alden405 said:The dumbest thing i have heard as of yesterday when wearing a tan Optimo
"I didnt know you are Jewish!"
Are you frikking kidding me?
alden405 said:The dumbest thing i have heard as of yesterday when wearing a tan Optimo
"I didnt know you are Jewish!"
alden405 said:The dumbest thing i have heard as of yesterday when wearing a tan Optimo
"I didnt know you are Jewish!"
Tango Yankee said:In this case they're not dumb, just ignorant and ignorance can be cured! At least they're trying to pay you a compliment even if they get the nomenclature wrong. Depending on the circumstances you may be able to gently educate them, or at least thank them.
Regards,
Tom
Jerekson said:Considering how much I've been wearing my black Akubra Squatter recently, I'm actually surprised to have never recieved the Jewish comment myself. Must just be my area or something...
Aerol said:Widebrim, forty years ago I was living in Manhattan... New York, not Kansas.
And I stand by my original comment.
MattJH said:South Street is Philadelphia's sort of artsy / urban / novelty strip, where the freaks and geeks come out at night. I was walking down to a coffee shop to grab a sandwich (I napped after work today and woke up starving) wearing my brown Akubra Federation IV Standard when two black kids passed me by. The one looks at me and says "Diggin' the hat, boy!" and gives me a thumbs up. I thanked him. Then his friend says "You look like Woody from Toy Story!"
I couldn't help myself and completely cracked up laughing. He joined in and we went on our separate ways.
scottyrocks said:I've been compliments left and right on my new brown Fed IV, but today one of my kids (1st grade) told me I look like 'Freddy (Kruger).' Hopefully he was talking about my hat and not my face! lol Oh well . . .
funneman said:I wasn't sure if he meant THIS Joe Jackson:
Or THIS one:
Pduck said:Were you wearing a baseball hat?
maggiethespy said:I recieved my first dumb comment this past Monday. I honestly thought it might never happen, and then it did. And it was good.
I have known PersonX for about 4 years-- we went to highschool together for 2, and we've taken at least 1 class together in college for the last three semesters. He asked me to prom-- it's not like we've never met before. I walked into class on Monday sporting saddle oxfords, cuffed jeans, and white blouse, and a yellow cardigan with a black cinch belt over it. I had my hair styled in a page boy with a roll in the front and a black ribbon bow-- this is the way I've been dressing for well over a year now, so nothing out of the ordinary.
PersonX felt the need to call out to me across the classroom as the professor is about to start class and ask me
"Did you just get out of time machine or something?"
I was apparently very quick-witted that day, because without missing a beat I replied:
"Yeah, Doc and Marty dropped me off. They have to fix the flux capacitor but they don't have to get any plutonium because it runs on a Mr. Fusion now, so it should be pretty easy."
Everyone laughed, and he kept his comments to himself
Jerekson said:Are you frikking kidding me?