I woke up at a normal time this morning. I realized I had little to do, so I offered to helped my father put in a stone patio.
Ignoring the heat and humidity, it was a pretty simplistic job, I'd have to say. We finished "installing" the 20 bricks in about 3.5 hours (including sitting-around-and-drinking-beer time). As a nice gesture for my help, he decided to take me to dinner at my second-favorite local Chinese buffet (well, we went by the other one, but it was packed).
This place was really nice when it was first built, but has gone downhill over the years, both because of of the neighborhood and the shopping center itself, and its customer base simply not caring about anything. The new buffet that opened (my favorite, now) has been taking customers away, and I'm sure that doesn't help at all, either.
Over the years, quite a good amount of graffit and gang tags have been drawn in the bathroom. Most of it is inane, but some of it is interesting. After years and years of random graffiti, some dumb white person got it in their brain that adding to the overall inanity of the graffiti was a wise idea, so they wrote "Fuck niggers and chinks".
I saw that a over a year ago. I took a black marker to it back then.
Fast-forward to present day:
I went into the bathroom. I noticed that plenty more had been drawn/written on the walls. Most-notably, something had been added somewhere near where the still-blacked-out "Fuck niggers and chinks". The new bit of idiocy was "This is a nigger buffy".
Yes, a nigger buffy. Don't fret, though, folks, these white people aren't really all that stupid: They realized their mistake! To make amends for this misspelling, they crossed out the "y" and added an "e". Yes, folks, Jade Garden Buffet now a nigger buffe.[1]
I did some research, and as it turns out, Dictionary.com defines nigger as one of several things, the most important to this conversation being the second such definition in the second entry:
Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a person of any race or origin regarded as contemptible, inferior, ignorant, etc.
Yes, the person who cannot spell buffet - a word they just walked by about ten different times when entering and walking around the restaurant - is apparently implying that someone of another race is an ignorant person. This makes sense.
Local racist assholes: Keep it classy and intellectual!
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Ignoring the heat and humidity, it was a pretty simplistic job, I'd have to say. We finished "installing" the 20 bricks in about 3.5 hours (including sitting-around-and-drinking-beer time). As a nice gesture for my help, he decided to take me to dinner at my second-favorite local Chinese buffet (well, we went by the other one, but it was packed).
This place was really nice when it was first built, but has gone downhill over the years, both because of of the neighborhood and the shopping center itself, and its customer base simply not caring about anything. The new buffet that opened (my favorite, now) has been taking customers away, and I'm sure that doesn't help at all, either.
Over the years, quite a good amount of graffit and gang tags have been drawn in the bathroom. Most of it is inane, but some of it is interesting. After years and years of random graffiti, some dumb white person got it in their brain that adding to the overall inanity of the graffiti was a wise idea, so they wrote "Fuck niggers and chinks".
I saw that a over a year ago. I took a black marker to it back then.
Fast-forward to present day:
I went into the bathroom. I noticed that plenty more had been drawn/written on the walls. Most-notably, something had been added somewhere near where the still-blacked-out "Fuck niggers and chinks". The new bit of idiocy was "This is a nigger buffy".
Yes, a nigger buffy. Don't fret, though, folks, these white people aren't really all that stupid: They realized their mistake! To make amends for this misspelling, they crossed out the "y" and added an "e". Yes, folks, Jade Garden Buffet now a nigger buffe.[1]
I did some research, and as it turns out, Dictionary.com defines nigger as one of several things, the most important to this conversation being the second such definition in the second entry:
Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a person of any race or origin regarded as contemptible, inferior, ignorant, etc.
Yes, the person who cannot spell buffet - a word they just walked by about ten different times when entering and walking around the restaurant - is apparently implying that someone of another race is an ignorant person. This makes sense.
Local racist assholes: Keep it classy and intellectual!
1. A picture
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