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My awesome grandad flew in Wellingtons in the war. Damn, those shortages were terrible. Tell us about brilliant-stroke-rubbish grandparents.

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(, Thu 2 Jun 2011, 21:51)
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Not really mine so it may not count.
I work as the handyman/gardener in a nursing home for people with dementia (mostly "low-care" - whatever that may entail). In the last 2 weeks we have had an Anglo-Indian lady in respite who I've had the pleasure to meet. I had to change her taps to paddles & put soft dome washers in to alleviate the problems she had turning the taps on/off due to her arthritis.
She described herself as "old school", she's told me all about her many servants that she had and how her life as the wife of a British Officer in the colonies was far greater than the service she was getting now in respite. I told her how I was born in Africa and had grown up with a family of Sikhs - which appeared to greatly improve her esteem of me.
Then she told me about how she rang the local council when her family first moved to Australia and she asked them where she could get a house-boy (servant). Supposedly she never got an answer but for all the effort it took me to keep a straight-face I would've paid to have been a fly on the wall @ that council office on that day.
Old people's racism lulz.
(, Thu 9 Jun 2011, 7:31, 4 replies)
Why is that racist?

(, Thu 9 Jun 2011, 7:58, closed)
I'm confused.
She's part Indian, likes you due to your African/Sikh background, and once wanted a servant ... where's the racism lulz?

Edit: just read some of your other answers, don't worry about it.
(, Thu 9 Jun 2011, 10:06, closed)
That edit made me snort.

(, Thu 9 Jun 2011, 10:44, closed)
It must be
a cultural thing.
EDIT: Find me a house-boy in Australia please (with no sexual connotations).
(, Thu 9 Jun 2011, 11:19, closed)

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