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."
I don't assume the "facts" as presented by her are as reported.
Two area code @$$ lady.
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.
She doesn’t get the big fat part, wow, I guess she never looked in a mirror.
“Guess they could have written, “black lady, not little, not thin.”
Not a lady.
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.
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Do you ever read the Michelle Obama threads?
There is no news. The thread is providing other entertainment. A lot of it.
Your momma’s so fat, when she went to the beach Greenpeace tried to drag her back in the water.
Bet I’d get in trouble if I mentioned that the note was a simple case of calling a spade a spade?
Momma's so fat...she got a run in her blue jeans.
Your momma’s so fat that she has husbands in California and New York, and she lives with both of them.
LOL! good one!
yo momma so fat, when she was born, the hospital had stretch marks
:-D I could barely type it laughing at yours.
"Not unlarge."
(My apologies to George Carlin.)
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