I was at John’s Harvard Brewpub last night when a trendy urban hipster girl sitting next to me leaned over and asked me if I knew Mandarin. I think I was a little bit shocked by the question at first, then I calmly replied “No, sorry.” The people I were with asked me what she had asked me; after I told them, the white girl in our group was probably the most upset for me.
You would think trendy hipster urbanites would be those least likely to make ignorant comments like that. You might expect old people who spent their whole lives in the boonies or anyone from the South to say stuff like that. But trendy looking 20 somethings from Cambridge, Massachusetts? From the so-called “People’s Republic of Cambridge”?
smack said
well… her mistake is that she didn’t preface her question by saying why she was asking you the question. i don’t personally think her question was offensive… ignorant, maybe but not offensive.
hippie trendy girl said
was she at least cute?
nerD said
well maybe you should learn Mandarin, branch out a little…
nerD said
you shoulda been like, “stop talking. turn around and let me see that ass.”