Posted on 09/26/2009 10:01:56 AM PDT by Daffynition
SACRAMENTO, CA - Helen Hodges understood the need for a gas station clerk to write her identifying information on a sales receipt. She just wishes he had chosen a different phrase.
"It says 'black lady,' and I can understand that because I am a black lady," Hodges told News10. "But I don't get 'big fat.' I don't get that part."
Hodges, 31, said the offensive incident happened Thursday night after she was shorted $10 in a gas pump mix-up at a station on Marconi Avenue near the Capital City Freeway. When she returned to the station for a refund, a $10 bill was attached to a receipt with a handwritten notation "black lady big fat."
Hodges said it was her 6-year-old son who noticed the slight, which hurt even more. She tried contacting the manager, but is still waiting for an apology.
"The lesson they should learn is my money helps run that store," Hodges said. "And I won't be going back."
Uh, I get that part.
Guilty
Can’t say “black”.
Can say “fat” unless of course you’re the woman’s doctor. Doctors will tell you that their peers have been sued for telling a patient that they are fat and need to lose weight.
It was gasoline, right? Couldn’t he have written the license number of the car? Stupid.
Mrs. Hodges, I don’t mean to be unkind...but which part of that can you dispute?
And if you’re the doctor, you have to say “obese.”
They should do a hand-writing analysis on that.
Black woman - blue shirt.
Are we allowed to laugh?
B/c I think this is very funny!
A week or so ago, I posted a story where a family in a restaurant were offended by a note left on their tab describing the naughty child’s behavior; they were offended too.
What ever happened to calling ‘em like I see ‘em?
The note should have read, "big fat obese black lady".
Oh for god sakes buy the obese lady a mirror!
Black woman - blue tent.
Black woman....XXXXXXL blue shirt
“The lesson they should learn is my money helps run that store,” Hodges said. “And I won’t be going back.”
IMHO, she is taking the CORRECT action here. The owner, however misguided he/she may be in writing that on the receipt, isn’t immune from the consequences of such a statement.
Be nice, people. She’s probably somebody’s Momma...
Dang, what does she expect the attedant should have written on the receipt, “Brobdingnagian?”
big-boned
She’s spent too much time looking in the passenger’s side mirror.
I’d be pissed as well.
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