public rudeness
Today I accompanied my mother as she went to a clinic for a routine colonoscopy. It was at this place that does nothing but colonoscopies and endoscopies and they herd people in and out like cattle. (Hate the place.)
Anyway, we were in the waiting room and every five minutes or so a nurse would come and call a patient's name. A young, black female (perhaps pertinent info) nurse came out and said hesitantly, "Mr...B----?" An older white man stood up and said, "Are you dyslexic? I prefer B----." My mother and I looked at each other and said, "That was kind of rude."
After my mom was finished I was going out to the get the car and bring it up to the door to meet her. I passed this same man sitting in a wheelchair waiting for his ride. Again, there was a different young black female nurse standing next to him. As I passed them I heard him say to her "Of course, things were better before they started letting you vote." 0_o
I was so flabbergasted I almost turned around and asked him what he meant. Two things stopped me. First of all it was a private conversation. To interrupt would have been rude. (Though I don't know that he would know rude if it bit him in his recently-scoped butt.) And secondly, the nurse giggled when he said that. Maybe, just maybe, I thought, the man had a really weird sense of humor and since I missed the first part of the conversation I also missed out on whatever made it funny/somewhat acceptable? Or else the nurse was a saint.
But either way I figure he meant that "things were better before they started letting [black people/women] vote" and either statement is offensive, even if it is uttered as a "joke", especially to someone you are not acquainted with.
I hope they stuffed poison up his butt.
Anyway, we were in the waiting room and every five minutes or so a nurse would come and call a patient's name. A young, black female (perhaps pertinent info) nurse came out and said hesitantly, "Mr...B----?" An older white man stood up and said, "Are you dyslexic? I prefer B----." My mother and I looked at each other and said, "That was kind of rude."
After my mom was finished I was going out to the get the car and bring it up to the door to meet her. I passed this same man sitting in a wheelchair waiting for his ride. Again, there was a different young black female nurse standing next to him. As I passed them I heard him say to her "Of course, things were better before they started letting you vote." 0_o
I was so flabbergasted I almost turned around and asked him what he meant. Two things stopped me. First of all it was a private conversation. To interrupt would have been rude. (Though I don't know that he would know rude if it bit him in his recently-scoped butt.) And secondly, the nurse giggled when he said that. Maybe, just maybe, I thought, the man had a really weird sense of humor and since I missed the first part of the conversation I also missed out on whatever made it funny/somewhat acceptable? Or else the nurse was a saint.
But either way I figure he meant that "things were better before they started letting [black people/women] vote" and either statement is offensive, even if it is uttered as a "joke", especially to someone you are not acquainted with.
I hope they stuffed poison up his butt.