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"Big Fat Black Lady" Angered by Gas Station Receipt
WTSP.com ^ | Sept 26 2009 | daniel trotter

Posted on 09/26/2009 10:01:56 AM PDT by Daffynition

SACRAMENTO, CA - Helen Hodges understood the need for a gas station clerk to write her identifying information on a sales receipt. She just wishes he had chosen a different phrase.

"It says 'black lady,' and I can understand that because I am a black lady," Hodges told News10. "But I don't get 'big fat.' I don't get that part."

Hodges, 31, said the offensive incident happened Thursday night after she was shorted $10 in a gas pump mix-up at a station on Marconi Avenue near the Capital City Freeway. When she returned to the station for a refund, a $10 bill was attached to a receipt with a handwritten notation "black lady big fat."

Hodges said it was her 6-year-old son who noticed the slight, which hurt even more. She tried contacting the manager, but is still waiting for an apology.

"The lesson they should learn is my money helps run that store," Hodges said. "And I won't be going back."


TOPICS: Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bigfatblacklady; fatladysings; napl
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To: Daffynition

41 posted on 09/26/2009 10:20:08 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro

LOL!


42 posted on 09/26/2009 10:20:46 AM PDT by wastedyears (The best aid we could ever give Africa would be thousands of rifles to throw out their own dictators)
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To: sirchtruth

Yo mama so fat she went to the movies and sat next to everyone


43 posted on 09/26/2009 10:20:58 AM PDT by Pharmboy (The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
“The lesson they should learn is my money helps run that store,” Hodges said. “And I won’t be going back.”

IMHO, she is taking the CORRECT action here.

I agree with you and with her. Take your business elsewhere; vote with your wallet. Um, where is the news here?

44 posted on 09/26/2009 10:21:38 AM PDT by altair ("We are content and happy if Obama can stay forever as president of America." - Gadhafi)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

LOL! I do, however, have a sister with big bones.

A doctor told her that she’d never, ever have oesteoperosis.

It happens.


45 posted on 09/26/2009 10:22:28 AM PDT by bannie
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To: Pharmboy
OK. I'll play. Yo mamma is so fat, moons orbit her
46 posted on 09/26/2009 10:22:43 AM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: library user

“Big” could mean tall. anyone know her height?


47 posted on 09/26/2009 10:23:48 AM PDT by zwerni (this isn't gonna be good for business)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

L
o
L
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48 posted on 09/26/2009 10:25:01 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: zwerni
“Big” could mean tall. anyone know her height?

4'7"

Just teasing, I have no idea.

49 posted on 09/26/2009 10:25:03 AM PDT by library user
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To: Dysart
Wait a minute. ;D

From the story: "Hodges said it was her 6-year-old son who noticed the slight..."

First she didn't count her change; secondly her 6 y/o found the words on the receipt.

Now you're telling me that she can read and write and do math?

LOL

I work with people like this every day. I'll bet she dropped out of school well before she was 16. ;D

50 posted on 09/26/2009 10:25:12 AM PDT by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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To: Dysart

“...she wrote “Big Fat” herself.”

Seems obvious if you scrutinize the note - different hand writing.


51 posted on 09/26/2009 10:25:13 AM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea
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To: GGpaX4DumpedTea

I know. I blew it up. The “a” and “B” letters are not consistent. Spacing wrong. Slanting not right. Liar.


52 posted on 09/26/2009 10:27:33 AM PDT by Dysart
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To: paul51

Yo mama’s so fat, she had to let out the shower curtain


53 posted on 09/26/2009 10:29:39 AM PDT by Pharmboy (The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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To: Daffynition
Guess they could have written, "black lady, not little, not thin.
54 posted on 09/26/2009 10:29:48 AM PDT by DejaJude
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To: Slings and Arrows

“I don’t get that part.”

_________________________________________

Maybe if you wrap it in bacon... she’ll get it.


55 posted on 09/26/2009 10:30:29 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I am Legend)
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To: DejaJude

Yo momma’s so fat, when she ran away, they had to use all four sides of the milk carton.


56 posted on 09/26/2009 10:31:56 AM PDT by Pharmboy (The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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To: Pharmboy

Yo mamma’s so fat her blood type is ‘gravy’!


57 posted on 09/26/2009 10:32:38 AM PDT by airborne (Don't let history record that, when faced with evil, you did nothing!)
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To: Daffynition

This story could be false.


58 posted on 09/26/2009 10:33:35 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: mysterio

I agree with you. The clerk has no manners and should apologize at the very least. It is a matter of decency not politics. If I acted that way with a client, I’d expect to get written up or fired. Maybe if she was being a jerk (and it would be within her rights to be angry at getting short-changed), there might be a mitigating circumstance, but absent that, the clerk is the A-hole here.


59 posted on 09/26/2009 10:34:53 AM PDT by Gritty-Kitty
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To: airborne

ROFLMAO

In the south, her blood type would be “sausage gravy”.


60 posted on 09/26/2009 10:35:22 AM PDT by dfwddr (fubo... no, FUBO !!!!!!!)
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