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I was waiting for some friends to show up at an art gallery this morning. One showed up, and it being 45 minutes before the opening of the gallery anyway, we decided to go get some coffee and then come back to wait for the rest of our friends.
We walk 3 blocks to Starbucks, at which point I open my wallet to find that instead of the $15ish I thought I had, I had $1.75. My friend suggested we go the the McDonald's up the street and look for an ATM.
We arrive at the McDonald's and see that there's no ATM inside. I decide at that point that McDonald's coffee is good enough, so while walking towards the counter and counting the money in my hands, I loudly announce to my friend "I guess this ghetto coffee will have to do."
I look up from the change in my hand to see that every single one of the staff behind the counter is black, and is giving me a disgusted look of confusion and anger. Sheepishly, I ordered a medium black coffee and got out of there as quickly as I could.
I'm an asshole. :X
 
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Good fun read during work hour 
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starbucks is bullshit coffee dude. enjoy your sugar water. but fucking hilarious. i've been in positions like that before.
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Art gallery... StarBucks... Hmmm, things are adding up.
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Looks like you'll be wearing a fake mustache to that McDonalds from now on.
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Good quote from a rapper.
"Ghetto aint a god damn adjective"
I hope you felt real bad after.
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If not knowing how much money there is in your wallet means to be an asshole, so am I. It's not your fault dude, it's your wallet's fault.
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Damn wallets stealing ur moneys. Fuck wallets.
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Wait why were all the people working at this McDonald's black lol? I thought that they had some diversity quotas...
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On February 18 2011 04:07 Chef wrote:
Art gallery... StarBucks... Hmmm, things are adding up.
no kidding.. I'd be less concerned about being an asshole and more concerned about being a tool.
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On February 18 2011 04:15 Reason.SC2 wrote:
Wait why were all the people working at this McDonald's black lol? I thought that they had some diversity quotas...
The part of town where the mcdonalds is might have alot of black people in it. The boss could be biased towards black people, too.
I hope you learned your lesson about using that as an adjective, OP.
Edit; but it's not like someone should take a racial offense towards the word. All types of races have lived in ghettos at one point or another (jews, immigrants on the east cost, black people). But you could take offense to it if you've lived in one before.
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I fail to see how this makes you an asshole. To most young people ghetto is just another way of saying cheap. People can be so sensitive.
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sounds like you wanted to get your ass beat lol
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People in the states find ghetto to you a derogatory term? I had no idea, you can go around calling eachother spazzes but using ghetto as an adjective is a sin? :S
Though like the guy above said art gallery, starbucks... :X.
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There's an asshole in side of us all.
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Oh man, foot in mouth really sucks. I had a similar incident while working at a waterpark. All attendees have to wear these waterproof bracelets that we put on them as they come through the entrance. Anyway, this roughly 10-yr-old boy and his dad come up to the entrance and the son's limping a bit. I didn't look closely 'cause I was getting bracelets for them and I just casually said "Hey man, how are y'all today? Did you hurt your foot or something?" And I looked down and he just had a stub there...
Holy crap did I ever switch the subject so fast and just tell them to have a nice day!
Looking before we speak doesn't happen all the time, haha.
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On February 18 2011 04:26 DoubleZee wrote:
I fail to see how this makes you an asshole. To most young people ghetto is just another way of saying cheap. People can be so sensitive.
Young people don't know what a word means, how could people who do know what it means possibly be offended by it?
Did I seriously just read that?
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On February 18 2011 04:22 goiflin wrote:
Edit; but it's not like someone should take a racial offense towards the word. All types of races have lived in ghettos at one point or another (jews, immigrants on the east cost, black people). But you could take offense to it if you've lived in one before.
Well theres another reason they could have been offended (which isnt really race-realted)
Lets say they all live in that area and don't have a lot of money, and thus don't get their $5 venti extra-hot vanilla lattes from starbucks like some people. Its possible that they could understand you calling the McDonalds coffee ghetto as you saying that you are better than them or that the stuff they serve/eat is not good enough for you.
But yes its true, the term ghetto has nothing to do with black people. Its actually quite sad that this correlation exists  .
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Reminds me of a funny incident...I was going to a baseball game with a couple buddies that I didn't know that well. I had played ball hockey with them a few tiems but other than that knew nothing about them. On our way to the stadium I noticed the one guy was walking with a pretty severe limp. Now I had just played bal hockey with him for a few hours the week before and didn't notice anything wrnog with how he was running. So I blurted out "hey man, why are you gimping it up? hurt your knee or something?"
Turns out he had a spinal birth defect o something and and had a bunch of surguries before the age of 12. He threatened to beat my ass then we all laughed it off. Haven't seen that guy since...lol
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