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  • "Big Fat Black Lady" Angered by Gas Station Receipt

    09/26/2009 10:01:56 AM PDT · by Daffynition · 164 replies · 4,765+ views
    WTSP.com ^ | Sept 26 2009 | daniel trotter
    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...