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December 21, 2006
to the white guy who sat in the middle of a three-seat bench on the bus - 
Yes, you, with your hemp and recycled rubber, your oh-so-hipster garb! Why are you too good to move over and share a three-seat bench? It was so kind that you let me squeeze in beside you, it just filled me with the Christmas spirit. Bah, humbug. What is wrong with you people?
I don't get it. Are you entitled to a three-seat bench because you're white and middle-class and male? Because you buy groovy expensive recycled things that advertise how groovy and expensive you are? My mother would back hand me if I acted like you did. And she'd have reason.
And what was my crime? That I dress like a social worker, going to work? That I'm middle-aged? That I'm fat? That I walk with a limp? What sorts of assumptions were you making about me?
You know, if you had moved over, we both would have had a bit more room. You wouldn't have had to lean into me as I fished into my pocket for a tissue. But you seemed to want to punish me for sitting down with you, one white guy, on a three seat bench. As you noticed, I do fit into one seat. As do you. You could have made this a pleasant experience for both of us. And you would have seemed like less of an asshole.
I hope Santa brings you coal.
VJ
Posted at December 21, 2006
Comments
Maybe santa will bring him Something else!
Posted by: Misty at December 21, 2006 1:44 PM
Sorry - that should have been http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7312/2950/1600/356340/santa.gif
Posted by: Misty at December 21, 2006 1:45 PM
Started reading your musings after doing a search for Townies (I, too, am slow, trying to be brave, and not-so-young). Loved this post...
Hang in there, and Merry Christmas from the cornfields of Central Illinois.
Posted by: Suzanne at December 22, 2006 11:50 AM
Not sure what his being white has to do with it, but guys like that drive me up the wall
Posted by: marci at December 30, 2006 8:29 AM