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Wednesday, April 25, 2007
I met this ill guy
I met this ill guy at a conference today in Albany. He asked me where I was from so I told him I lived in NYC but was originally from NJ. He told me he was from Syracuse and I asked him if that was far from Albany. He seemed to take offense to the quesiton. He said “You’re from NJ and you don’t know where Syracuse is!?” I was a bit taken aback because he seemed genuinely angry with me so I smiled and apologetically said, “I’ve never been there” to which he exlaimed, “Have you ever been to Africa?” WTF is this fool talking about, I thought. “No” I said, having never been to Africa. He then asked me if I knew where Africa was. I felt as though I had been hit below the belt and was caught a bit off guard so I sheepishly said “Yes” – I did know where Africa was. He then said sarcastically and angrily “Well you know where Africa is but you’ve never been to Africa; it’s the same with Syracuse; it’s just geography.” Whoa son I guess you told me.
What I found offensive was not so much his jeers toward my lack of upstate NY geography expertise but rather that he knew I’d never been to Africa. Why couldn’t I have ever been to Africa? I might have been to Africa; my parents have been to Africa. By just looking at me did he think “Oh THIS sort of girl… she has SO never been to Africa… the Jersey Shore maybe, but never Africa”?
So then he asked me where I was from in NJ and I told him Bayonne and he acted like he knew where that was and again seemed to take offense at my genuine surprise that he knew where Bayonne was (after the conversation ended I thought to myself ‘I bet this guy has never heard of Bayonne in his whole life.’)
He then asked where I went to school. I said “Fordham in NYC” and he abruptly got up and said “Oh. Can’t talk to you.” I said “Ok” because quite frankly I didn’t feel I could talk to him either. He accompanyied his abrupt exit with the alleged factoid that Fordham was his college’s rival school. Manhattan College is rivals with Fordham Univerisity?? I never heard that before though. I think he might have made it up.
Syracuse, lol.
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{JR: Couldn’t have been a Jasper we’re never rude. Any of us. }
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