{"id":66,"date":"2005-11-15T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-15T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/11\/15\/please-take-the-sign-off-my-back\/"},"modified":"2009-01-05T11:21:45","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T10:21:45","slug":"please-take-the-sign-off-my-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/11\/15\/please-take-the-sign-off-my-back\/","title":{"rendered":"PLEASE take the sign off my back…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…that’s says “If your a nutter,Harass ME!!!”<\/p>\n

Standing outside the fire escape at work today having a crafty cigarette, when approached by a bloke…(bare in mind my back is against the door and its in a three foot square alcove and I really have nowhere to go)….<\/p>\n

Man: (shakes my hand) Oh you have a nice firm grip there?
Me: Thank you, How may I help you? (I’m standing outside work so presume its a customer)
Man: Well, are you married??
Me: No.
Man: In that case, Can I have your number?
Me: Sorry, I have a boyfriend. (Blatent lie but obviously he doesn’t know that)
Man: Well do you want my number.
Me: Why? I dont even know you??
Man Well why, because your gorgeous and because its really hard for a black man to make friends with white females. you want to be my friend dont you??
Me: Oh erm..like I said I dont even know you..
Man: Well I’m Keith, (grabs me in a bear hug and rubs his crouch against me) So you going to be my friend?
Me: (looking for anyone to come to my rescue) erm…erm… I dont think my boyfriend would appriciate me taking strangers phone numbers!!
Keith: Well (looks at my name badge) STEPH!!, You go running back to your WHITE boyfriend I’m sure he has more to offer than a black man, I bet he has a good job, I bet he has a nice car. I’m sure he’s better than any black man would be, Go on then you obviously don’t need any more friends, i bet you haven’t even got ONE black friend!!
Me: (Thinking oh my god get me out off here) I’m needed back inside, excuse me..
Keith: You just dont wantto be seen talking to a black man do you??
Me: No, really I have to get back inside…
Keith: (Grabs me in ANOTHER bear hug) So were friends then, cool I’ll call in the shop and see you some time…
Me: Can you let me go now??
Keith: Erm yeah ok, Your too good for your white boyfriend<\/p>\n

…and then as he disappears into the crowd on Dudley Street I virtually RUN back into the shop!!!<\/p>\n

I learnt an important lesson today…..<\/p>\n

…Always stand where someone can see you to have a cigarette… But saying that the people I work with would have only stood and watched, laughed at me and then used it as ammunition to take the mickey out of me all day!!<\/p>\n

I attract all the NUTTERS!!<\/p>\n

Also we had the auditors in the store today,After spending most the morning staring at one of then I suddenly realised where I’d seen him before, it was Craig, a friend(?)\/co-worker who I hadn’t seen in seven years and was about to move into a house share with when he disappeared off the face of the planet! We both kind of realised who the other one was at the same time, it was like OH MY GOD ITS YOU!!!<\/p>\n

We got talking and I thought I better broach the subject of what happened for him to disappear the way he did, It turns out he didn’t disappear..My shit head ex who was also going to share with us, screwed him out of his deposit money. I spent the rest of the day not knowing whether to apologise, Offer to repay him, or what, feeling very akward and very resposible for something I didn’t even know about!! I kinda avoided talking to him for a while, which is the wimps way out I know but what would YOU do??<\/p>\n

Anyway I dont think he holds it against me as I think he could tell by my reaction I knew nothing about it, that and when me and my boss were joking about hating men he did pipe up and say “Well it sounds like Steph has good reason too”. <\/p>\n

At least I hope he doesn’t hold it against me as I’m working with him ALL day tomorrow!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…that’s says “If your a nutter,Harass ME!!!” Standing outside the fire escape at work today having a crafty cigarette, when approached by a bloke…(bare in mind my back is against the door and its in a three foot square alcove and I really have nowhere to go)…. Man: (shakes my hand) Oh you have a … Continue reading PLEASE take the sign off my back…<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wbiagw"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6WGy-14","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/10\/29\/handstands-in-the-morning\/","url_meta":{"origin":66,"position":0},"title":"Handstands in the morning….","date":"October 29, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Oh ouch, What happened last night? 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