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That Honky is Crazy!
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 At work there's a manager who's called, behind her back, Chucky. This is because she has a resemblance to the horror movie icon: red hair going every which way, pale and freckly. Unfortunately I think the resemblance extends beyond the surface, because she seems more than a little batty.
Usually I steer clear of her busybody tendencies, but Friday I couldn't help but stick a prick up my ear when I heard her on the phone with someone saying, "Really? So Don Imus is fired?" Despite my better judgement I sent her a quick e-mail note to say, "I think his punishment is excessive, but that's all I'll say. Back to the calls!"
As I was on a call she came to my cubicle and began mouthing that she really hoped there would be a backlash against political correctness. She repeated this sentiment to me a couple more times, but funnily she kept misspeaking and saying "black-lash."
On my way out she paused to discuss it with me again. I wasn't really up for this because, as I've mentioned before, everyone who works around me is black, and they don't seem to hate me. However I'm sure my view of the Don Imus incident is different than theirs, and I really didn't care to have them overhear our whispered conversation four feet away. But Chucky went on.
"You know I was interviewing this black girl just this week, and I asked her what she thought about this Don Imus thing." WHOA! Wait! Back up! Someone black came in for a job interview, and you asked them what they thought about Don Imus?! There's a lawsuit waiting to happen. And I'm sure the interviewee must have felt real comfortable. Nothing like having job interview jitters, then trying to guess the "correct" answer to the Don Imus question. Holy shit.
Chucky said she thought Imus' firing may have been politically-motivated because he had brought up the conditions at Walter Reed VA hospital, and has also shown up the government in some sort of charity fundraiser he had organized where the government's had fallen flat.
I was curious about her perspective on this, and threw in that Howard Stern had said he thought the FCC heat he had encountered at the end of his FM days was because he had been talking about some points Al Franken raised in his book, and that he had said he thought George Bush, Jr. was incompetent on the air.
"Oh, they've had things going on Howard Stern all the way back to the Clinton administration," Chucky said, "and he could get away with it then because Clinton was a bleeding-heart Liberal! And he sure didn't think he had had sex." I threw my head back in a huge laugh, gathered myself and decided this was a good point to start the weekend. That nappy-haired white ho is crazy!
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Posted by Art | 9:32 PM EST |
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what have you got against 'pale redheads with freckles'? That woman could have been having a bad hair day!
'Chucky' seems kind of harsh. no?
That lady has been having a bad hair day for the whole three years I've been there. I've seen one good hair day in all that time. The Chucky resemblance is furthered by the fact she walks with one her head cocked to one side like a wind-up toy.