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Date:         Thu, 22 Jun 1995 17:27:32 -0400 (EDT)
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From:         RGOLEN@umassd.edu
Subject:      Re: a racial issue??????

Excuse me Lars...but first off it was not a minor parking lot ding....nor was the twit (I CAN use this word without offending anyone can't I?) at all apologetic...in fact he was very arrogant AND indignant about the whole thing.

The car had just been painted less than a week or so before... there were plenty of EMPTY parking spaces in the lot, and the idiot (<--- no racial overtones here) decided to park right up next to my car...

Was the Scratching of the car a "get even with the RACIALtype description" as you say?? Hell no...I would do the same if the proverbial little old lady (oh, crap I've now committed the sin of attacking the elderly and the penis-impaired) pranged my door and told me to FCK off...

If you want to read racial over tones...incidentally in 1978 Cadillac began to change its marketing strategy because its marketing types found that the demographics of the car in the marketplace was perceived to be heavily black...and yes there were two blacks driving the Cadillac.. I couldn't help that...but I digress...

If you want to read racial overtones in this story...fine go ahead...no anti-racial intent was implied...

perhaps I should have written:

Two parking-ability-impaired non-gender or non-race specific persons parked their large, gas-guzzling automobile next to my small, recently painted automobile....

The door-pranging non-gender, non-race specific passenger said "ah, fellow human being, do not fret (oops does that imply I'm picking on Southern-US types) because your automobile is only a lowly small automobile compared to my friend's large, luxurious automobile...and I do not regret my actions in my negligent damaging of your car...."

Bottom line...no racial overtones were intended, I reported the event the way it happened...if you want to read into it anything else...so be it.

Politically Incorectly Yours,

Ric


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