Ok here's the story.
I own a video store and I finished my shift at midnight (I started working at 9 am) and my afternoon lunch was kinda far. For 'X' reason I had this craving for a few cheeseburgers and a few McNuggets. 2 minutes from here there's a McD opened late. I close shop and I go there.
Now, obviously there isn't a lot of employees at McD during the night shifts so sometimes they can get their hands full pretty quickly so you have to be pretty patient. The line-up was small so I waited.
In front of me were a pack of scruffy looking dudes dressed as if they had been yanked from the '80s (I'd say 1986). They didn't have mullets but they sure had the attitude.
There was one lonely kid taking the orders in front. He happened to be black. The a******* in front of me were white. So the leader of the pack, some toothless retard with a French (ie from France, not Quebec) started yelling at the kid. "Where's our order?" "come on move faster!" "you people are slow!!!" (no doubt referring to his ethnicity), etc. I was perplexed as to why this fine gentleman was so in a hurry to block his arteries with that delicious crap, but hey. The kid was trying to deal with it, to his credit. But then understandably he lost his cool and told the merry bunch to "f*** o**". They went ballistic on the kid; I was afraid it would even turn violent so my mind switched to 'tactical' (don't laugh- I can mess anyone up with my Kubotan in my pocket... nasty devices) then the kid got wiser and ignored them and said "next customer please". So I stepped forward but the French d*** was still going at it- so I angrily told him "Can I place my f****** order now?" and the d***less b**** and the pack of retards he lead left. And here comes the beauty. As the last retard left he said:
"what did you expect, he's just a n*****".
Real beautiful. And classy too. I wanted to melt right there. I asked the poor clerked if he was 'cool' and if he wanted a few seconds to gather his thoughts. He said "I'm fine. How may I help you?". I placed my order and I told him "a piece of advice: next time don't play their game and just say that if they don't behave you'll call the cops. Usually they'll leave without saying anything."
What really struck me was that the kid had a clean cut and was polite. And hard-working too... I mean come on, flipping burgers at 1 am for 6$/hour. Then you had these unshaved and unwashed bastards who have the gall to threat a kid like crap just because they didn't get their burgers in less than 2 minutes.
Earlier today, I had this long discussion with one of my clients about family and we asked ourselves hypothetical questions like "what if your daughter came home with a girlfriend" sort of thing. And we hit THE classic: what if your daughter brought home a black boyfriend? I said "ah no, no way!!!"... but to be fair to myself I told him: "come to think of it I'd be pissed if ANY man would touch my daughter". But when I sat down to wolf up my cheeseburgers I recalled that earlier conversation and I thought: "you know what, if I had a daughter I'd take that black kid who served me anyday as my son-in-law compared to the average joe"
When I finished my meal, I drew a business card from my wallet, I walked to the counter and I talked to the kid. I told him that's where I work and if he gets in trouble with the manager for rightfully standing up to those guys I'd vouch for him and tell the manager that he kept his cool while they threatened him. He was thankful and smiled at me.
For the record, I had 3 cheeseburgers, 10 McNuggets and a Coke.