A small thing, but it brightened my day...

CapCase

CapCase

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I went with my wife to Wal-Mart today. I started feeling kinda' ill (Wal-Mart does that to me) so I went to the front and sat on a bench waiting for my wife to finish her shopping. I was wearing a Buck Collectors Club t-shirt and jeans and I haven't shaved in two days. Anyway, a little boy came running up to me and said "Hi mister fireman" and gave me a big hug. Made my day. :)
 
Was at a Dairy -Queen on a very hot ,muggy day to buy the kids & I a treat. After a very long wait I was second behind some Negroes.Little black kid turned,grabbed my legs,tried to climb them all the time screaming DADDY ! DADDY ! DADDY !. :o :D Was I mortified !


Uncle [ Ain't mine ] Alan
 
uncle Alan said:
Was at a Dairy -Queen on a very hot ,muggy day to buy the kids & I a treat. After a very long wait I was second behind some Negroes.Little black kid turned,grabbed my legs,tried to climb them all the time screaming DADDY ! DADDY ! DADDY !. :o :D Was I mortified !


Uncle [ Ain't mine ] Alan
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Cute story, but you should edit it a bit to make it a little more P.C. for the Community Center! ;)

~ashes
 
Things like that make my day.

I was at a Starbucks and started shooting the **** with some people. When they found out I was in combat in Iraq they thanked me for my service. I didn't know what to say. They were so sincere, it almost made me tear up.
 
Ashes said:
Cute story, but you should edit it a bit to make it a little more P.C. for the Community Center! ;)

~ashes
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Barely computer literate. Need some young'un to make me a list of acronyms or whatever this /these things mean. Didn't reach 75 by being stupid but I ain't the fastest on the track either

Uncle [ be patient with me] Alan ;) ;) ;)
 
You know what made my day the other night? Cindy Denning. I love that woman; I was having a horrible day, and I had a lot of schoolwork, it was late, hot, and I felt like taking a bath when a toaster when all of the sudden I looked in my User CP and saw this rep point: "Needle Remorse!!! Hi, where have you been? Take care, Cindy :)" She wasn't complimenting a post filled with insight, just happy to know I'm alive. My mere existence was worth a chiclet! :cool:
 
uncle Alan said:
Barely computer literate. Need some young'un to make me a list of acronyms or whatever this /these things mean. Didn't reach 75 by being stupid but I ain't the fastest on the track either

Uncle [ be patient with me] Alan ;) ;) ;)
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P.C.? "Politically Correct." You can say "black people." ;)

You know what made my day the other night? Cindy Denning.
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Let's all give Cindy some green chiclets! :D She helped me out today too.

~ashes
 
Don't be too hard on Uncle Alan. He's from the same generation as my Mom, and until they were well into adulthood "negro" was a perfectly acceptable not-meant-to-be-offensive word. Just last year my Mom was telling me about the adorable little QUADROON girl she saw at the park.
 
I had an incident similar to Uncle Alan's last weekend. I took the girl I'm dating and her little neice to the mall to walk around for a bit. Well, she ran off to get some money from an ATM, so I'm sitting there playing with the neice when a woman comes up and says, "She really favors you." I turned around and asked what she meant, and she says "She looks just like you". I explained that she wasn't mine, that she was my gf's neice. She bent down, looked at the baby, looked back at me, and said, "She sure looks exactly like you..." I still don't think she believed me.
 
TorzJohnson said:
Don't be too hard on Uncle Alan. He's from the same generation as my Mom, and until they were well into adulthood "negro" was a perfectly acceptable not-meant-to-be-offensive word. Just last year my Mom was telling me about the adorable little QUADROON girl she saw at the park.
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We still have the United Negro College Fund, and in Kansas City there is a museum for the Negro Baseball league.



Thomas Zinn
 
NeedleRemorse said:
You know what made my day the other night? Cindy Denning. I love that woman; I was having a horrible day, and I had a lot of schoolwork, it was late, hot, and I felt like taking a bath when a toaster when all of the sudden I looked in my User CP and saw this rep point: "Needle Remorse!!! Hi, where have you been? Take care, Cindy :)" She wasn't complimenting a post filled with insight, just happy to know I'm alive. My mere existence was worth a chiclet! :cool:
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Yip, that's typical Cindy, she's great! :)
 
I'll let Uncle Alan's post remain unedited. I see no harm in it. After all, he is an old geezer and that's what he grew up with. I don't think he meant his comment to be a rascist remark. On that note let's get this thread back on topic and drop Uncle Alan's comment.
 
Hole. Never did I believe anyone would be offended by the word negro .Spanish "negrito" literally means black doesn't it? This PC crap is confusing the way you go at it.
Incidentally we spell it raCIST here, Mr. interlocutator.


Uncle [ old harmless geezer ] Alan says " To all a good night " ! :rolleyes: :D ;)
 
That's a great story CapCase. Thanks for sharing.

I think we're a very busy society, we don't take time to acknowledge/appreciate each other enough. I see it all the time, especially in my work with the elderly. I had one client that retained me to get a guardianship for his wife of 54 years, then he asked me to do estate planning work for him, then medicaid. On our last meeting in his medicaid case, we were driving back from the appointment and he said, "What are we going to do next? I think I need some more estate planning work done." I felt very honored that he liked me so much that he was looking for work for me to do for him. He's an amazing, very intelligent, gentleman who spent 31 years serving our country in the Navy. That conversation made my month. I would have told him that he could just come and visit me, but I know he's too proud to admit that he's lonely now that his wife is ill. :(

BTW, Uncle Alan is great. I think we should keep him. ;) :D (I don't see anything offensive about the word negro either. I just think that it's used a lot less frequently.
 
You know

It's so nice when a complete stranger can drop a comment that can lift your whole day

Makes ya believe in humanity again

I am 42 this year and there are words and phrases that I grew up with that are not considered pc anymore

times change so fast it's hard enough to keep up with life

To all who have served.........THANKS :D
 
Incidentally, we spell it "interlocutor" here, Mr. racist :p

I'm actually just kidding, I can understand how generations have different terms. In fact, just in the past 50 years the African American community has changed their own terms quite a bit (between afro american, negro, african american, black, colored etc.), so short of the dreaded "n" word, I think there can be some slack cut.
 
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