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JonLP24

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18. One day I was wearing a button-up collared shirt

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Dec 18, 2014, 05:01 AM

Dec 2014

I was mistaken for a worker 3 times in a grocery store.

I have no idea why since Safeway obviously wear different uniforms than the kind of shirt I was wearing.

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Obama: As a Black Man He's Been Mistaken for Valet [View all] Eugene Dec 2014 OP

Somebody ain't doing their job: A Round Tuit Dec 2014 #1

Perhaps they asked her because she's tall...n/t monmouth4 Dec 2014 #2

Happens to me all the time at the grocery store Yupster Dec 2014 #4

Why do you assume this happened within the past 6 years? n/t gollygee Dec 2014 #12

WTF? A Round Tuit Dec 2014 #15

You said the secret service isn't doing their job gollygee Dec 2014 #16

This is common for black people JustAnotherGen Dec 2014 #3

I was in a store in Orlando a few years ago malaise Dec 2014 #6

Oh I hate that JustAnotherGen Dec 2014 #9

Love it malaise Dec 2014 #13

Someone will be along any minute now to say JustAnotherGen Dec 2014 #14

Understandable mistake Man from Pickens Dec 2014 #5

Huh? malaise Dec 2014 #7

... SidDithers Dec 2014 #10

Dumb post. Darb Dec 2014 #11

Bullshite. Cha Dec 2014 #17

Ths is classic: boguspotus Dec 2014 #8

One day I was wearing a button-up collared shirt JonLP24 Dec 2014 #18