I may have discovered a new race card!!

[jerkface11]

Last night during our dinner rush one of my employees told me this had just happened to her.
E=employee
CRSL=crazy racist? salad lady

E:Ok Ma'am here's your salad silverware and dressing
CRSL: Thank you

5 minutes later CRSL is back at the register looking annoyed.

CRSL: Can I have a white fork and knife these are black.
E: Black is all we have.
CRSL: grrrr I guess I'll use them then (leaves in a huff)

Honestly it's the strangest complaint I've ever heard.

[Evil Queen]

So many things wrong with this woman...

[Aethian]

The hell is her problem? I thought plastic was plastic.

[South Texan]

She might subscribe to the thinking my grandmother had. She had been brought up to believe that the color white meant cleanliness because (she really said this) "germs can hide on dark things but not white because white is sanitary." Maybe it comes from seeing all bandages, first aid stuff, nurses' uniforms, lab coats and other medical things in white.

For years my mother would not allow any colored underwear for her kids because of that philosophy.

[Aethian]

Well that makes sense...but I don't think thats where this lady was going with it.

[jerkface11]

Honestly my stupid tolerance was at a low point. So I didn't track her down to find out what the problem was. We just decided she was so thouroughly racist that even plastic had to be white.

[Whyme]

Some sort of odd OCD thing? Her utensils must be white? I wonder if beige is acceptable?

[mattm04]

What about a clear plastic fork, or real silverware?

[marasbaras]

Yeah, may have been an OCD thing.

[friendofjimmyk]

I agree it may have been some OCD/germaphobia thing. However, in most of those cases - severe cases - those folks carry their own utencils.

[Rappunzill]

I'm going to chime in with the OCD vote, but say that her silverware had to match.