This post will read like a blog, so if you're a fag like BubbleBobble then you should save yourself the time and post how this isn't my blog or the ever popular "cool story bro."

Otherwise, if you're still reading, here's what happened to me. I was sitting in the food court, eating dinner with my family, when I felt a tug at my leg. This was my right leg, not my dick, for your perverted fucks. I looked over to see a young boy, probably 4-5 years old, of middle-eastern race, smiling and looking at me. I don't think something like this would happen in Iran, but this being America, he's probably used to seeing white, powerful men such as myself enjoying a plate of hot food in a mall food court.

I know that some people would find this annoying, and probably demand that the harlot he has for a mother be publicly stoned in front of the Hot Topic for not having this animal on a leash, but I felt it was just a kid having fun so I smiled back at him. I wish that we lived in a society where kids could be friendly like this, but we have too many perverts and predators to allow our children to socialize with strangers. I think this kid's enthusiasm for life just got the best of him so here he was, tugging on my pants.

I turned to my parents and told them that I had a visitor. They looked at the kid, smiled, and then went back to arguing about my dad's unemployment, which has lead to purchases at the flea market, by my mother, becoming less and less frequent. My dad still buys his Topps baseball cards everytime they go because they are an important necessity and he is a man so he decides how to spend the money. I don't know why I brought it up again, but I told them that I thought that the kid wanted to eat some of our food. My mom got scared and said, "You're moving with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air." I was devastated, but what could I do? Here I was, fraternizing with the people who bombed Pearl Harbor, and disrespecting my family in the middle of a fine eating establishment. I proceeded to continue eating my Chicken Fries value meal and I let the kid continue doing whatever it was he was doing next to me.

All of a sudden, the kid's mother came running up and jerked the child away in a manner that I think child services would like to hear about. She said to him in a voice loud enough for me to hear, "Do not talk to people who look like that." I normally get upset when someone is so blatantly racist, but realizing that I had done nothing wrong, and that Steak Escape had not fucked up my food, I decided to let it go. My phone rang and my buddy wanted to know where were going this weekend. I told him "yo holmes, to Bel-Air" and then told him that I had to go because I had to finish my steak sandwich. In some ways I wish that I had spoken to this woman who had so rudely and illegally disrespected me, because I feel that a stern talking to would have done her body good. I can't describe what she looks to all of you so that you can publicly chastise her because she was wearing one of this Hindu outfits that covers everything but the eyes. I guess if you see a woman like that at Cary Towne Center then it could be her.

Anyways, I know that many of you shop at Cary Towne Center, so I wanted to see if anyone else had experienced anything like that there or anywhere else in the Triad? If so, please post your experiences here. I think that things like this happen often in our surrounding community, and if we know how it affects each other then hopefully we can reduce the number of occurrences of such treatment. I'll go back to Cary Towne Center, but I doubt I'll ever eat at Steak Escape again.

2/7/2010 2:14:13 AM

i just got fresh princed

2/7/2010 2:16:59 AM

2/7/2010 2:17:47 AM

tl;dr, bro

2/7/2010 2:18:22 AM

td;dr.

2/7/2010 2:20:37 AM

Triad or Triangle, chief?

2/7/2010 2:22:10 AM

cool story bro

2/7/2010 2:22:25 AM

super cool story bro

2/7/2010 2:34:11 AM

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"she was wearing one of this Hindu outfits that covers everything but the eyes. "

That's not a hindu outfit you idiot. You can't even get a bell air fresh prince story right?

2/7/2010 2:38:56 AM

bell air lol

2/7/2010 2:41:04 AM

wtf. Not even a cool story bro.

2/7/2010 2:53:58 AM

olde timey barbeque gots dat mustard gravy.

2/7/2010 2:56:17 AM

HE GOT DAT 190% RACISM

[Edited on February 7, 2010 at 3:11 AM. Reason : can't even spell "dat" right ]

2/7/2010 3:11:29 AM

i laughed so hard at this story

2/7/2010 3:25:43 AM

http://www.youtube.com/user/raepmykipz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef3K-EB4Ryk&feature=player_embedded

[Edited on February 7, 2010 at 3:39 AM. Reason : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnQVkGcn7Vo&feature=related]

2/7/2010 3:36:02 AM

So, basically, you're moving to California because your mom is scared of Middle Eastern children eating your food?

I don't get it.

2/7/2010 3:52:58 AM

Btw, the outfit that covers everything but the eyes is called "hijab" or "burqa" and is a Muslim outfit, not a Hindu one.

