My "Overheard By A Wench" for this past weekend at Fling.

[ysobelle]

Sigh.

My "Overheard" this weekend was just pathetic. Acquaintance of several years stops by my booth to chat. We talk about what we've been up to. He mentions he's been doing more archery. Then the following exchange occurs:

He: "I like to practice in my front yard. It keeps the discolored people away."

Me: "...Pardon?"

He: "You know...not like us. White."

Me: Put drink down. Pick it up. Put it down again. "I'm sorry...what?"

He: "Oh, I mean, I have a black family in the neighbourhood I'm friends with, but now there are these Mexicans, and they're starting for form gangs, and...."

Me: Picks up drink. Turns back on him. Walks away. Informs booth staff that he is always to be told I am busy and not available to talk. No exceptions.

He: Unfriends me on FaceBook.


Just...wow.

Comments

[trillian-stars.livejournal.com]

Um... wow. I think you handled that extremely well!

[hughcasey.livejournal.com]

I did not catch this exchange this weekend... who was this?

And, I'm sorry... DIScolored people!?

[ravenskye8.livejournal.com]

Agreed with the "discolored people"... I mean, it's one thing to use an old term, it's another to decide to co-opt it to make up your own even worse newfangled phrase...

And the perfect icon...

[scarletwildfire.livejournal.com]

I love this icon!

[blkstarsapphire.livejournal.com]

I couldn't think of anything else to say aside from I'm sorry you had to deal with him...

*hugs*

[greene-man.livejournal.com]

More power to you. Not sure how I would have handled that exchange as I am not confrontational. If that person had been an old friend as opposed to a mere acquaintance, I probably would have called him on the carpet.

[kaige-of-ct.livejournal.com]

OMG

[bronxelf-ag001.livejournal.com]

Good. No loss on your part.

Next?

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

And he defriended you.

Well.
Isn't that special?

*hug* *hug* *hug*

I miss you already.

[sterling2905.livejournal.com]

That is just... stupid. Yup, no loss on your part. Now, how about you post a -positive- thing about the amazing weekend.... ;-) Love you!

raaaaaaaaaaaaaandom

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

http://community.livejournal.com/ihasatardis/697716.html

[freyas-fire.livejournal.com]

We will do our best to keep him away should he have the balls to come back up to the booth during the season. And if he does, I may have to "accidentally" boot him in the ass and send him face first into the strawberry bushes...then he can be "discolored" for the day. Asshole. I mean, WTF???? Why would you even think of saying something like that out loud????

Think he did you a favor by unfriending you. At least he (hopefully) got the point.