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Malacandra
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Not if all Chessic is doing is accurately reporting Jamal's AAVE, which has been earlier established hereabouts to be genuine and respectable language in its own right.
Not if all Chessic is doing is accurately reporting Jamal's AAVE, which has been earlier established hereabouts to be genuine and respectable language in its own right.
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Hawkeyeop
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Maybe you could ask some nice tourists how to work the fare machine.
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Rigamarole
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Maybe if you hadn't stopped to get your shoes shined by that little Negro boy you would have had more time to pay for the train.
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Attack from the 3rd dimension
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Raising the possibility that this is all a whoosh
By the way, not to get hung up on the details, but in the OP the interaction is described as racist. Aside from being of a different race from the OP -which I suspect is genetic - did Jamal do anything to deserve this description?
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Chessic Sense
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Nooooo, they paid for it and then it broke. Now I'm waiting for Metro to send me a new one, but of course they're late with that.
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Chessic Sense
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I did! PTJMEE was working it. I did exactly what an honest citizen would do. I could have easily tailgated my way back out the gate and pretended to have a metro card. I've done that before when I accidentally miss my timed slot through the gate. No problem whatsoever.
Why didn't I go to the starting station's kiosk? Because by the time I was done screwing around with the machines, the train was pulling in. No time.
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Captain Amazing
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Nitpick, but 9 am.
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MeanOldLady
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Don't go there.
It's more like you have a pre-paid card, don't have enough money on it to buy what you want on it, all reloading machines but one are broken, so instead of waiting for the one functioning machine, you just take the Big Mac, eat it, and pay for it when it's convenient.
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Chefguy
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Those fuckers with GEDs don't deserve to live. I suppose if he was on welfare instead of working, we'd be treated to an earful of that.
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Cheshire Human
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Jack Batty
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Good thing he got to work on time so he could spend all day bitching about Jamal on a message board.
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pbbth
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Why the hate for tourists? I love tourists! As a NYC resident I am fully aware that the entire reason this city has the museums, restaurants, shows, and events I love is because of the tourists who come here and spend their money in my fair city. In fact the only reason we have such rockin' public transportation at such a low cost to me is because of all the tourists. Seriously, I can go anywhere in the city at pretty much any time of day or night for less than $90 per month because of the millions of people that spend 4 or 5 days here at a time and pay $2.25 per ride to supplement the MTA cash flow. If you have an issue with tourists in your city please send them here! I would love to have more people pouring their dollars into my local economy even if it does mean I have to wait for a train every now and again.
The National Archives is also free, and in addition to the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, also has the Magna Carta. Then there's the White House, Congress, the Supreme Court, the Congressional Library. I could go on for a long time.
Sheesh. Anyone who lives in D.C. and can't deal with tourists is in the wrong place.
National Museum of Health and Medicine has the bullet that killed Lincoln, and some of Booth's vertebrae.
One of the things I did like when I lived in Maryland was the ability to wander to D.C. and see something on a whim.
And the Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Well, hell, I should quit. There is something in Washington to suit the taste of every tourist, except, apparently, the Metro.
Sheesh. Anyone who lives in D.C. and can't deal with tourists is in the wrong place.
National Museum of Health and Medicine has the bullet that killed Lincoln, and some of Booth's vertebrae.
One of the things I did like when I lived in Maryland was the ability to wander to D.C. and see something on a whim.
And the Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Well, hell, I should quit. There is something in Washington to suit the taste of every tourist, except, apparently, the Metro.
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MeanOldLady
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I, too, have an incredibly large penis. Or, I would if I were male. What if the female equivalent of "My dick is bigger than yours?" Because whatever it is, it's true.
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Freudian Slit
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Well, I was actually being sarcastic because of the OP's mention of how he was wearing a slacks and a tie instead of a fanny pack. Clearly, jumping the line is a-OK as long as a fanny pack isn't involved. I think the jury's still out when it comes to carrying a camera and wearing shorts.
ETA: Also, I'm kind of confused as to what the OP wanted the worker to do. The guy clearly couldn't add money on the train, so why was he telling him instead of asking the station manager?
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olivesmarch4th
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Here's a better example:
Translation: ''You should know that I'm trustworthy, racist inferior Metro employee, because I'm not a poor minority.''Chessic Sense said:
Gosh, I can't imagine why DC is not a utopia of social harmony, what with Chessic trying so hard to treat others with equality.
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Rand Rover
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Nope. You are a rule-breaking douche. You broke the rules just to save yourself a few minutes, and you could have easily avoided the whole situation (by loading up your card on your way to or from work on a previous day). So, you get no sympathy or support from me.
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Cheshire Human
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Especially since you probably spent that same amount of time dicking around with Jamal, anyway.
Good point, Telemark.
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Chessic Sense
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Jamal's not racist. At least, I don't have any evidence that he is. The whole Metro crew, on the other hand, is...questionable. There's the time the cops were stopping people for being drunk or whatever, 'cept it turned out that they were stopping a lot of White people. There was the employee who actually said out loud "See? This is what I hate about White people!" There was the cop who stopped me and started questioning me. "What's the stop for, officer?" "You said something under your breath." HUH? That's illegal now, is it?
So I said "Fuck you" to a lot of employees in the OP. That doesn't mean I think every one of them emcompasses all those characteristics.
If I had read this from someone else when I was living in Pittsburgh, I'da called "bullshit" too. But then I moved here. Hell, even backwoods Mississippi didn't have this much racial tension. I've been told by a lot of people that it's because of the vast income divide in this city. The Black population is significantly poorer than the White population which causes some class warfare. So fine, Metro employees, (some of) you want to play that way? At least I'm on the top, looking down.