2/7/2010 4:01:31 AM

I realize this thread is about those who have experienced racism at Cary Towne Center.... which I have not. Hear me out, maybe I can offer some insight.

I am in outside sales, which is currently salary+commission, but will move into straight commission starting at the beginning of July 2010. I have been in this position since July 2009. I have competition from several direct manufacturing sales reps, large distributors, and local distributors. Here are the advantages and disadvantages of each:

Direct Advantages: Immediate knowledge of new technology, no middle man mark up, one shipping bill (paid by manufacturer or buyer of goods), access to larger range of non-commodity items, control inventory, have access to many distributors that can effectively sell their goods which increases market share, and set prices of commodity they manufacture.

Direct disadvantages: Typically have 1-3 sales reps per region (i.e. southeast, mid-atlantic, northeast, etc.) limiting the number of accounts they can successfully manage/cold-call, lack physical customer service or physical technical service available to or affordable for smaller users or altogether, are sometimes not trustworthy because they will go in behind their distributors that sell their commodity to one account in large quantities (i.e. they missed a big account, and have found out about it through a distributor selling their particular product) which leads to the distributor not selling their product anymore, have too many distributors selling the product ultimately driving the set price down through deviations, possibly rely on distributors to actually sell the product, and competition from other direct sources.

Large distributor advantages: have access to other commodities that go hand in hand with other manufacturers (poor example- grocery stores sell milk as well as cereal), get direct pricing, many locations regionally or nationally easing the shipping burden of buyers with multiple locations, personal service either customer or technical, many sales reps that are able to cover a broader territory, access to multiple manufacturers of the same commodity allowing to keep prices in check, service programs that smaller companies can't offer and direct providers can't match in price or value, and experts of many many commodities as opposed to one or a few.

Large distributor disadvantages: smaller local distributors creating price wars (think Michael Scott Paper Co vs Dunder-Mifflin), direct mfg's going in behind and stealing business, limited access to all of the mfg's (you won't find Harris Teeter name brands in Food Lion and visa versa), can't truly set prices because it's based on both supply and demand, territory management, and tough growth prospects in slower economies (this is true for direct as well really)

Local distributor advantages: Typically a good ol' boy setting where the seller and the buyer know each other for years (this does happen at all levels, but mostly at the local level), local folks are right down the street and can be used in emergencies, if the local guy buys at high enough volumes then there is no shipping charge to the end user, and access to both direct mfg's and large distributors.

Local distributor disadvantages: easily beaten in price, array of commodities, array of technology, lack of trained staff, low cash flow, etc etc etc.

This is what I have noticed in my six months, I am sure there are plenty more that need mentioning. The way I am setting myself apart as a sales person is this: I go after the big accounts right now while I am new. The big accounts, if I land them, will take care of me while I am new and building a customer base. The money made off of those allows me to focus free time on smaller accounts that get me higher margins. I build up big accounts, I would like to have 5-10 of these, then get 20-30 medium accounts. If I lose 1 or 2 big accounts, the 20-30 medium accounts keep me afloat while I go after new big accounts. I don't really waste time on small accounts simply because they basically pay for breakfast or something really small.

I will say this, if you can't get a big account in the first 6-8 months (assuming you have cash flow that you can ride this long) you could be in a world of trouble. If you can get one, it will really make going after the others a lot more enjoyable and less stressful. It's simply just very exhausting wasting any time on anything other than big accounts in the very beginning. You work just as hard on the medium sized accounts and see 1/3 to 1/36 of the money in my situation.

If you have any other questions, you can PM me. I hope this helps in the slightest!

2/7/2010 4:26:15 AM

super cool story bro

i laughed so hard at this story

2/7/2010 7:15:16 AM

Quote :

"So, basically, you're moving to California because your mom is scared of Middle Eastern children eating your food?"

This is a legit concern of hers.

2/7/2010 7:17:35 AM

Long story bro

2/7/2010 9:46:19 AM

appamali and ElixiR lose.

2/7/2010 9:47:43 AM

^^^

If your moms wants to get away from ethnic diversity, may I suggest Wyoming or Maine?

2/7/2010 10:25:14 AM

or Montana...or take your ass to Alaska and do us all a favor

2/7/2010 10:26:52 AM

butthurt Indians, ITT

2/7/2010 10:56:23 AM

maybe they were mexicans

indians and mexicans generally look the same

2/7/2010 11:15:17 AM

wait, what?

