Post by Roanoke on Dec 27, 2003 2:28:52 GMT -5
Yes, that's right. A funny thing happened on the way to work today. I take the DART rail line (Dallas Area Rapid Transit; though there's not really anything rapid about it since it takes me 2 HOURS to get to work). Usually there are all colors and all varieties of people who ride the train (imagine that!). Schitzophrenics and Terret's aside (I'll save these juicy tidbits for another day), today's episode way most special and fun to observe from a people-watching standpoint. If you've ever been able to predetermine when two totally separate and disparate secenarios would somehow intertwine and overflow into something explosively volatile then you'd appreciate this one. There was this African American who happened to be lazy and didn't quite walk fast enough to catch his train. He came bumbling up the stairs of the train station just as the train was pulling away. Much cursing and swearing then ensued. When he finally calmed down, he chose to sit down so that he could wallow in self-pity (all the while muttering under his breath) at his misfortune seeing as he then had to wait an entire 20 minutes to catch the next train. Well, a few minutes elapsed and, lo!, along came a jolly and smashingly inebriated white man. The stars must have been crossed for these two souls because the white man walked almost immediately over to the black man and asked what was perhaps the most inappropriate question any white man could pose to an already really pissed off black man. (Insert drunkenly garbled voice here), "If I was to call you a my nigger would you get mad at me?" This started a fire in the black man because he seemed to be cured from his ailment of lethargy. He got up and very hastily shoved the white man. Being drunk like he was, his balance wasn't so hot to begin with. He fell over backwards and the black guy started after him, punching him in the head. The white guy very unwisely chose at this point to laugh which of course only served to tick off the black dude even more. He grabbed two handfuls of the white guy's shirt and picked him up off the ground. He propped him up on a concrete pillar and decked him in the face so hard that his head bounced into the pillar. By this time the white guy didn't seem to be conscious anymore and was sporting a nice crimson mask. The transit police found the black guy just as he was getting ready to start hitting him a few times in the gut. They arrested the black guy and surprisingly the white guy, too. The moral of the story is: Do not piss off or otherwise provoke a black man who is angrily talking to himself and mose especially don't say something that will have you deserving of your own personalized ass whopping handed to you on a silver platter. So there.
Jeremy Markel
P.S. The white guy had it coming to him, which I guess is the funny part.
Jeremy Markel
P.S. The white guy had it coming to him, which I guess is the funny part.
