Author Topic: I don't want foreigners in my house... Bouncy Alert (Read 3758 times)

dandi · « **on:** May 18, 2010, 09:07:25 PM »

They never get tired of just sitting around dreaming this shit up.

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one_voice (556 posts) Tue May-18-10 07:24 PM
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I don't want foreigners in my house...
that's what a customer said to my husband this evening.

My husband got a call during dinner from a customer complaining about an installer that was to address a problem she has. She was very upset that the installer "sounded" foreign, and she didn't want any foreigners in her house. Through the course of the conversation she asked my husband to come and address the problem rather than the foreigner. My husband said of course he'd come and take a look at the problem, he then gave her his name (he's Hispanic). He said there was an audible "oh shit" sigh, and then she said "so you're a foreigner too?". My husband tried to explain that he's not a foreigner he was born in this country, she said "but you don't have an American name". My husband assured her he was as American as she is. But she continued on with the whole "foreigners are bad, not be trusted etc".

The call ended with her thinking about if she could let him in her house.

My husband had to be polite and put up with this ignorant sack of shit bigot. You could see that it upset him that she acted like this, and he had to take it (not a lot of jobs out there right now).

I don't think it would make a difference if he told his boss about the problem, because the company he works for is connected with Home Depot...need I say more.

I think these kinds of things are going to be seen more and more, and I blame the fringe right for this kind of stuff. They've made every bigot, racist, homophobe nut case think it's ok to say horrible things to whoever they deem to be "different/wrong".

I'm sad because I feel like we're going backward instead of forward.

I just felt like getting that off my chest. Thanks for "listening"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8362882

The responses are predictable - everyone buying it hook, line and sinker, or at least pretending to.

kenth · « **Reply #1 on:** May 18, 2010, 09:14:57 PM »

I went on a service call once and had the customer call my place of employment because he didn't think we (my particular ethnic group) knew anything about computers.

soleil · « **Reply #2 on:** May 18, 2010, 09:17:06 PM »

I could see my grandma being that way. Really.

blitzkrieg_17 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 18, 2010, 09:32:42 PM »

This bouncy sucks. Not only that, it broke all over the floor. Excuse me while I clean it up.

Ballygrl · « **Reply #4 on:** May 18, 2010, 09:43:26 PM »

I call

BEG · « **Reply #5 on:** May 18, 2010, 09:59:07 PM »

Quote from: soleil on May 18, 2010, 09:17:06 PM

I could see my grandma being that way. Really.

My grandma is a tad racist too (and a Democrat) but even she wouldn't do what the OP said that customer did. The post is total BS.

Boudicca · « **Reply #6 on:** May 18, 2010, 10:44:20 PM »

Someone take a carton of cigs over to the mental giants

at the DUmp; after getting themselves all excited and revved up over this

, they probably could use a good smoke. Bouncies are better than sex to these :loser:s.

Duchess · « **Reply #7 on:** May 18, 2010, 11:31:48 PM »

Quote from: BEG on May 18, 2010, 09:59:07 PM

My grandma is a tad racist too (and a Democrat) but even she wouldn't do what the OP said that customer did. The post is total BS.

For real. It's a lie. She supposedly said "foreigner", not "Hispanic" or "Mexican", so would that mean she wouldn't want someone with an Irish or Polish last name either? No one would say "foreign last name", practically every other person's name in this country is of other than WASP origin.

The Village Idiot · « **Reply #8 on:** May 19, 2010, 12:15:01 AM »

You know what. It's YOUR house, you have every right to choose who does and does not enter it.

PatriotGame · « **Reply #9 on:** May 19, 2010, 02:06:38 AM »

Quote from: kenth on May 18, 2010, 09:14:57 PM

I went on a service call once and had the customer call my place of employment because he didn't think we (my particular ethnic group) knew anything about computers.

Weeeeeeeeeeell, your name IS "kenth" which is such an obvious....American name!!

LC EFA · « **Reply #10 on:** May 19, 2010, 02:15:06 AM »

I've worked in customer service for a good few years - There are people like that out there.

Of course, I took more offense to the whiny little gits from generation Y who thought the world owed them something and acted accordingly. Didn't stop me doing the job though.

Go figure.

delilahmused · « **Reply #11 on:** May 19, 2010, 03:22:38 AM »

I find it so amazing that there's always a rash of bouncies related to whatever the current outrage is.

Cindie

zeitgeist · « **Reply #12 on:** May 19, 2010, 06:14:57 AM »

Quote from: PatriotGame on May 19, 2010, 02:06:38 AM

Weeeeeeeeeeell, your name IS "kenth" which is such an obvious....American name!!

Try changing it to something more oriential like Cah Ching, A number one computer repair.

Karin · « **Reply #13 on:** May 19, 2010, 08:04:38 AM »

duchess said

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practically every other person's name in this country is of other than WASP origin.

This is true, and it's what makes me doubt the story. What, unless you're named Illingsworth Chillinghead IV, you can't come into that person's home? You won't get any work done.

Anyway, now I'm curious as to Kenth's ethnicity.

lastparker · « **Reply #14 on:** May 19, 2010, 10:59:17 AM »

- 1 bong.

Everyone knows we say "ferrner".

Duchess · « **Reply #15 on:** May 19, 2010, 12:00:57 PM »

Quote from: Karin on May 19, 2010, 08:04:38 AM

duchess said
This is true, and it's what makes me doubt the story. What, unless you're named Illingsworth Chillinghead IV, you can't come into that person's home? You won't get any work done.

Anyway, now I'm curious as to Kenth's ethnicity.

And even then, what is the person's last name is, for instance, "Jefferson" or "Washington"- good old WASP names? Which are also stereotypically black these days? If someone was that set on keeping "furriners" out of their home, they wouldn't have much success weeding them out by last name. This bouncy, as is predictable, doesn't pass the test.

kenth · « **Reply #16 on:** May 19, 2010, 02:03:40 PM »

Quote from: Karin on May 19, 2010, 08:04:38 AM

duchess said
This is true, and it's what makes me doubt the story. What, unless you're named Illingsworth Chillinghead IV, you can't come into that person's home? You won't get any work done.

Anyway, now I'm curious as to Kenth's ethnicity.

Heh, American Indian, Choctaw specifically. The bouncy reminded me of it, as it happened about ten years ago. I was working for a small computer repair place in western North Carolina, and went on a service call in north Georgia for a Floridian customer.