Decade
09-09-2005, 04:22 PM
I have recently gone on a summer abroad to Hong Kong and had the time of my life, but have had some pretty crazy shit happen to me or around me too. I wanted to share one of the stories of my time in Hong Kong here and if I'm lucky maybe AZ will put it up under one of the editorials on his site.
You know, there are some stories that you hear that you don't know if you should actually believe. Then there are some stories you hear that you wonder if you should actually write about. Then there are some stories that you just can't keep to yourself and have to share with the world.
I worked at a US-based bank in Hong Kong over the summer. I had a boss, but her boss lives and works in the States. About once a year she comes to visit and check on how things are running in the Hong Kong Office.
My boss's boss is a big, loud, black woman born and raised in NYC, so for the sake of the story I'll call her Biggie. While visiting the Hong Kong branch of the bank I worked at, she decided she wanted to visit the head of the HR department, who I'll call Terry. Terry had just gone on a trip around the world and Biggie decides to ask her about it, even though she hates Terry with a fiery passion because she messed up some business plans of hers before.
Terry and Biggie then go on to have one of the most ignorant, crazy conversations I ever heard of in my life.
Biggie: "So Terry, how was your trip?"
Terry: "Oh, Biggie! It was great! I went to London, and it was nice! I went to Paris, and it was beautiful! And Biggie, I went to your home country!!"
Biggie: "My home country? You mean Brooklyn?"
Terry: "Nooooooo, I went to South Africa!!"
Ho-oly SHIT, Terry has decided to act as the most Retarded Ambassador for the countries she visited, including South Africa to which she must have believed every black person in the world comes from. You can imagine how this left Biggie pretty much speechless...for about 5 seconds. The conversation continued as follows:
Biggie: "No, no, Terry, I don't think you understand, I'm African-American!"
Terry: "Hahaha, I know! :rolleyes: And I visited Africa, your first home!"
Ho-oly SHIT, please stop now Retarded Ambassador Terry. I was thinking to myself by now this bitch must be doing this on purpose and that even in Hong Kong where Black people are much more scarce than back home for example, she must be doing this just to start some shit. Of course I'm wrong, and she really is just that stupid.
Biggie: "No, no, Terry you don't get it. My family has lived in the United States for generations."
Terry: "Sure, but your people came from there."
:eek: RAT, please stop now RAT
Biggie: "NO Terry, you don't understand, my families been in the states for GENERATIONS, and they're actually from the Carribbean! I'm technically not even "actually" African-American!"
Terry: "Oh...it's still such a beautiful country you had though ;) ..."
...How Biggie didn't stomp on RAT right there is beyond me. Meanwhile, the other interns and I hearing this story play out are just sitting there like deer in headlights :eek: It amazes me that someone can say something that would totally shock and offend someone and not even notice it.
In short, some people just don't know how to talk to a bitch.
You know, there are some stories that you hear that you don't know if you should actually believe. Then there are some stories you hear that you wonder if you should actually write about. Then there are some stories that you just can't keep to yourself and have to share with the world.
I worked at a US-based bank in Hong Kong over the summer. I had a boss, but her boss lives and works in the States. About once a year she comes to visit and check on how things are running in the Hong Kong Office.
My boss's boss is a big, loud, black woman born and raised in NYC, so for the sake of the story I'll call her Biggie. While visiting the Hong Kong branch of the bank I worked at, she decided she wanted to visit the head of the HR department, who I'll call Terry. Terry had just gone on a trip around the world and Biggie decides to ask her about it, even though she hates Terry with a fiery passion because she messed up some business plans of hers before.
Terry and Biggie then go on to have one of the most ignorant, crazy conversations I ever heard of in my life.
Biggie: "So Terry, how was your trip?"
Terry: "Oh, Biggie! It was great! I went to London, and it was nice! I went to Paris, and it was beautiful! And Biggie, I went to your home country!!"
Biggie: "My home country? You mean Brooklyn?"
Terry: "Nooooooo, I went to South Africa!!"
Ho-oly SHIT, Terry has decided to act as the most Retarded Ambassador for the countries she visited, including South Africa to which she must have believed every black person in the world comes from. You can imagine how this left Biggie pretty much speechless...for about 5 seconds. The conversation continued as follows:
Biggie: "No, no, Terry, I don't think you understand, I'm African-American!"
Terry: "Hahaha, I know! :rolleyes: And I visited Africa, your first home!"
Ho-oly SHIT, please stop now Retarded Ambassador Terry. I was thinking to myself by now this bitch must be doing this on purpose and that even in Hong Kong where Black people are much more scarce than back home for example, she must be doing this just to start some shit. Of course I'm wrong, and she really is just that stupid.
Biggie: "No, no, Terry you don't get it. My family has lived in the United States for generations."
Terry: "Sure, but your people came from there."
:eek: RAT, please stop now RAT
Biggie: "NO Terry, you don't understand, my families been in the states for GENERATIONS, and they're actually from the Carribbean! I'm technically not even "actually" African-American!"
Terry: "Oh...it's still such a beautiful country you had though ;) ..."
...How Biggie didn't stomp on RAT right there is beyond me. Meanwhile, the other interns and I hearing this story play out are just sitting there like deer in headlights :eek: It amazes me that someone can say something that would totally shock and offend someone and not even notice it.
In short, some people just don't know how to talk to a bitch.