TheIronSheik
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I kept forgetting to post this story but was out last night with my buddy and we were reminded of it again.
A couple weeks ago, we're at a wedding. It's all my golf buddies and their wives. We all know each other and everyone gets along. It's actually a really cool thing. Anyway, we're standing out before the reception having hors d'oeuvres and just talking. We're all huddled around as a group just cracking each other up with stories. It was a Muslim wedding, so no drinks, which meant you had to be pretty on point with your stories to get a laugh. No cheap drunkard laughs coming your way at this gig.
Well, my one friend and his wife had just gotten back from a trip to Tennessee. She's a huge Elvis fan and had always wanted to go to Graceland. So she's telling us the story about how magical it was and how it brought tears to her eyes. She said they were driving around and they saw a cotton field and she was just amazed at how pretty it looked. Apparently, she had always heard of cotton fields but never imagined how vast they were. Which is weird, because we live in an area of the country where cornfields stretch as far as the eye can see. So I would imagine it's a similar thing? But what do I know. I've never seen a cotton field either, so maybe I'd be blown away too. Doubt it, but who knows.
So she makes her husband stop the car because she wants to get a picture of it. And after taking a couple of snaps, she decides she wants to take a picture of him in the field. So he reluctantly goes out a couple of steps and stands there. But that's not good enough for her. She wants some kind of action picture. So she yells, both at the time and at this point of the story telling, "PICK SOME COTTON! PICK SOME COTTON!!!" Just as our old black waitress walks up to the group. So there's the old back lady and my buddy's wife, who's oblivious to her standing near her, yelling "### ####IT, PICK SOME COTTON!! PICK THE DAMN COTTON!!!"
Her face was so red. Not the black lady's. Her face was still black. But much angrier looking. Ahhh, unintentional racism. Too funny.
Reminded me of that Sarah Silverman sketch where she said she hated knickers with the black lady standing behind her.
A couple weeks ago, we're at a wedding. It's all my golf buddies and their wives. We all know each other and everyone gets along. It's actually a really cool thing. Anyway, we're standing out before the reception having hors d'oeuvres and just talking. We're all huddled around as a group just cracking each other up with stories. It was a Muslim wedding, so no drinks, which meant you had to be pretty on point with your stories to get a laugh. No cheap drunkard laughs coming your way at this gig.
Well, my one friend and his wife had just gotten back from a trip to Tennessee. She's a huge Elvis fan and had always wanted to go to Graceland. So she's telling us the story about how magical it was and how it brought tears to her eyes. She said they were driving around and they saw a cotton field and she was just amazed at how pretty it looked. Apparently, she had always heard of cotton fields but never imagined how vast they were. Which is weird, because we live in an area of the country where cornfields stretch as far as the eye can see. So I would imagine it's a similar thing? But what do I know. I've never seen a cotton field either, so maybe I'd be blown away too. Doubt it, but who knows.
So she makes her husband stop the car because she wants to get a picture of it. And after taking a couple of snaps, she decides she wants to take a picture of him in the field. So he reluctantly goes out a couple of steps and stands there. But that's not good enough for her. She wants some kind of action picture. So she yells, both at the time and at this point of the story telling, "PICK SOME COTTON! PICK SOME COTTON!!!" Just as our old black waitress walks up to the group. So there's the old back lady and my buddy's wife, who's oblivious to her standing near her, yelling "### ####IT, PICK SOME COTTON!! PICK THE DAMN COTTON!!!"
Her face was so red. Not the black lady's. Her face was still black. But much angrier looking. Ahhh, unintentional racism. Too funny.
Reminded me of that Sarah Silverman sketch where she said she hated knickers with the black lady standing behind her.