My husband took us out to dinner the last night, and because it was cold I draped my long black scarf over my head, then flipped the end over my shoulders. When I got out of the car at the restaurant my daughter said that I looked weird, and I should take it off. But before I did, someone walking behind me did the the "Zenna warrior princess's yell", you know the one she does with her tongue.
I can't do it, everytime I try to do that yell, it just comes out "le-le-blllth!" It's also a middle East yell.
Well right after that, I took off my scarf and looped it around my neck like normal, and pulled out my long, frizzy red hair. Then the guy behind us said "Oh, I thought that was one of those rag-heads." Which of course I'm not! Then another voice said "Shhhh!"
I never looked around, as I was busy talking to my daughter. Maybe I should have! Maybe I should have gave him a piece of my mind, about being judgmental about people! Maybe I should have, but I didn't! What happened to tolerance in this country? Did we ever have any? Or was it a casualty of 9-11 too?
3 comments:
Gar-
Thank you for your comment!
And thank you for wanting to punch the "idiot" in the nose!
I will drop in, and talk to you some more about Pat Hodgell's books.
Yeah "tolerance", and "family values!" Maybe like "charity" it begains at home.
Lady Jan-
Hello singing Butler,
Yeah, maybe I should have! But I didn't, alas.
Hmmm, well, yes California in general is a liberal state!
But, I live in a small town, in the middle of the San Jaquin Valley, and it's really still a small farming comunity. And it has a monopoly on small town pettiness, and small mindedness.
Lady Jan
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