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  • Play Acting (From the sands of time)

    While I was getting groceries I saw an incident (Customer was caught trying to shoplift and he pretended to be innocent) that reminded me of a group of SCs that I got back in the playoffs of 2006.

    Background.

    It is the playoffs of 2006, I am as usual at my spot for chains when a red Escalade pulls up containing 5 SCs. These SCs were your stereotype gangbanger except given the area I live in they're a tad soft but they fit the criteria for a rap video which was overly loud bass and the attitude to boot along with the clothes and they weren't white. There were 2 girls and 3 guys in the car.

    I am standing around waiting for the rush to come when the red Escalade pulls up trying to get through. They are oblivious to the fact that a row of barrels lined up next to each equals to don't go that way. I make the direction that tells them to go back. One of them screams from the car "MOVE THOSE BARRELS!!"

    "Can't move them, company policy." I state in monotone.

    "JUST MOVE THEM!" The person screams from the car.

    I restate policy again. One of the SCs come out of the Escalade. This SC is a girl who had the stereotype rap girl attitude complete with the bad English. She's also very short that her head reaches my stomach (I'm 6'2).

    She speaks "Why the hell you ain't moving those barrels?" (Remember bad English here)

    "I've told you already, company policy states that I can't let you through here."

    "Listen whitey, we payin' customers and we want to go through."

    "Can't."

    "FUCK YOU!" She walks back into the Escalade and it stays there determined to pass through.

    A few minutes later a guy walks out whose head reaches my neck.

    "Hey man, let us through all right I don't want to escalate this."

    I'm having a hard time not snorting at this prick. He reaches my neck, he looks like he'd be out of breath from just picking up a pencil and then there's me who is again, 6'2, muscular, and is trained in karate.

    "Like I've told you, you can't pass through (Mentally: You dumb fucks, is English your first language or not?)".

    "How much does it cost to buy you out?"

    "$500,000 (I usually said this as it got my point across)"

    Next thing I know he's thumbing through a wad of $100s. He can't be serious.

    "Look man, just take this and let us through."

    "Nope."

    At one point that dumbass girl who confronted me earlier is walking around.

    "Don't even try to move the barrels." Said with a hint of warning.

    "I CAN DO WHATEVER THE HELL I WANT!"

    "Except move the barrels."

    At this point I catch the same girl trying to move a barrel. I scream ''hey!" and run. I came around from an angle and I move the barrel. She pretends to fall down and starts screaming. Here's the thing. I was 5 feet away from her as I darted over there to stop this dumb bitch. She's crying wolf when a customer who was walking buy says
    "Nice try but no one's gonna believe you."

    Idiot thuggy boy is trying to get in my face, I've had enough and call security.

    Security comes down. They tell the thuggy losers to go the other way. Race card is pulled and the customer mentioned earlier gives his side. Security escorts them out. Happy Ending for me and I got the last laugh.
    The Grand Galactic Inquisitor hears all and sees all.

  • #2
    You should have called the cops after the racial remark.

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    • #3
      I say it's time for white people to start playing the race card. Hey, if everyone is so for equal oppurtunities for all, then whites should be able to play the race card as well. Fair is fair. And from what I've seen, I've seen way more racist black people than racist white people.
      It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
      ~~~H.L. Mencken

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      • #4
        No.

        PERIOD.

        "The Race Card" is played whenever a SC wants something, can't get it, and wants to win the arguement. REGAURDLESS OF WHAT RACE IT IS. White, Black, Brown, you name it... The history of Mankind, and America especially, has been littered with Racism and abuse. "The Race Card" is simply a tool of lazy, greedy people to play on the fact of those abuses. If you ARE one of those lazy, greedy people, please don't post here. I don't give a fig if you are GREEN.

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        • #5
          Just to remind other posters on the debate aspect of things: www.fratching.com.

          That is all.
          The Grand Galactic Inquisitor hears all and sees all.

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          • #6
            Okay, I guess it wasn't taken as I intended. It was meant as a joke, maybe off-colored, but a joke. Sorry.
            It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
            ~~~H.L. Mencken

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            • #7
              Aldous, I took it as a joke, and found it a little funny, at least.

              I am Native American, enough that it got me financial aid in college to cover my books, but not enough that I look it, especially given that other than that, I'm English and Dutch. When I'm feeling salty, I'll pull a pretend race card and give my friends crap about discriminating against me because I'm not white.
              "In the end I was the mean girl/or somebody's in between girl"~Neko Case

              “You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about.” ~William Stafford

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              • #8
                I'm white and that's something I do with my friends all the time, and they're white as well. Just when one is being lazy or whatever "You just don't want to hang out this weekend because I'm white!" and they'd respond "You just want to hang out with me because I look good in a dress." Did I mention that the friends I do this with are all guys. Straight guys. Yeah, we're a weird bunch.
                It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
                ~~~H.L. Mencken

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                • #9
                  We had someone who tried to play the white race card on the board last year. Nobody other than the mods saw her.

                  Turned out another long-term member had similar views and was a friend. Voluntarily lost the long-term member as well.

                  Rapscallion

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                  • #10
                    I often say to my friends, "Is it because I'm black?".
                    I am white. Not just white, PALE white. I-don't-get-out-a-lot white.
                    "We were put on this Earth to fart around, and don't let anyone ever tell you otherwise." -Kurt Vonnegut

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                    • #11
                      I have yet to have the race card pulled on me - total bummer. But my reply would be 'and I'm not?' to their stating the reason I wont let them do something is because they are Indian, black, Hispanic, etc. Their expression would be priceless.

                      Hell the German side of my family has been in the US since 1750, Goddess knows what other races are mixed in by now.
                      Figers are vicious I tell ya. They crawl up your leg and steal your belly button lint.

                      I'm a case study.

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                      • #12
                        Oh.. I am HARDLY a reactionary "PC" Nazi (and for you oversensitive types, NAZI got mainstreamed by Seinfeld. So there!!)

                        My best friend is a Black Muslim. He wasn't ALWAYS a Muslim, he was Christian when we were growing up together in NYC...Unless you count the time he made his OWN religion...

                        Then he got "Born Again" *shudder*..

                        THEN he joined the Nation of Islam...

                        Now he's a mainstream Muslim, his kids call me "Uncle Ray"... and ENFORCE the Uncle part come Birthday time...

                        During all these years we've known each other.. He STILL calls me "Nigga" this and "Nigga" that.. I have to correct him each time.. I'm WHITE TRASH DAMMIT!!!

                        (awaiting Mod correction in 3.. 2.. 1...)

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                        • #13
                          This reminds me of a conversation I heard while on the bus a couple of weeks back.

                          This guy was talking, loudly, on his cell phone in the back of the bus.

                          Basically, what I got from what I heard was that he was trying to find out if the person he was talking to was referring to a white guy or a black guy. He was saying, "is that yo' ni**ah or yo' homie?" repeatedly.

                          And that just confused me, because the one black guy I know well who talks ghetto even though he's really middle class calls my brother "ni**ah" even though my brother could be the poster boy for Aryans; blond hair, blue eyes, etc. I like to give him a hard time when he calls me "sister" 'cause it's fun to trip him up.

                          ^-.-^
                          Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others. - Dresden

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