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I'm coming home today, and I get on a bus downtown heading my way. In Vancouver a large percentage of the population is Asian.
I get on the bus, and besides me and the driver virtually everyone of the 30 or so people on the bus are Asian.
In the first double seat behind the driver, under the little window sticker that says these are priority seats for elderly and handicapped persons there is a little tiny sparrow of a Chinese lady probably about 85 years old or so sitting in the aisle seat with her grocery bags, so I sit down across the aisle from her.
The bus continues on and at the next stop a fat ugly lard assed white woman about 50 or so gets on the bus who looks, with the miserable scowl on her face, for all the world like a female version of Archie Bunker but not anywhere near as good looking.
She waddles over to the little Chinese lady across from me and motions for her to move over. There is silence on the bus. Chinese lady looks at her and turns sideways in the seat to let Archie in to the window seat.
Archie starts shouting "I'm not sitting in there - shove over or move! Move!"
Chinese lady doesn't move, keeps her serenity and composure, and motions for Archie to slide in and sit by the window if she wants to but won't give up her seat to Archie.
Archie scowls more, grumbles some more, looks around for nonexistent support, and finally slides in, jabbing Chinese lady with her elbow on her way through, sits down, scowls some more and into the total silence now with the whole bus eyeing her says out loud "There's a big fuckin' immigration problem in this country!" and glares again at Chinese lady.
So I lean across the aisle and say to Archie loudly enough for the whole bus to hear me:
"I agree! They should have forced IQ tests as a citizenship requirement!"
Archie looks up at me stunned and starts nodding her head. She's finally found some support, she figures.
Archie beams a great big toothy grin at me that fades rapidly and her mouth starts opening and closing with no sound coming out as I look her straight in the in the eye, smile back broadly, and say, loudly enough for the whole bus again....
"Then they could boot all the fat, ugly, racist, brainless assholes right out of the fuckin' country!", as I wink at Chinese Lady.
I can still hear the bus driver laughing his head off.
