We used to regularly enjoy bouncy tales set at gas stations, convenience stores, and grocery stores.
A rude repuke would be put in his place by a wise commie.
As the chastised repuke crawled off in red-faced humiliation, applause would break out among admiring onlookers.
It was a tried and proven formula, and any DUmmy hinting at skepticism risked his DUmp cred.
That bouncy genre has slowly vanished, as masters of the format, like rsmithnumbers, have fallen by the wayside.
It's really nice to see it used in a current thread:
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 10:41 PM
Star Member friendly_iconoclast (11,664 posts)
Adventures in racism at the supermarket checkout line
http://boingboing.net/2015/07/02/adventures-in-racism-at-the-su.html
To excerpt:
Writer of piece is at supermarket checkout. In front of her are three AA women
First one attempts to use her EBT card-rejected for "incorrect PIN"
Other two attempt same, with same results, machine rejects all three PINs.
Shoppers say "We entered correct PINs" Cashier says:
"No, NSF or you all used wrong PINs" Bystanders pass hat, pay for groceries. Then:
I'm not telling you this story to give a warm fuzzy about the good Samaritans of Giant Eagle. I am telling it because of what happened next, after my stuff was checked out.
“I hate to say it,†the cashier said, which means she didn't hate to say it at all, “but people like that just don't keep track of their money. They think they have all of it on their cards, but they just don't budget well.â€
As I went to pay, I took out my debit card and entered my PIN.
Declined.
“My card was declined. It says I'm not using the right PIN.â€
She looked at me blankly for a moment. Then she said this:
"I'll get a manager."
Need I add that the writer is white?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026935081Nutcase nadin wishes she didn't know this shit:
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 10:45 PM
nadinbrzezinski (138,811 posts)
2. I wish I were surprised
thanks
This has got to be a mole:
Fri Jul 3, 2015, 12:28 AM
MattBaggins (7,679 posts)
6. If I had a nickel for every time
Somebody whispered "happy james earl ray day" to me.......
You know a bouncy is pretty good when it inspires other DUmmies to spin secondary bouncies:
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 11:06 PM
nilesobek (1,032 posts)
4. I've seen the clerks be mildly abusive
to white people too. At the local grocerteria I watched a male clerk humiliate and delay a couple buying groceries for their growing family on their WIC card. The clerk was dragging his feet and saying the WIC card #s didn't work. I was behind the line and protested LOUDLY about the way he treated this woman and her husband, an obvious combat vet home on leave, in uniform.
I caught myself behaving in a similar fashion when I worked for a year up the street at a convenience store. I was perturbed that a local woman, a tweaker, was spending her entire food stamp allowance, about 280$, in a convenience store.
Quickly I realized that the circumstances people live under are none of my business.
