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 agree. It’s called manners. In all my years of working with the public I would never have made notes that said that or called someone that. How about a driver’s license number, didn’t the clerk ever think of that???? That’s ID, not a description.
They should have written: tiny head
I do know that the wack job professor was even too wacky for Colombia. She came across as an attention grabbing nut case, and when this story went international, the heat focused on her and Colombia.
That's when Colombia fired her for plagarism.
As well, wonder what happened to her appeal?
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