Have you ever been so offended?

[Losty]

Your choice....but be prepared for her to do it again. She is not going to change until you tell her off.

Probably at some point in my life I will grow so tired of them that I will tell them all to fuck off. Right now I just remind myself that I am a better person than they are. I help people out of the goodness of my heart with no agenda to push and I love people, even the ones like them who hurt me, because I'm just a loving person. They're wrong about me. I am good.

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I had almost the opposite experience. While at Uni, I (briefly) dated a Senegalese girl. I brought her home one week-end. Mum and Da made her welcome, there wasn't anything uncomfortable - until my Uncle Nick showed up. Once he got it through his thick, bog-trotter's skull that this girl and I were a couple, he began ranting about mixing races, God's will, not 'lying down with beasts' (meaning my girlfriend), and so forth.

I remember Da bellowing something about Uncle Nick not standing in Da's house and insulting a guest (at 6'7" and nearly 20 stone, Da could bellow with the best of them). I was prepared to clean my uncle's clock for him, my girl was crying, Mum was trying to keep my father from committing murder.

When the decibel level dropped a bit, Nick looked at me and said, 'You've got what you deserve.' I shoved him as my girl and I went out, told him I hoped he died alone and friendless and that I'd never speak to him again.

That was 23 years ago, and I haven't seen or spoken to him since.

Boru

That's awful! Your uncle must live a sad hate filled life.
Somehow even with all the religious nonsense I never had to put up with the race thing. Neither of our families seemed all that concerned with the race difference.