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in their own words... 17 Jul 2008 06:00 am
Odd.
After an early morning of sweltering humidity that made my curly hair straight in about 10 minutes (and no, I’m not exaggerating), I pulled into the gas station somewhere between Surf Camp and Visitation. I was sticky and rushed and flustered. I grabbed a pack of bottled waters from the cooler and dropped them on the counter. The attendant looked me up head to toe and said,
“Well honey…I’d just give my right tittie to have hair as purty as yours.”
5 days later I’m still trying to decide what just to say to something like that.
in their own words... 10 Jul 2008 12:16 pm
Stupid.
I was at the grocery store in our small town on the Fl/Ga border. In front of me in line was a young mother…white and blond with a little girl dark and curly.
The store clerk (young, blond, teenager who has worked in the store for a few years): “Oh! She’s so cute! Is she yours?”
The mother: “Well, yes, she’s mine, but she’s adopted from Guatamala.” Starts to ask baby where she’s from, saying, “guata” and the baby finished with “mala”.
The clerk: “Are you going to tell her when she’s older that she’s not yours?”
The mother: “Well I guess she’ll take a look at me and figure it out. But we already teach her about where she’s from.” And the “guata” with the baby’s “mala” question repeated.
The clerk: “Yeah…I guess I’d better make sure I get a baby from HERE cuz I’m so white!”
The mother: “Yeah…you’d better”.