Two Black Women Walk Into The Grocery Store . . .

[Warpy]

52. A variation on the theme is the counter clerk sauntering out of the back room

and trying to wait on the white woman (me) first. Well, I'm never in a big enough hurry to be rude, so I gesture to the other people who were first and tell him other people were first, start there, I'll wait my turn. I'm not nasty about it, it's just a simple statement of fact.

The shock I've seen on black and Hispano faces tells me that damned few people out there would prefer not being rude.

So yeah, I recognize this kind of white privilege and monkey wrench it whenever I can. I can't imagine how infuriating this day to day bullshit is to people who don't have my Irish hide.

Nobody has ever done the bad check song and dance when I've been there. Then again, I live in the rainbow part of town, we're all suspects.