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Tell me he didn’t just say that!

I went to the mall today to pick up a new phone and a headset for work (I got a new job doing market research, yay!) and decided to take the bus because it was hot out to walk. It worked out pretty well, got to the bus stop just as the bus pulled up for both the trip there and back so there wasn’t any waiting.

On the way back there was only 3 passengers: Myself, and two elderly women. So we’re going around the route and a colored woman in her late 20s-early 30s gets on. Well I grew up in ‘Lily white Rothesay’ so my exposure is pretty limited to anybody but white. However, I try my damnedest not to think anything racist and surely never say it. But there are those times when the thoughts cross my mind. Back to the story, she gets on and is fumbling for some change and the bus driver starts going. After about a minute the woman says to the bus driver “I can’t seem to find my change, can you let this one slide”. Now in my head I think “Figures a black person with no change. Oh shit, have to stop thinking that I’m such an asshole”. No sooner had I thought that the bus driver replies to her “No,” and he hits the breaks “and we don’t accept food stamps either now get off my bus nigger.”

All I could think was “Holy shit, he didn’t just say that!” I looked to the elderly women to make sure I didn’t just think he said that and it was apparent that it was actually said. One of the women’s eyes were almost popping out of her head with her jaw on the floor and the other was already standing ready to beat the living hell out of the bus driver. The colored woman got off the bus in the middle of the intersection without saying anything and the elderly women and myself followed, leaving the bus completely empty. We walked over to the corner and called the transit company about the bus driver and they said he would be dealt with.

I still can’t believe he fucking said that, what a piece of shit.