Tuesday, January 20, 2009

With a Shake of the Head

So, Random (African-American) Stranger walked up to me in the library:

RAAS: May I tell you something?

Me: Hmmm?

RAAS: You are so beautiful.

Me: [blank stare/dazed smile]

RAAS: Are you part black?

Me: [blanker stare/more dazed smile/shake of the head] I don't know.

RAAS: Do you know why I ask that?

Me: No.

RAAS: [Makes complimentary but innappropriate comment about certain "attributes" that I have that my "white sisters," er, lack] . . . If you have Jenny Craig's telephone number lying around you need to tear it up and throw it in the trash!!"

Then Random African-American Stranger disappears as quickly as he came [note: this guy had to have been in his thirties or forties, at least].

I'm not making this up.

I don't know whether to feel complimented or horrified . . .

3 comments:

  1. Yeah....that sounds even weirder than some of my encounters.

    No, you are not the only one that wonders that.

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  2. That's pretty bizarre. J. boggles too. "'Scarring' is the word you're looking for," he says.

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  3. Definitely horrific. -shudders- creepy.

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