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Snappy, ENY, others as applicable – serious question, and please ignore my judgmental post on the subject when you answer: do you prefer the term African American or black? Do you feel that someone is being more respectful to you when they refer to you one way or the other? Does the race of the speaker matter?
I liked your story about running around wild with a gang of kids when you were younger.
were you a tomboy?
I remember a completely bizarre and recurring scenario when I was about 8,
there were two older kids who lived around the corner,
a boy aged about 13 and a girl about 15,
every so often they would be seen chasing each other,
sometimes the boy chasing, sometimes the girl.
She was heftier than he was, I think his name was Rodney.
anyway, they would be running at full bore until one tackled the other and start rolling in the dust under the bushes. one of them always had the biggest Craftsman wrench in their hand to beat the other with.
I just remember being amazed at the sight of the two kids beating on each other until they basically got tired and got up and walked away.
I was also amazed at the size of the wrench and that they had access to these hand tools at all.
…never found out what their problem was or if they were boyfriend and girlfriend.
Biff you are hilarious. And your brand of humor requires a lot of intelligence. I would guess you are the smartest brownstoner regular by a country mile. I’m not getting ready to ask you a favor or anything, just stating the facts.
Snappy, ENY, others as applicable – serious question, and please ignore my judgmental post on the subject when you answer: do you prefer the term African American or black? Do you feel that someone is being more respectful to you when they refer to you one way or the other? Does the race of the speaker matter?
How could you be so sure it was a Craftsman wrench?
“wifebeater”
Did somebody call for me?
donatella,
I liked your story about running around wild with a gang of kids when you were younger.
were you a tomboy?
I remember a completely bizarre and recurring scenario when I was about 8,
there were two older kids who lived around the corner,
a boy aged about 13 and a girl about 15,
every so often they would be seen chasing each other,
sometimes the boy chasing, sometimes the girl.
She was heftier than he was, I think his name was Rodney.
anyway, they would be running at full bore until one tackled the other and start rolling in the dust under the bushes. one of them always had the biggest Craftsman wrench in their hand to beat the other with.
I just remember being amazed at the sight of the two kids beating on each other until they basically got tired and got up and walked away.
I was also amazed at the size of the wrench and that they had access to these hand tools at all.
…never found out what their problem was or if they were boyfriend and girlfriend.
Biff you are hilarious. And your brand of humor requires a lot of intelligence. I would guess you are the smartest brownstoner regular by a country mile. I’m not getting ready to ask you a favor or anything, just stating the facts.
But that’s because I’m of Eastern European descent and sweat more than Mike Tyson at a spelling bee.
Posted by: Biff Champion at March 25, 2010 10:02 AM
HA HAA…ROFL, Biff
“I absolutely noticed a completely different smell in one particular region.”
And what region would that be, Biff? Nova Scotia or someplace further south???
“Do you refer to it as the “Nunavut” region???”
I should have because sometimes I would ask to inspect it and they said they wanted Nunavut.
I can’t stand the term African American. The following post pretty much sums up my views on the subject:
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=your_stupid_ideas