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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: trisham

No.

Watch the video

http://www.news10.net/news/story.aspx?storyid=67607&catid=2


81 posted on 09/26/2009 10:55:34 AM PDT by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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To: Savage Beast
Assuming that the facts are as reported in this article,.......

I don't assume the "facts" as presented by her are as reported.

82 posted on 09/26/2009 10:56:56 AM PDT by dfwddr (Where am I going, and why am I in this handbasket ???)
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To: airborne
yo mamma so fat, she has to use a boomerang to put her belt on
83 posted on 09/26/2009 10:58:02 AM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: Daffynition

Two area code @$$ lady.


84 posted on 09/26/2009 11:04:11 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Jimmy Carter - now the second worst POTUS ever. BHO [the LIAR] has #1 spot in his sights.)
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To: Savage Beast

SB ... you make a good point[s].

But in actuality, this is not uncommon in the ‘hood.

In everyday conversation it’s f-this-f-that. Then the N-word is used so loosely, one would think it has no historical context.

I’m not defending the clerk [did anyone consider the clerk that wrote the note was a different clerk, different shift, than the one from the day before?] ...nor as you term unprofessional-ism.

Should it be that this station is located in an ethnic neighborhood, then the language used is not far from the truth.

You or I might not like “mean”. But that’s the way it is.

It’s not pretty. It’s there. And it’s in your face.


85 posted on 09/26/2009 11:05:27 AM PDT by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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To: Daffynition

She doesn’t get the big fat part, wow, I guess she never looked in a mirror.


86 posted on 09/26/2009 11:07:45 AM PDT by celestron71
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To: DejaJude

“Guess they could have written, “black lady, not little, not thin.”

Not a lady.


87 posted on 09/26/2009 11:08:09 AM PDT by billhilly
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To: Dysart

I noticed the oddness of the sentence structure myself. Wouldn’t the guy have written “Big fat black lady” with the big fat at the beggining, not as an after thought? Seems kinda suspicious to me, like another, “ look how mean whitey is to black people” moment that blacks have pulled many times.


88 posted on 09/26/2009 11:11:33 AM PDT by celestron71
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To: paddles

Blue screen Jumbotron


89 posted on 09/26/2009 11:13:27 AM PDT by sand lake bar (Take that thing off your head and act like an American!)
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To: Savage Beast

Do you ever read the Michelle Obama threads?


90 posted on 09/26/2009 11:16:09 AM PDT by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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To: altair

There is no news. The thread is providing other entertainment. A lot of it.


91 posted on 09/26/2009 11:18:30 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: paul51

Your momma’s so fat, when she went to the beach Greenpeace tried to drag her back in the water.


92 posted on 09/26/2009 11:21:20 AM PDT by airborne (Don't let history record that, when faced with evil, you did nothing!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Bet I’d get in trouble if I mentioned that the note was a simple case of calling a spade a spade?


93 posted on 09/26/2009 11:21:35 AM PDT by NerdDad (Aug 7, 1981, I married my soul mate, CDBEAR. 28 years and I'm still teenager-crazy in love with her.)
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To: Daffynition
"But I don't get 'big fat.' I don't get that part."

Poor woman isn't just fat, she's delusional.

Honey, when you can use your knickers for a mainsail, it's time to admit you have a weight problem.
94 posted on 09/26/2009 11:21:40 AM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (Warning: Sarcasm/humor is always engaged. Failure to recognize this may lead to misunderstandings.)
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To: Grizzled Bear
Be nice, people. She’s probably somebody’s Momma...

Momma's so fat...she got a run in her blue jeans.

95 posted on 09/26/2009 11:24:03 AM PDT by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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To: airborne

Your momma’s so fat that she has husbands in California and New York, and she lives with both of them.


96 posted on 09/26/2009 11:25:20 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: TheOldLady

LOL! good one!


97 posted on 09/26/2009 11:26:43 AM PDT by airborne (Don't let history record that, when faced with evil, you did nothing!)
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To: airborne

yo momma so fat, when she was born, the hospital had stretch marks


98 posted on 09/26/2009 11:26:58 AM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: airborne

:-D I could barely type it laughing at yours.


99 posted on 09/26/2009 11:29:45 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: DejaJude
Guess they could have written, "black lady, not little, not thin.

"Not unlarge."

(My apologies to George Carlin.)

100 posted on 09/26/2009 11:30:22 AM PDT by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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