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Yeah. Clearly.

Latin guy behind deli counter: Do you need anything else, ma?
Crazy white lady: Don't call me “ma”! I'm not black, I'm not Spanish! I'm American!

–Key Foods, Park Slope, Brooklyn

  • Posted on November 5, 2010
  • Clerks, Crazies, Customers, Delis, Latinos, Nicknames & name calling, Park Slope, Questions, Race, Stupidity, White People
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