What I am about to write is very personal and very revealing. By the time I'm done typing this I shall feel as if I've stripped myself of everything and stand before you naked. All over the Internet of course. This is the story of how I, the man's man you know as Jared Laberdesque, was emotionally and verbally violated.
Being the hectic week it had been, my car was low on gas. So I pulled into the nearest gas station and walked inside to pre-pay, because not even Americans trust Americans these days. I was dressed in a black Say Anything shirt (I have to represent), tight (but not too tight) jeans, and a hat. Obviously, my Sunday best.
As I walked in to pay I received a phone call from my lovely girlfriend Kate, I instantly answered it. With one hand tied up in my conversation, I proceeded to pump my gas in that weird one-handed way the people on a cell phone do. Once my gas is finished pumping I place the pump back in it's holder and turn around to screw my cap back on my tank. As I turn around 2 men drive by in a beat up truck and the man in that passenger seat shouts at me, "FAG!".
I was so taken aback by this ludicrous accusation that I couldn't look away. This man and I shared a 5 second long staring contest as he drove by me. He gave me a death gaze that can only be compared to what I imagine the devil's eyes would look like. It was very much like a scene from a movie where two white cops drive by a black man walking along the street and they all share a slow motion stare that last forever, kind of like in Do the Right Thing.
I felt violated by this man, so much so that I wasn't even able to listen to what my girlfriend was saying to me. Me, a fag? Can this be true and if so, why? Why would this man single me out of all the potential faggots at the gas station for his verbal hatred? Could it be because I was the only that was wearing a shirt with sleeves, if at all, and not driving a car the looks like something Bo Duke would drive in a high pursuit chase?
People like this man need to realize that just because a person is not a "red neck" does not make them a "fag". People like me, who are caught in between those two terms are generally called "normal" and we "normal" people have suffered too much prejudice. It's time that America realized that a "normal" person is just like everybody else and does not deserve to be called a "fag". In fact, nobody does.
Being the hectic week it had been, my car was low on gas. So I pulled into the nearest gas station and walked inside to pre-pay, because not even Americans trust Americans these days. I was dressed in a black Say Anything shirt (I have to represent), tight (but not too tight) jeans, and a hat. Obviously, my Sunday best.
As I walked in to pay I received a phone call from my lovely girlfriend Kate, I instantly answered it. With one hand tied up in my conversation, I proceeded to pump my gas in that weird one-handed way the people on a cell phone do. Once my gas is finished pumping I place the pump back in it's holder and turn around to screw my cap back on my tank. As I turn around 2 men drive by in a beat up truck and the man in that passenger seat shouts at me, "FAG!".
I was so taken aback by this ludicrous accusation that I couldn't look away. This man and I shared a 5 second long staring contest as he drove by me. He gave me a death gaze that can only be compared to what I imagine the devil's eyes would look like. It was very much like a scene from a movie where two white cops drive by a black man walking along the street and they all share a slow motion stare that last forever, kind of like in Do the Right Thing.
I felt violated by this man, so much so that I wasn't even able to listen to what my girlfriend was saying to me. Me, a fag? Can this be true and if so, why? Why would this man single me out of all the potential faggots at the gas station for his verbal hatred? Could it be because I was the only that was wearing a shirt with sleeves, if at all, and not driving a car the looks like something Bo Duke would drive in a high pursuit chase?
People like this man need to realize that just because a person is not a "red neck" does not make them a "fag". People like me, who are caught in between those two terms are generally called "normal" and we "normal" people have suffered too much prejudice. It's time that America realized that a "normal" person is just like everybody else and does not deserve to be called a "fag". In fact, nobody does.
3 comments:
I love calling random people fags as I drive by, just be lucky you didn't get an egg to the face. Welcome to America!!!!!!!!!!
it must have been your hair, or the simple fact that your shirt has pink in it.
He did it for the lulz.
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