Thanks to Dubya (no relation)
I was the recipient of some very hostile looks in the post office. This country is going to the dogs, I swear! I was standing in line this last winter to buy stamps for Christmas cards. The PO came out with some really cool ones honouring Eid Al-Fitr and Eid Al-Adha (the big post-Ramadan shindigs) web.archive.org/web/20021205222224/http://shop.usps.com/cgi-bin/vsbv/postal_store_non_ssl/display_products/productDetail.jsp?OID=2689760
which happened to occurs around the holidays in 2006.

When I stepped up to the window, I was met with a smile. As soon as I asked for the Eid stamps, I got a nasty cold look and some sniffs from adjacent customers. I was bewildered at the abrupt about-face until I caught sight of my tall, blonde, blue-eyed, farmwife built, jeans-wearing self in the mirror. I had a big black scarf wrapped around my head, covering my head, neck and shoulders.

Evidently a big black scarf means you are a dangerous Muslim. With everything else about me screaming "tubby-middleaged-Midwestern-Anglican-housewife", I was mistaken for a scary ladee Muslim.

Going to the dogs, I tell ya!
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Thu 31 May 2007, 22:26, Reply)