[zipper]

I walked into a bar in NYC and they wouldn’t let me use the restroom (key required) because I wasn’t a paying customer yet.

So I said “oh, okay” and bought a beer, set it down in front of. me at the bar, then took the key and used the restroom, after which I proceeded to drink the beer (and then some more).

This all probably means it’s proof of my embedded, self-assured white privilege since I didn’t immediately yell “RACIST” and leave the bar frothing obscenities at the bartender.

[Mears]

“I walked into a bar in NYC and they wouldn’t let me use the restroom (key required) because I wasn’t a paying customer yet.”

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The same thing happened to me one evening while walking my dog-———I went into a local restaurant,tossed a couple of bucks on the counter for a coffee,and used the restroom.

I didn’t drink the coffee-—I went back to the dog. :-)

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