 30 minutes long.
We went to get back on the bus and there were two buses with the city we were going to on the sign and they were parked right beside each other, so I asked one of the drivers, "This is the right bus, isn't it?"
He glared at me and said, "What? You think we all look alike or something?"
My face turned SO red because that wasn't it at all. I didn't know if he was our driver or not. Honestly, I hadn't paid any attention to what he looked like at all. In fact, I'm not sure I had even noticed what race he was because he got onto the bus after we did and we were sitting in the very back of the bus. The only thing that really made me realize he was even male was his voice on the speaker making announcements. It was a crowded bus and I had two loud kids with me (small children). I swear that if the driver had been a skinny old white lady I would have asked if it was the right bus if there was a fat, bald chinese man standing there.
I really felt horrible that I'd offended him, but I knew there was no way I could explain it to him, so we just got on the bus without saying anything.
