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Sep (lord of all I survey) (sepiamagpie) wrote,
@ 2008-04-29 17:34:00

Fact: Sep is a redhead. It confuses people
Okay, so I had this great idea at work.

You know how make entire blogs dedicated to their cats, right? I was thinking that maybe something like that with my boss, who is a furious old lady. You know, little anecdotes, pictures of her doing weird stuff, her attacking the cash register, things on her head, costumes...

All written like a cat blog.

For some reason she said no when I asked. :< WE COULD HAVE BEEN STARS.

It's probably for the best though, I couldn't find a very funny way to present today's story:

Old Guy: I would like to purchase mints!
Me: Sure! Here, I will hold out the mints for you to select what you want.
-conversation will now become actual quotes-
Old Guy: Why, is there something wrong with them?
Me: Naw, I just didn't think you'd be comfortable with me touching your food.
Old Guy: Oh, it's okay. It's not like you're coloured.
Me: D:

Boss' wisdom: People are like that. I was less than comforted, I admit.

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	puipui 2008-04-29 10:40 pm UTC (link)
	It's not like you're coloured or anything. HORRORFACE! WIDE-EYED HORRORFACE! OF HORROR! D: (Reply to this)(Thread)

	sepiamagpie 2008-04-29 10:42 pm UTC (link)
	Aw, fuck. I thought I edited out the 'anything'. That was my verbal tic going into the quote. I KNOW. I WAS LIKE 'D:' and then I remembered that the boss said I wasn't allowed to sass anymore so I just quietly tried to urge them out with my MIND. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	puipui 2008-04-29 10:46 pm UTC (link)
	I just quietly tried to urge them out with my MIND. IT NEVER WORKS. D: (Reply to this)(Parent)

	alya1989262 2008-04-29 10:48 pm UTC (link)
	O_O D: D: D: WHAT?! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	sepiamagpie 2008-04-29 10:52 pm UTC (link)
	YOU'D THINK I'D BE USED TO THIS, BETWEEN MY GRANDMOTHER AND MY BOSS. My boss thinks it's totally appropriate to tell me that Muslims are infiltrating the country to murder us all in our beds while I'm going 'shut up shut up shut up shut upppppp oh god you're so old' (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	alya1989262 2008-04-29 10:59 pm UTC (link)
	YOU'D THINK I'D BE USED TO THIS, BETWEEN MY GRANDMOTHER AND MY BOSS You're a stronger person than I. I'd never be able to withstand it. I... I'm just going to stare at cute!kitteh until the urge to cry goes away. PS: we are planning to infiltrate your country, but that's because Canadians are supposedly nice (SUPPOSEDLY!), so we won't murder you in your bed. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sepiamagpie 2008-04-29 11:03 pm UTC (link)
	Cool. I'll make a fruit basket. Actually, the main group her (and my grandmother) have a hate-on for is Sikhs. But my boss often conflates them with Muslims and it gets weird. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	phosfate 2008-04-30 01:36 pm UTC (link)
	We had a Sikh guy working here for a while. I always had to restrain myself from shouting something like, OMG your turban is fucking AWESOME! Because it was. I realise this brings nothing to the discussion, but I really loved his turban. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	gobsmacked 2008-05-02 02:00 pm UTC (link)
	But my boss often conflates them with Muslims and it gets weird Not to mention uncomfortable for those being conflated! Ouch. It's a tight squeeze fitting two disparate cultures into one completely incorrect stereotypical pigeonhole. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	littlest_lurker 2008-04-30 02:39 am UTC (link)
	My boss thinks it's totally appropriate to tell me that Muslims are infiltrating the country to murder us all in our beds while I'm going 'shut up shut up shut up shut upppppp oh god you're so old' Oh, I've gotten that one from a customer before, during a sales pitch for men's shaving soap, which kinda derailed my thought train after that. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	alya1989262 2008-04-29 10:54 pm UTC (link)
	Are you sure he wasn't being ironic, at least? Or maybe he meant something completely different, like "it's not like you have paint on your hands", and it came out completely wrong? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sepiamagpie 2008-04-29 10:57 pm UTC (link)
	Don't think so. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	alya1989262 2008-04-29 11:00 pm UTC (link)
	clings to her faith in humanity (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sepiamagpie 2008-04-29 11:02 pm UTC (link)
	He was very very old. This is my ageism talking, but I wasn't actually too surprised he said something like that. Just how it came out of the blue like that. I've gotten really good at steering conversations away from topics where they could start saying stuff like that, so when they get me from the side like that, it's very D: (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	alya1989262 2008-04-29 11:09 pm UTC (link)
	I know what you mean. My grandmother says racist things occasionally, too, and I figure that at 72 years, she's not going to change much. So I just avoid mentioning my Sudanese friends to her. She always gets me when we discuss the US elections, though. ;_; (Reply to this)(Parent)