[Edited on February 7, 2010 at 11:20 AM. Reason : unless you mean feathers and not dots, in which case I'll give you that. ]

2/7/2010 11:19:54 AM

if I had anyone do that to me where I was in earshot and I was sure it was in reference to me, I would make a scene about it...



if someone tries to get uppity when some "racist" white person "oppresses" them, I sure as hell am going to call them out for being ignorant and racist themselves- I did this at the gym when I worked there... someone tried to get in without a membership with their friend and I wouldn't let them go- they tried to say it was because they were black and tried to make a scene out of it- I made an even bigger scene telling them that their ignorant ass needs to stop expecting hand outs and that if they thought I was going to bend over because they had the nerve to pull out the race card that they were dead wrong and that they are making themselves look stupid, not me or the gym (I had no problem doing this where I worked because I really could have cared less about that job- it was just something to fill my time and get a little extra cash)

2/7/2010 11:32:15 AM

its a joke doofus

2/7/2010 11:34:07 AM

words

[Edited on February 7, 2010 at 11:45 AM. Reason : .]

2/7/2010 11:44:37 AM

Quote :

"I can't describe what she looks to all of you so that you can publicly chastise her because she was wearing one of this Hindu outfits that covers everything but the eyes. I guess if you see a woman like that at Cary Towne Center then it could be her."

That is NOT a Hindu outfit!

A burqa (Arabic pronunciation: ['b?rqa]; also transliterated burkha, burka or burqua from Arabic: ????? burqu‘ ) is an enveloping outer garment worn by women in some Islamic traditions for the purpose of cloaking the entire body. It is worn over the usual daily clothing (often a long dress or a shalwar kameez) and removed when the woman returns to the sanctuary of the household (see purdah).

The burqa is usually understood to be the woman's loose body-covering (Arabic: jilbab), plus the head-covering (Arabic: ?ijab, taking the most usual meaning), plus the face-veil (Arabic: niqab). The word comes from the Arabic root /r/+/q/+/?/ which means "to patch up" or "to sew up".[1] The face-veil portion is usually a rectangular piece of semi-transparent cloth whose top side is sewn to corresponding portion of the head-scarf, so that the veil hangs down loose from the scarf, and it can be turned up if the woman wishes to reveal her face (otherwise the whole face would be covered). In other cases, the niqab part can be a side-attached cloth which covers the face below the eyes' region.

The face-veil portion is also called purdah ([p?rd?a?]), a Persian word meaning "curtain".

2/7/2010 1:28:11 PM

^its a joke doofus

2/7/2010 1:31:34 PM

(/)_-)

2/7/2010 1:37:05 PM

super cool story bro

i laughed so hard at this story

2/7/2010 7:14:07 PM

Quote :

" GIANT WALL OF TEXT "

2/7/2010 7:15:59 PM

why is my name on this gay shit

2/7/2010 7:16:51 PM

more like

Quote :

"GIANT WALL'O SHIT"

2/7/2010 7:16:59 PM

I'm not State Oz if that's what you mean

2/7/2010 7:17:20 PM

they think you are the great satan

2/7/2010 7:17:51 PM

Quote :

