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» Political Correctness Gone Mad
Political correctness not gone mad
So I was delivering a presentation to a client - I won't say who they are but they share a name with a high-street bank, a pharmacy and a chip-shop in Pwllheli.
There were about eight of them in the room - two of whom were black. I was offered a cup of tea and when asked how I take it I said "black no sugar thanks".
At this point the two black people in the room turned and looked at me and one of them, a very pleasant lady said in shcoked tones "what?!?!".
In this moment my life passed before my eyes - I thought, I'm going to be marched out of a very important meeting for being a racist - my boss is never going to let me go and meet a high profile client on my own again, and I'll never be able to ride up and down their cool outsidey lifts again.
All this thought happened in the tenth of a second between this lady saying "what?!?!" and then saying "you don't have milk in tea - everyone has milk in tea".
Not a particularly good story but I do always feel comfortable asking for black tea when I go to a client's.
(Sat 24th Nov 2007, 7:58, More)
Political correctness not gone mad
So I was delivering a presentation to a client - I won't say who they are but they share a name with a high-street bank, a pharmacy and a chip-shop in Pwllheli.
There were about eight of them in the room - two of whom were black. I was offered a cup of tea and when asked how I take it I said "black no sugar thanks".
At this point the two black people in the room turned and looked at me and one of them, a very pleasant lady said in shcoked tones "what?!?!".
In this moment my life passed before my eyes - I thought, I'm going to be marched out of a very important meeting for being a racist - my boss is never going to let me go and meet a high profile client on my own again, and I'll never be able to ride up and down their cool outsidey lifts again.
All this thought happened in the tenth of a second between this lady saying "what?!?!" and then saying "you don't have milk in tea - everyone has milk in tea".
Not a particularly good story but I do always feel comfortable asking for black tea when I go to a client's.
(Sat 24th Nov 2007, 7:58, More)
» Crazy Relatives
Uncle Auntie
I won't give names in order to protect the guilty...but anyway, my ex-nun auntie married a rather well-built chap (you know the type, pronounced adam's apple, well-built, skinheaded looks like he'd be handy in a fight) and they live on a bus together. After a while they split up - she becomes a lesbian and he decides to become a woman.
Now you can get surgery on the NHS, but in order to receive it you have to live as a woman for several years. So Uncle Auntie does this - in spite of having a pronounce adams apple, a five o'clock shadow and the physical presence of a bouncer.
Now he's done the time and (as the family legend goes) Uncle Auntie is in the hospital, getting prepped for his treatment. Then comes in a very important piece of news - his father has passed away unexpectedly.
With this news he gets out of bed and walks off, a man again. If he had got the news but hours later the job would have been done and he would never have been able to go back.
Who'd have believed it...
(Mon 9th Jul 2007, 11:42, More)
Uncle Auntie
I won't give names in order to protect the guilty...but anyway, my ex-nun auntie married a rather well-built chap (you know the type, pronounced adam's apple, well-built, skinheaded looks like he'd be handy in a fight) and they live on a bus together. After a while they split up - she becomes a lesbian and he decides to become a woman.
Now you can get surgery on the NHS, but in order to receive it you have to live as a woman for several years. So Uncle Auntie does this - in spite of having a pronounce adams apple, a five o'clock shadow and the physical presence of a bouncer.
Now he's done the time and (as the family legend goes) Uncle Auntie is in the hospital, getting prepped for his treatment. Then comes in a very important piece of news - his father has passed away unexpectedly.
With this news he gets out of bed and walks off, a man again. If he had got the news but hours later the job would have been done and he would never have been able to go back.
Who'd have believed it...
(Mon 9th Jul 2007, 11:42, More)