OMG some people!!!!

[MelissaFlipski]

... Loss of words after which I reply, still in my nice sweet customer service voice since I just got off work "Oh, I'm sorry, I don't feel comfortable sacrificing my own comfort just because you're racist" (I have a knack for not thinking through some things before they come out of my mouth)

I can't believe people still think it's okay to act that way!

You don't have a knack for thinking things through??? Are you kidding?? You thought on your feet faster than I ever could have. I am glad you didn't censor yourself. That was an AWESOME response. You rock!!

BTW, that does suck that people are like that and think it's OK to be like that and assume that other people are like that. It all sucks! Forget the purse wacking, I hope that you-know-what has a nervous break down or something. She'd deserve it. OK... sorry, I got all hot around the collar. That isn't nice to wish a nervous break down on someone, but really...!

[slartibartfast]

Brilliant! You should have charged the old hag with assault. :-D

[Argentra]

.......OMG! I just can't believe that. You expect that sort of thing to still happen with older folk around the southern states...but ONTARIO??? Gimmie a break...

If there's one thing I can't stand in people, it's close-mindedness! All this 'I don't care to know what kind of person they are, all I see is their color/sex/religious affiliation'... drives me up the walls!

Oh, and that response of yours was PERFECT! Just what should have been said. I'm sorry the old nutcase got you with her purse tho. I've had a few interesting encounters on buses, but luckily none ended in physical violence. Most of them, however, do include the other party blabbering on non-stop to me...so be lucky she left and didn't start lecturing/preaching to you.

Oh, and Just in case anyone cares to know, the encounters I've had are all based on the nice Celtic pentacle I wear at all times.

[Earl]

I could be wrong about this but it sounds like that old lady is in need of a Falcon Punch!

Yeah!

[SteelerFreak89]

Earl thats freakin classic! I laughed out loud on that one!

Actually I had a poor situation in Ocean City, MD for our high schools senior week. (I'm very diverse btw) But when some of my white friends found out that some of my black and arabic friends were staying as well they all packed up and left to go home. They would rather go home then spend a week of relaxing and having fun. They said "We can trust people like them." I asked why and they said "My grandparents wouldn't approve". It makes me sick. Needless to say, I lost a lot of "friends" that week.

[jdmls88]

ocean city sucks I woulda gone home too but not for the same reasons

[NightLad]

That was absolutely psychotic.

However, I loved how you handled the situation.

Didn't that lady know its black history month? ;-)

2 of my cousins are black... its a damn good thing she didn't try that with me. My tongue can be quite barbed.

[jeffjr464]

i don't know about you but the thought of a woman in control of the "button" unnerves me, what if it's her time of the month and in a fit decides to erase a country hehe

[recycling goddess]

i don't know about you but the thought of a woman in control of the "button" unnerves me, what if it's her time of the month and in a fit decides to erase a country hehe

i find what you said to be very degrading to woman... deeply degrading.

[jeffjr464]

why degrading? its a fact most women can be moody during that time, periods are degrading?