"On November 15, 2004, a report on CNN.com briefly described a clash in the Iraqi city of Baquba, including an insurgent attack with rocket-propelled grenades on members of the First Infantry Division, in which four American soldiers were wounded. CNN did not post any images of the battle, and the incident wasn't given much attention in other media. But visitors to the amateur porn website nowthatsfuckedup.com were given a much closer view of the action: "today in baquba we got into the shit again and got some of it on vid.....this is me and my wingman fuckin some shit up when these fucks shot 3 rpg's at us so we took down the whole spot.....look for yourself...the fight lasted like 85 mins total and they are still counting up the bodies." The poster, an anonymous soldier identified only as "Stress_Relief," uploaded two videos of the clash onto the website, drawing enthusiastic responses from patrons: "nice work, guys. Keep blasting those mujadeen [sic] bastards." Originally created as a site for men to share images of their sexual partners, this site has taken the concept of user-created content to a grim new low: US troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan are invited to display graphic battlefield photos apparently taken with their personal digital cameras. And thousands of people are logging on to take a look. The website has become a stomach-churning showcase for the pornography of war--close-up shots of Iraqi insurgents and civilians with heads blown off, or with intestines spilling from open wounds. Sometimes photographs of mangled body parts are displayed: Part of the game is for users to guess what appendage or organ is on display. One soldier who goes by the alias "shottyintheboddy" said in an e-mail exchange with The Nation that he posts combat images on the site because it gives civilians a more accurate view of his life in Iraq. "I mostly take interest in the response of civis back home. Most know what CNN tells them and couldn't hack it here," the soldier wrote. He added that he recommended the site to his fellow soldiers, and knows others who post. Chris Wilson of Lakeland, Florida, said in an interview that he created the site in 2004 as a simple Internet pornography venture: Users post amateur pictures--supposedly of their wives or girlfriends--and for a $10 registration fee, others can take a look. He claims there are about 150,000 registered users on the site, 45,000 of whom are military personnel. Of the 130,000 unique visitors who come to the site daily, Wilson estimates that 30 percent of the traffic, or 39,000 unique users, are US military personnel. Early on in his Internet venture, Wilson said, he encountered a problem--potential military customers in Iraq and Afghanistan couldn't pay for membership, because credit card companies were blocking charges from "high-risk" countries like Iraq and Afghanistan. Not wanting to shortchange US troops, Wilson established a rule that if users posted an authentic picture proving they were stationed overseas, they would be granted unlimited access to the site's pornography. The posting began, sometimes of benign images of troops leaning against their tanks, but graphic combat images also began to appear. As of September 20, there were 244 graphic battlefield images and videos available to members. Why would a site devoted to sex also reduce the horrors of combat to a spectator sport? According to one expert, this confluence of pornography and violent combat images may have roots in the way the human brain processes high-arousal information. "For some people, any arousal--it doesn't matter if it is a negative image or a pornographic image--if it takes away the boring humdrum of everyday existence, it's all the better," says David Zald, a Vanderbilt University psychologist who studies how the brain processes emotional stimuli. Some of the images on nowthatsfuckup.com appear to be of Iraqi insurgents--one soldier posted eight graphic photos of a person he claimed was a suicide bomber who accidentally detonated before he got close to US troops. "Wow. Nice set of pics. Amazing how the face just wrapped off," is the response from another user. Other images appear to be of Iraqi civilians. A series of photos showing two men slumped over in a pickup truck, with nothing visible above their shoulders except a red mass of brain matter and bone, is described as "an Iraqi driver and passenger that tried to run a checkpoint during the first part of OIF." The post goes on to say that "the bad thing about shooting them is that we have to clean it up." Another post, labeled "dead shopkeeper in Iraq," does not explain how the subject of the photo ended up with a large bullet hole in his back but offers the quip "I guess he had some unsatisfied customers." Officials at the Defense Department and at US Central Command in Tampa Bay, Florida, shied away from any direct comments about military personnel posting combat images on Wilson's porn site, claiming a firewall blocks viewing of such material from their office computers. But Centcom spokesman Matt McLaughlin said that, in general, "Centcom recognizes DoD regulations and the Geneva Convention prohibit photographing detainees or mutilating and/or degrading dead bodies." He added, "Centcom has no specific policy on taking pictures of the deceased as long as those pictures do not violate the aforementioned prohibitions." The fact that US military officials refuse to denounce combat photos posted on a porn site is troubling, since the very act of posting pictures of dead civilians for entertainment value is degrading. In addition, one photograph of detainees sitting on the back of a flatbed truck with burlap sacks on their heads does appear to break even the narrow rules on photographing detainees set forth by the Defense Department. Christopher Conway, a Defense Department spokesman, noted that Internet technology has been beneficial for combat troops; according to Conway, troops link up via the Internet to share information about "lessons learned" on the battlefield. "They're very adept at using technology," Conway said. But he acknowledged that "technology is a double-edged sword." As the Internet has given bloggers powerful tools of communication outside the realm of the mainstream media, it has also given soldiers the ability to relay their experiences in ways Americans will never get from traditional news sources. But the posts on http://www.nowthatsfuckedup.com are not meant to subvert the sanitized mainstream media with the goal of waking the general public up to the horrors of war. Rather, all of the posters--and many of the site's patrons--appear to regard the combat photos with sadistic glee, and pathological wisecracks follow almost every post. If there is any redeeming value to such a clearinghouse for images of destruction and death, it would rest in the site's ability to offer an unflinching look at the obscenity of war--and war's impact on the psyches of the soldiers called to fight it.""

2/7/2010 8:38:59 PM

Do you guys think something like this could happen at Crabtree Valley Mall? What about Mission Valley Shopping Center?

2/8/2010 1:52:30 AM