Posted on 08/16/2020 1:28:32 PM PDT by dangus
I filled out the census card like six times already and it's not my fault I've been doing genealogy research, lately.
(Details have been changed to maintain my privacy)
Census worker: OK, I just have to ask this. You're not Hispanic are you?
Me: Si.
CW: *looks up at me, disapprovingly.*
Me: Non.
CW: I have to ask this. Are you black?
Me: No.
CW: [Wife]'s white, too?
Me: Yes.
CW: Is [Wife] female?
Me: You're asking about the household on April 1, you said, right?
CW: Yes.
Me: You can him down as female.
CW: Your son?
Me: Definitely not female. At least not yet.
CW: No, is he white?
Me: No, but we're working through it.
CW: *Eyes confirms he gets the jokes* And what ethnicities or nationalities live here.
Me: [Son]'s French, [Lebanese], [Polish], [Portguese], [Italian], probably some [Arabic], [Swabian]... they're kinda like [Germans] who got lost in what used to be [the Soviet Union], but they were [Prussians] in what was then [Belarus] but is now [Poland], Basque but French, not Hispanic, hey, are they native-American if they're from [Peru]?
CW:
Me: Sorry, I'm having fun with Geneaology.
CW: Can I put American?
Me: Do they have "Rohirrim?" I just found out I have ancestors from the House of Rohan, even though I presumed Tolkein just made that up!
CW: I'll take that as a "yes."
Me: (with no intentional accent) Si. My accent gave me away, didn't it?
CW: I'm done here.
Me: Be well! I mean that! (I did. )
I find sometimes once I get in a roll, I really do SAY most of the things I wish I's said, but I did think later of this, which sad to say, didn't actually happen.
CW: Is he white?
Me: (pointing to the largely Asian neighbors') What... ya figure Asian, right?
I put down natural born citizen for everyone in my household.
The inmates always listened better than he ever did.
Those Canadians sure fight a LOT about how they pick their Military Police.
Members of Parliament.
The West keeps voting against them and losing.
One male adult US citizen. Good bye census taker. Now get the eff off my porch. SLAM!
You might want to re-read the OP and reassess whether that might’ve been a joke.
Its Indiana. I’d be ok with an over count.
Never make the mistake the Empire made. Never trust that they are just harmless teddy bears.
Well, mostly.
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