Hadn't thought about that angle. Someone "dropped" something in it?
Posted on 03/12/2011 10:13:21 AM PST by paltz
Charlie Rangel's deputy chief of staff, Geoffrey Eaton, threw such a fit over a missing umbrella during Thursday night's downpour at Harlem's popular Chez Lucienne restaurant that management had to call police to escort him out.
According to witnesses, Eaton, 52 -- who's also president of the NAACP's Midtown branch -- flew into a rage after a meal alone at the bar of the Lenox Avenue bistro when the staff couldn't find the umbrella he insisted he'd left by the door on his way in.
"He yelled at everyone, even the customers," said the manager on duty, who asked not to be named. "We said, 'We'll give you another umbrella.' Other people offered . . . we said, 'If that's not enough, we'll pay for your cab home.' Because I know him, I let him stay for a while. I talked to him nicely, as I do with all of my customers. We tried to calm him down. I have never seen him that way. Maybe something went a little wrong."
BET.com contributor Bevy Smith, who was dining separately at the bistro, told us, "He cursed out the entire waitstaff, and everyone was trying to appease him. He was like, 'Bleep that, I want a bleeping umbrella, why the bleep can't you find it?' "
"I said, 'Shhhh.' He yells at me, 'Bleep you, and mind your own bleeping business . . . you're a disgrace to our race.' "
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Is anyone else wondering what he was hiding in the umbrella?
Let’s see he was dining in Harlem and his umbrella was allegedly stolen. I Blame Whitey.
Maybe he just needed a nap and his wubby?
LOL!!!
Hadn't thought about that angle. Someone "dropped" something in it?
Amazing that he can insert race into a “missing” umbrella tirade!
Does anybody believe he ever had an umbrella to begin with?
Nah, he’s down in Cleveland, TX putting a lid on the rape case there. After all, it’s 28 of “his people” who stand unfairly accused of raping an 11 year-old Hispanic girl.
Geoffrey Eaton
Must be she doesn't play the race or victim card.
He probably falsifies his tax returns like his boss.
Especially if he suspect a white person might have taken it!
Always the victim.
There are pigs everywhere in Washington DC now.
Always.
Another noble Black male.
You’re a disgrace to our race.But I’m not LOL.
You just know it’s Bush’s fault.
“Amazing that he can insert race into a “missing” umbrella tirade! “
Well, the umbrella was black so race must have had something to do with it. If it walks like a duck...
;)
Drunk, conceivably? Just possibly?
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