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Wednesday, September 28, 2005

normal subway bullshit

A funny or rather ironic incident happened today, it is almost Ramadan , and part of celebrating and practicing of Ramadan is for, a person to look ramadanish I guess a such name would apply, well I tired to grow a beard , and a beard on a middle eastern looking kind-of-guy, some times no beard is required just looking the way you are is enough,it is considered a no no here.
I was riding the subway on the second stop, two chubby girls , entered the sub one preferred to stay near the door with gazing eyes toward me ,and one had a seat on the opposite side of my seat, they started chatting,babbling about all kind of bullshit, and then they started to make fun of the idea, that if I maybe decided to do something wired, or maybe"suspicious", I knew it was me they might be talking about , for the fact they really dont care , girls from this side of twon really dont care if you knew or not,"we were here first, on a ship or not" I had to listen to their bullshit for the whole long minutes, one of them started to putting cross signs on her body , and soon pointing to her girl friend at me.
I thought to my self how ironic this situation must be, I work in a gas station, in the poor side of the city, last night a gentleman took another gentleman’s wallet and ran off with it, this type of thing happens down here many times, to the point that when a white customer enters the door always have to have the robber-customer on apoint to where he basically can see him or something,

It strike as interesting that no long ago people in here , were and still are treated with some fear from the general white people , and yet they feel that a non looking whites , or non looking black will be a harm to them , if a beard on someone looks like me is scary , what about a beard growing competition men or women? , how about people with gun, crack heads so on, I thinkI forgot they don’t look like me, and beside there is no robbing or shooting competition goes in the down town.