When working for a fine dining restaurant in the fine fine city of Roslyn you get see a lot of men in pressed suits and elderly women with wrinkles. Wrinkles with a twinkle. And what do they say?
They say this:
65-75 year old woman: "Okay, but what about Chris Rock? He says the n word. He says, you know, he says, ho, he says, you know, he says bitches. What about that? I'm offended by him. Why did they take Imus off the air and not him?"
The other 65-75 year old woman: "I know. Chris Rock. Oh, that Chris Rock."
Then two tables over:
"Oh, I'd never eat bread."
"Yeah, I'll starve right up until the point where I'm sitting down at a table with a guy, who just ordered a strip steak, and then okay, I'll order a cobb salad. No dressing."
"Of course, no dressing."
And then another two tables over, a squadron of men with thick upper bodies and close cropped hair:
"The thing is, okay, so this black woman calls up the radio station and she's like, 'look, I can say those kind of things about black people, cuz I'm black. I can say them. You can't.' Can you believe that. She flat out says, I can say those things because I'm black and you white people can't. Now, if that isn't the most racist thing I've ever heard, if that isn't the definition of racism, then I don't know what is."
[Everyone ardently agrees.]
"Well, I mean what Imus said was pretty bad, but you know, still. C'mon."
And the last thing:
I walk up to bring coffee to an elderly gentleman and his girlfriend or something like that and they ask me a million and one questions.
"Are you a student."
"No, I graduated two years ago."
"TWO YEARS! You look fourteen."
"Oh, great! It's that Asian curse doing its worst."
"And where did you graduate from?"
"Stanford."
"So what are you doing here if you graduated from Stanford?"
"Oh, I don't know. Just felt like ruining my life! Haha!"
"And what's your name. You know, your real name."
"It's Jenny."
[Slow-ass smile engulfs face.] "No, what's your real name."
"Well, it's not Cho Chang if that's what you're wondering."
"So, where you born here."
"No, I was born in a tiny rice hut, swarming with squealing pigs and villagers with squinty eyes."
You know how there was this chain store named Rockbottoms and you were supposed to get rockbottom prices at this place, but it was a lie, so you would switch price tags, like you'd take the price tag off a Sandylion sticker and put it on a pair of sunglasses and then you'd get a pair of sunglasses for about $1.25, and you still weren't satisfied, so you stole the pair of sunglasses, stole the Sandylion sticker, and bought a stick of gum (so as not to be conspicuous,) and then you went outside and a bunch of girls who had wrists the size of your neck, and necks the diameter of your waste said, "Let's kill that stupid bitch!" and you thought, "Now, this
is rockbottom!"
Because guess what, I'm so there again.