The Chit-Chat Thread

[CosmykTheDolfyn]

First day at my first job went all right, with the only trouble being some guy who busted in and started throwing everything and started yelling at all the employees and being quite racist to others.

I have a funny story along those lines. I've mentioned before that I work in the medical community. I am mixed race, and some people do mistake me as full blooded Hispanic every now and then.

So anyone, this 90 year old woman with dementia and no sense of proper manners comes in as a patient. I introduce myself to her. "Hi, my name is Charles and..."

And she starts screaming YOU'RE NAME ISN'T CHARLES!!! IT'S NOT CHARLES!!!

To which, I very kindly and slightly bewildered reply, "I'm sorry mam, I'm pretty sure my name is Charles."

She then replied, again yelling "I CAN TELL JUST BY LOOKING AT YOU THAT YOU'RE ONE OF THOSE D___ MEXICANS, AND MEXICANS DON'T NAME THEIR KIDS CHARLES, THEY NAME THEM CARLOS!!! QUIT LYING TO ME!!! YOUR NAME IS CARLOS!!!"

This was in a crowded room full of other patients and workers. I wound up with the nickname Carlos for quite a while.