Warning: pretty darn offensive..

[chocoBug]

WARNING: Views expressed here are NOT my own as you will read but i was so offended by them I just wanted to warn you all. I feel AWFUL.

I was standing at the bus stop and, being scotland, it was absolutely pouring down with rain. In the bus shelter with me was a woman & her husband, and a sweet old lady with a wee rainmate on; the kinda that bakes you cookies even though she doesnt know you. An Indian guy ducks into the shelter just as a bus pulls up, turns to me and says "excuse me, but does that bus go through the centre?". I replied yup it does, he thanked me and got on the bus. The bus takes off with a loud puff of exhaust and the little old lady turns to me;

OL: Disgusting arent they!
Now i THOUGHT she was talking about the buses. . . this is where the fun starts..
Me: Oh yeh theyre dead dirty, you'd think they'd be cleaned up once in a while.
OL: I dont see why we have them here
Me: Wuh . . . some people need to catch the bus. . .
OL: Well you know, taking our jobs, smelling funny, I just dont see why we dont send them back to India-land or wherever they came from.
*twigging shes talking about the guy*....

A bus arrives, the lil lady hobbles over, gives me a massive smile and says "nice talking to you deary" and off she goes. The couple are staring at me, glaring, thinking i was actually agreeing with all the bile that lady was spewing towards me and i just feel so terrible and embaressed. . . . I know old people tend to engage in casual racism sometimes but that . . . .THAT was special...

[Fufu487]

personally, i just ignore people like that. its ahrd sometimes when your serving someone, do you bite your tongue and keep serving them and just say nothing, or do you risk your job a "cleanse the world of its ignorance". I think i'll take the first, as bleach cannot cleanse all things.....

[Sheldonrs]

I used to just smile tolerantly when people spoke to me about crap like that.
Now when it happens, I just say "OK. Conversation over" and turn my attention to something else.

It's one of the nice things about getting older. I put up with less crap.

[stucksb]

My brain doesn't immediately leap to the racist option either, so I've been caught in this situation a couple of times, with my own grandmother.

[Anriana]

According to google a rainmate is some kind of air freshener.

Is it slang for raincoat?

[mariamousie1]

My brother was once hanging out with his friend and was hooking up a gamecube. His friend was talking, but he was paying attention to what he was doing and not really listening. After his friend said something, my bro said "cool" and it turned out his friend had just mentioned his grandfather had just died. Luckily, his friend understood he hadn't been listening. Knowing my brother, he probably apologized a million times and he still feels bad about it. Anyway, sorry you're embarrassed, but at least you'll never see those bus stop people again...
Also, I have the same problem with my mom. She's racist when she drives. She's always going on about how chinese people can't drive (all asians are chinese to her) and she says things about middle eastern people too, like "Ever heard of signalling, Akmed?" I hate it, but I've learned to tune it out, because I have given up trying to get her to stop. Also, there's a mosque nearby, and she once told me never to go inside because I would be shot on sight because I'm a woman. She seriously thinks they build bombs in the mosques. My mom is an awesome person usually, but she can be pretty stupid about some things.

[BaristaTrav]

It is at least good to know that racist old biddies like that are dying every day, and as they continue to expire, their #s continue to dwindle.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

It is at least good to know that racist old biddies like that are dying every day, and as they continue to expire, their #s continue to dwindle.

Pfft, there's plenty more being born to take their place.

[garth1]

My Grandmother was not a raciest by any stretch of the word, and one day I and my Brother were just talking casually with her. She was telling a story about my Dad, and she comes out with this; "J was up the street playing with that little N****r boy." I looked at her rather funny, as I had never heard her talk like that, and I wrote it off to that just being the way they talked back then. I never heard her talk like that again.
I aske my Dad about it, and he said they all talked like that when he was growing up, and it wasn't meant in a bad way.

Just kinda weird to hear my Grandma talk like that... http://www.customerssuck.com/board/i...ons/icon11.gif

[Anriana]

My Grandmother was not a raciest by any stretch of the word, and one day I and my Brother were just talking casually with her. She was telling a story about my Dad, and she comes out with this; "J was up the street playing with that little N****r boy."

Yeah sorry, but that is racist.

just because it was that way "back then" doesn't negate prejudice.

*MOD EDIT - Reminder that this is not fratching.

[BuggedMei]

My grandfather used to spit racism out like that too, it was kind of embarrassing.

Walking through the mall once he complained about the "spear chucker music"! (Rap music). I almost died of embarrassment x.x;

[Food Lady]

My Mom's grandma was a hypocritical bigot. She would talk about how those Cubans were gonna take over the state (Florida). Mom remembers walking out to the porch and asking her, "What'cha doing, Grandma?" The reply? "I'm just settin' here watchin' the ni****s go by." And the worst of all: her denial of her husband's heritage. She'd say, scandalized, "My husband tweren't no Indian!" Um, yeah, grandma. He was HALF Cherokee. You don't like non-whites, but you married one.

[Anriana]

She would talk about how those Cubans were gonna take over the state (Florida).

Clearly she didn't know the actual history of Florida, which is sad. I mean, come on, the name is freaking Spanish! Isn't that a big hint?

[wagegoth]

It's one of the nice things about getting older. I put up with less crap.

Oh, yes, I love that part. Most of the rest I could do well without.

[callcentressuck]

that was so badly uncalled for, I hate narrow minded people.

Ive been racially abused at my workplace many times aswell and you just gotta deal with it.

Its narrow minded people like that old lady that make this world a sick place, if it wasnt for open minded forward thinking people we would still be living in caves!!