"Big Fat Black Lady" Angered by Gas Station Receipt

WTSP.com ^ | Sept 26 2009 | daniel trotter

[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."

[DogBarkTree]

Shoulda just wrote “beef gravy queen”

[Daffynition]

[TaxPayer2000]

Is “Big Fat” redundant or contradictory?

[Dubh_Ghlase]

Me too...

[Daffynition]

Technically, it’s called an oscillating redundancy.

[jdub]

Doctors will tell you that their peers have been sued for telling a patient that they are fat and need to lose weight.

Maybe, but they won't tell you that they themselves have been sued because that would deal with reality rather than fairy tales.

[Cyber Liberty]

That noise you hear is the sound of a shoe fitting in Sacramento.

[woofie]

Two days ago I was told I was a little fat white guy...This is getting ugly

[Dysart]

I bet you a case of Old Milwaukee she wrote “Big Fat” herself.

[paddles]

Blue Goodyear Blimp

[Daffynition]

Did you get a receipt?

You need a paper trail if you’re gong to sue. ;)

[Squantos]

Vertically challenged female that can’t count !

[library user]

Is “Big Fat” redundant or contradictory?

The second word is used to reiterate/reinforce the first, I believe.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

big-boned?

In the words of Chris Rock, "Have you ever seen a fat skeleton?"

[sirchtruth]

Shoulda just wrote “beef gravy queen”

LOL! Yo mamma is so big her waist size is equator!

[lack-of-trust]

shocking discover!

minimum wage clerk is not a customer relations wiz.

quik call the media! oh, you did already... nevermind.

Me, I’m shocked all 4 words are correctly spelled.

[Pharmboy]

Yo mama so fat that when she walks across the floor the radio skips...

[billhilly]

Big and fat? Um Huh.

[bannie]

Greetings from an little old fat white lady.

:-)

[paul51]

rotund would have been more polite I suppose