| | I would just like to open up by saying, I am NOT really a racist. Thats is to say whenever I see a person of a certain race, dressed to stereotype, acting to stereotype, I say "what an ass", but it isn't until after his actions that I judge him. Note, this person could be white (my race) and I would STILL say, "what an ass" if he acted a fool...
SO,
2 separate instances of inconsideration and using race as a "i'm allowed to" card. First happened just yesterday, I went into burger king to pick up some dinner and the drive thru was packed with cars, didn't have the kid with me, so decided I'm well enough to go inside. If you have kids, you know what a hassle it can be to get them out of the car and back in, especially if its just a short trip. So, anyways, I go inside and the place is a ghost town minus a feel diners. I approach the counter (which involved following their lay out which weaves you around) and when I approach there is a 3-4 year old girl (mexican, and this does matter) who is trying to get the cashiers attention (also mexican). finally the cashier acknowledges her and all she wanted was a cup for water, and then I see an older mexican man approach from the direction of the drinks (not walking through the line) and approach the cashier. I immediately just assume he was with the little girl, being the same race, but NO, he whispers to her in spanish (loud enough I could tell the language) and orders a whopper meal and hands her money discretely. as you can tell, I had NO problem with the little girl, or if that man also wanted a cup of water, I don't think you need to wait for something so small, but the audacity of this man to assume because the cashier is spanish looking that he gets "cuts"? He KNEW he was in the wrong, else he wouldn't have been so sneaking whisper and passing the money. Thankfully, they messed up his order or something and my food came out faster than his...it STILL upset me.
secondly, a woman at McDonalds, maybe 3 months ago. I went in for a McGriddle breakfast, and I'm waiting in line, like everyone else. It's the woman's in front of me turn to order and she looks at the lady, who happened to be black, and then peer around the back of the restaurant. she asks the girl, "espanol?" and the woman says, "no...nobody here does right now," sure enough the back was whites and blacks working (a rare sight for no spanish speakers working the back of a McDonalds, but I digress), and the manager was a portly black man and the other cashier was a spanish looking teen, who didn't look like he knew spanish either. The woman throws a hissy fit. instead of trying to communicate with the people, she is going off in spanish about how nobody in the restaurant speaks spanish and all she wanted was a hamburger happy meal, and they we're only serving breakfast. It was one of those situations where not even the customers spoke spanish and everyone was looking at her funny. I ended up ordering and don't know exactly what happened with her.
Now, I would just like to say, I'm not racist and understand some of the older generations who come to the country it is harder for them to learn english at an older age. I do have problems with the ones who come over illegally and complain about nobody speaking spanish for them, or the ones who flat out refuse to even learn a few words to get by. And before anyone goes off about how USA doesn't have an "official" language, we do have an official-unofficial business language. It is to be understood that the universal business language, even in the whole world, is English; if you want anything anywhere it is more likely there is at least one person who speaks english no matter where in the world you are.
I don't want to end this on a sour note, so I'll leave you with something that really surprised me. I was at wal-mart a day or 2 ago, and these 2 skateboarding kids were sitting by the side door (I don't use the auto doors at my wal-mart, I always park near the side door. Anyways, I'm heading out the door with my little girl, carrying her, and its cold out so I'm holding her tight. the kids head out the door the same time I do, and ONE of them had the consideration to look back and hold the door for me. I do have to say, I initially judge these 2 kids because I saw them crawling on the ground near the coke machines and checking the phone for coins, plus their attitude to one another. I also got to hear the exchange after I walked out which was,
kid who held the door: "dude, you don't pay attention, the door almost hit that dude and his kid"
kid 2:"he can't open a door himself?"
kid 1: "you're a douche..."
on a personal note, UPS upsets me some times, they have been sitting on my package now for 2 days almost 3, arrived at their warehouse sunday night. I ordered something from Newegg.com (computer parts website) and they are usually good at shipping, but I ordered on the 31st and they were doing inventory on the 1st and 2nd, so the package didn't ship until saturday night. I applaud UPS for picking it up on saturday and freighting it from Nashville, TN to Houston, TX in 1 day (24 hour period) but that they have been sitting on it for 2 full days upsets me. I have seen the UPS truck in front of my house the past 2 days, just tempting me...they were both times packages for the neighbor across the way :(
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