	alya1989262 2008-04-29 11:10 pm UTC (link)
	Oh and she hates my braids. points at icon (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sepiamagpie 2008-04-29 11:16 pm UTC (link)
	They're nice though! I put further thoughts on why I didn't think that guy was being ironic in a locked post. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	alya1989262 2008-04-29 11:26 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you! Sorry I'm comment-spamming today, by the way; I'm just kind of... boggled/horrified/D: (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sepiamagpie 2008-04-29 11:29 pm UTC (link)
	It's cool. It gives me something to do besides work on pj harvey icons. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	flightstothesea 2008-04-29 11:03 pm UTC (link)
	There's really no appropriate reaction besides D: (Reply to this)(Thread)

	sepiamagpie 2008-04-29 11:05 pm UTC (link)
	D: The rest of my day was boss harassing, as is my wont. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ashenmote 2008-04-29 11:06 pm UTC (link)
	Filthycat should touch his mints for that. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	sepiamagpie 2008-04-29 11:17 pm UTC (link)
	That's murder! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	phosfate 2008-04-30 01:37 pm UTC (link)
	No it's not, it's garnish! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	gobsmacked 2008-05-02 02:01 pm UTC (link)
	Seasoning! Extra fibre! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	rotten_fish 2008-04-29 11:36 pm UTC (link)
	Old white people are the worst. The things my relatives come out sometimes with is just like "...D:" Which, like Sparky said, is really the only response to these sort of posts. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	gobsmacked 2008-05-02 02:03 pm UTC (link)
	Some of my former neighbours were from a little town in India and they could really give old white people a run for their money. Prejudice is an equal-opportunity employer. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	entrenous88 2008-04-30 04:17 am UTC (link)
	Oh god. That's awful. I would be tempted to hit him over the head with the mint display. (Reply to this)

	... donna 2008-04-30 06:01 am UTC (link)
	What? No really, what? That reminds me of the convenience store clerk who bitched at me about black people coming in the store and harassing her. She used the "n" word. She didn't know me from ANYBODY and she's busting out that shit? So I gave her a D: face and told her my great-great-grandmother was black. She deserved it. (Reply to this)

	sorchar 2008-04-30 06:47 am UTC (link)
	FAIL, Old Guy. LOTS OF FAIL. (Reply to this)

	ebonbird 2008-05-03 12:15 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, good night. "It's not like you're colored." Sep, have you been passing again? You tricksy ndn boy you. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	sepiamagpie 2008-05-03 01:03 pm UTC (link)
	c'est la vie pour le métis. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	herdivineshadow 2008-05-04 07:57 pm UTC (link)
	That reminds me again about going to vote this week and the girls loitering outside being incredulous that my mum and I could vote, even though we weren't English. I mean. Forgetting for a moment that I was born in England and have lived all my life here, SCOTTISH PEOPLE CAN VOTE TOO. OMG. OMG. THE STUPIDITY. THE ABJECT STUPIDITY. (Reply to this)

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