Where do I live?
Nov. 12th, 2002 09:36 pmOnly in my neighborhood could this happen.
I'm leaving Walgreens, and there's a guy on the payphone. Late teens, early 20s, white, wearing b-boy type clothes (baggy jeans, hilfiger hooded sweatshirt, timbaland boots, ski cap). He's having a heated discussion.
"Can you believe that? So messed up.....I mean, he said it was because of my clothes, but I think it's because I'm straight.....No, I know, I'm gonna be broke forever -- I've looked for jobs all over this neighborhood and there's nothing!"
Honey, you may have been dressed cute for a Saturday in the club, but not for a job interview.
***And even if he didn't get the job for being straight, it's still an amusing and rare statement. Or maybe I'm just affected by working all day everyday with people being discriminated for being LGBT or HIV positive and I don't believe in reverse oppression. Maybe it's just me.
I'm leaving Walgreens, and there's a guy on the payphone. Late teens, early 20s, white, wearing b-boy type clothes (baggy jeans, hilfiger hooded sweatshirt, timbaland boots, ski cap). He's having a heated discussion.
"Can you believe that? So messed up.....I mean, he said it was because of my clothes, but I think it's because I'm straight.....No, I know, I'm gonna be broke forever -- I've looked for jobs all over this neighborhood and there's nothing!"
Honey, you may have been dressed cute for a Saturday in the club, but not for a job interview.
***And even if he didn't get the job for being straight, it's still an amusing and rare statement. Or maybe I'm just affected by working all day everyday with people being discriminated for being LGBT or HIV positive and I don't believe in reverse oppression. Maybe it's just me.
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Date: 2002-11-13 07:20 am (UTC)(and an extra one for using that hot icon picture in my journal!)