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Local youth
Dec. 18th, 2011 09:05 amWalking down the paseo to the store last night, I went through a group of three teenagers. One asked rather directly "do you have a cellphone?"
Not "may I use your cell phone" or anything of the sort. So I just said "no" (which was true, I had left it at home) and kept walking.
After I passed the group, he loudly said "Cracker". Keep in mind everyone involved in this is white.
After I got a little farther away, he rapidly repeated some phrase about a half dozen times increasing the volume each time. Best description I can make for this was that it sounded like an old time way to call pigs in for food.
There was too much of a generation gap for the insult to actually work - after the first exchange of words nothing they said even made sense to me.
Not "may I use your cell phone" or anything of the sort. So I just said "no" (which was true, I had left it at home) and kept walking.
After I passed the group, he loudly said "Cracker". Keep in mind everyone involved in this is white.
After I got a little farther away, he rapidly repeated some phrase about a half dozen times increasing the volume each time. Best description I can make for this was that it sounded like an old time way to call pigs in for food.
There was too much of a generation gap for the insult to actually work - after the first exchange of words nothing they said even made sense to me.
