I’ve already posted today and I hate for y’all to miss out on the last post since it includes photos of some very nice—in my opinion—winter footwear.
However.
I have a story that needs telling. I’d call it an anecdote except that it isn’t funny. At least not in the ha-ha kind of way. It’s funny in the appalling, nuh-unh!, get-the-fuck-out-of-here kind of way. Whatever you want to call it, I need to put it out into the bright light of the internets so I don’t carry it around in my gut like a cancer.
One of Sam’s regular customers apparently engaged him in a conversation about the death of the Washington Redskins safety, Sean Taylor, who died today following a gunshot would inflicted Monday morning while he slept. During the course of the conversation, the customer mentioned that he didn’t really feel sorry for Taylor because had it not been for the NFL, Taylor “would have just been some thug in prison anyway.” Then he grunted twice, picked a flake of dry skin from his scalp, put it in his mouth and lumbered off toward his office where he works with underprivileged high-schoolers (read: Blacks and Hispanics) in outreach education.
I hope he didn’t scrape up his knuckles too badly as they dragged on the ground behind him.
6 responses so far ↓
1 kerryanne // Nov 28, 2007 at 1:09 am
Seriously??? OMG. I’m a bit stunned- and waiting for a postscript saying that didn’t really happen. WTF?
2 robyn // Nov 28, 2007 at 9:33 am
Oh. That just made my stomach turn.
3 family-of-five // Nov 28, 2007 at 5:52 pm
girl, that’s edgy. why don’t you come on over the dark side and write fiction?
4 Martha // Nov 28, 2007 at 5:56 pm
And this douchebag is working in outreach?? Ggggggrrrrrrr…
Wonder if he left his pointy white hat back in the office while getting coffee.
5 Aaryn // Nov 28, 2007 at 6:12 pm
@kerryanne: no postscript. i wish there were one. this guy exists in the real world.
@robyn: yeah, me too.
@f-o-f: see, now, i’d love to write fiction but i don’t know how. can you help me?
@martha: his pointy white hat is invisible, see. until he chooses to let us all see it. (on another note, got your holiday card…v is just d.a.r.l.i.n.g!!! so are his parents, of course.)
6 Christine // Dec 2, 2007 at 1:47 am
Add another vote for outrage!
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