Sidewalk Talk; Intro; Yaking; I Have A Listener Line; News From Nephi; Email From Nephi’s Mom; Nephi’s Mom Gives Me Gas; A Bad Experience I Had At 15; Another Bad Experience At 20-Something; I Ramble(Redhead) About Some Unfair Crap; Don’t Go/Weird Mash-up; Outro; Run Time: 39mins
Posted by Tom in Thailand on September 26, 2007 at 2:59 AM
Hey honey
Some how i didn’t get your last show on my itunes, but guess it got lost in cyber space on its way across the sea. Like the show today, and could really relate. My own mother is a very strict bible carrying southern baptist, and she eventually came to terms with having a gay son. She sends me those sort of emails all the time, and if it were anyone else in the world i’d have some words with the sender….but hey, its my Mom, right? She’s ok most of the time, but sometimes her blind acceptance to her beliefs gets under my skin. I can’t imagine not questioning anything. Also, sure did sound like that security guard that gave you a hard time owed you an apology. Big hug to you Mr. Matthew and much love to you from Thailand!
Posted by Nephi on September 29, 2007 at 5:00 AM
I enjoyed this podcast, Matthew. I agree, that is really crappy the way that cashier and those people treated you. When I was a cashier at the good old Exxon gas station I would always take pennies – money is money and it was my job to take it.
Is it just my imagination, or did you change the title of SBA 56 about 4 days after you posted it?
Posted by Kiko on September 30, 2007 at 10:11 AM
Loved the show Mattie!
Good Lurd! Regarding the penny-phobic bitch… I had a similar experience at the Walgreens here in Shi-Taco when I was a kid. However, it ended a little differently…
When I pulled out my bag-o-change, the cashier rolled her eyes and said something stupid like, “we only take rolled coins” or “you need to have those rolled first”. I proceeded to count out my three dollars and some odd cents of pennies out loud whilst she was saying, “are you ‘def, I said we don’t be taking no loose coins like ‘dat!” When I was done, I pushed two foot spread out mass of coins towards her. As they fell off of the counter and onto the floor, I replied, “Are you blind? They’re rolling towards you right now. ” As I was leaving, the other customers in line, mostly older adults, were laughing and clapping and I yelled out something like “Have a nice day !”
Regarding the watch/jewelry issue… Well, yes, you were set up. My friends in retail say they do this all the time. You were probably being watched the whole time you were in the store and at one point they thought you swiped something prior to going to the jewelry counter. Leaving the sensor on the watch was actually genius. It gave them an opportunity to stop you at the exit instead of following you around in the store and approaching you. However, once they determined that they made a mistake, the least they could have done was apologize. A big POO POO on them for that!
Posted by Gary on September 30, 2007 at 5:17 PM
I can relate to your situations. Growing up poor and backward I never received much respect from others. It took a long time to get over that but after growing up, moving to a more urban area and slowly moving up in the world things kind of changed for me. I still have some issues…like I used to get dressed up a bit to go grocery shopping. I once got kicked out of a Marshall Fields store while I was dream shopping because I was an undesirable. That was rather embarrassing. Slowly though things changed and by the time I had lived in the area for a while and met people of influence things really started changing and then when I turned 40 I guess I got a little unconcerned about people and figured if they want to act a negative way toward me then they will get it back in spades. Most of the people in my city know me as I worked for the fire department and held a position in a social fraternity..they know I am gay now as I came out at a rather late age and they dont like it as this is a real conservative republican town but they dont dare say a word to me and they think twice about who they talk to when they talk behind my back. I used to want to pay all these motherfuckers back but I figured the best way to do it was to help others who were less fortunate and help them integrate into our social area. Slowly changing society one person at a time.On the religious note, my family is notoriously old school conservative and most of my family dont want me around anymore but then when I tell them no one has a monopoly on God they tend to shut up. If you havent guessed I am somewhat homomasculine. Thanks for the podcast it made me remember why I do what I do.
Posted by Kalvin on October 4, 2007 at 9:19 AM
Thanks for all the nice words. As for mormons there is a spectrum. The best mormon women are the ones who stay at home. Mormons have always been racist. They don’t really realize it, and would say that they oppose racism, but they are very racist in many of the things they do. Even if the wife needs to go to work to support the family because the man can’t quite do it, she’s still a bit less, as is the single mother or father. It’s all about meeting the perception.