Racist customer or just personal preference?

"EL_ULY" (uly) 02/22/2016 at 18:16 • Filed to: aston martin, bad customers

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So this guy called in looking for some parts for his 11' DBS. He needed some floor mats and a left headlight assembly.......oh, and he wanted to make sure the person attending him when he comes in to make the order is white.

I don’t have an accent and many do confuse me for a “white dude”, but I am Mexican. The customer said, “make sure when I come into your store to place the order that you or whoever helps me is white. I don’t want to deal with or buy anything with anyone who isn’t a white and American”. I honestly thought it was a prank. I just said, “sure” and he hung up. After further research, the techs confirmed that on test drives with this guy, he makes conversation just blasting away about black people this, Mexicans that, blah blah about all these Muslims and all that stuff.

Dude WTF?

But you know what, I ain’t even mad. He has the right to feel and hate whatever he wants :] For this guy though, I dedicate this song for you

dat guitarron solo at 2:36

CB > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 18:22

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Do you have any white non-Americans working at the shop? Get them to help him and see what happens. Will he get mad if a Canadian helps him?

TheHondaBro > CB 02/22/2016 at 18:27

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Who the fuck hates Canadians?

CB > TheHondaBro 02/22/2016 at 18:28

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We’ll find out!

DrJohannVegas > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 18:28

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He’s a racist, and has a right to be so, just as you have the right to troll his old racist ass for it.

(Since racism is about prejudice, and prejudice is about preference...)

Edit: Thanks to EL_ULY, I also had a fun “TIL” moment. Didn’t know until now that a version of “El Cascabel” was on the Voyager Record. Very cool.

My bird IS the word > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 18:29

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I will just leave you with this

Because if I sit here and think about how horrible that guy is, I will get depressed.

TheHondaBro > CB 02/22/2016 at 18:29

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Who’d you piss off this time, Ceeb?

Berang > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 18:31

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You should have asked if Irish or Polish was close enough.

EL_ULY > My bird IS the word 02/22/2016 at 18:31

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lol!!!!!!!!!!

Rico > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 18:31

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Lmao first thing you do is make sure the person coming to help him is not in fact White just to see him get super tight.

When he leaves hand him this

I wonder If by sending him a non-White person to assist him if he’ll actually get mad enough to request a white person or file a complaint.

Or even better find a White guy and have him do a Spanish accent while he talks hah that would be too perfect.

CB > TheHondaBro 02/22/2016 at 18:34

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Who haven’t I pissed off?

EL_ULY > Berang 02/22/2016 at 18:35

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lolz!!!!!!!

Xyl0c41n3 > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 18:37

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Lol. Because us brown folk clearly can’t be legal, amirite?

I get that kind of shit all the time, too, because I don’t have an accent and I can be pretty güera when I don’t get outside enough.

Last year, I was waiting to board a boat for a story I was writing. A tourist nearby, seeing me with all my camera gear and shit, asked if I would take a photo of her and her kids with her smartphone. I said, sure, no problem.

We started making small talk and she asked me where I worked, so I said, “I work at (company).” She said, “What?” I said, “(Company’s complete, full, proper name); I’m a journalist.”

She let out this huge, relieved sigh and said, “Oh my God! I didn’t understand you before because I didn’t realize you were speaking correctly! I’ve been having trouble understanding people all day because everybody around here speaks Mexican! I mean, you know what I mean. It’s hard to understand what they’re saying!”

I looked at her, smiled, and quickly excused myself because fuck that shit. Fuck the “Oh, but you’re one of the good ones” mentality that underlies so much modern racism.

Did I mention that, though this area is predominantly Latino (tu ya sabes), the city I was in at the time is one of the few in the entire region that actually has a white majority, so the number of people she would have heard “speaking Mexican” would have been vanishingly small?

But, whatever.

Wacko > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 18:37

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Fuck that guy,

Please tell me you have female coworkers that are not white, make her serve him, cause odds are if he’s a racist, he’s most likely also sexist.

That might make him look for a new dealer

TheHondaBro > CB 02/22/2016 at 18:37

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True. I fucking hate your guts.

<3

Xyl0c41n3 > TheHondaBro 02/22/2016 at 18:38

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I do! Especially that CB dude. There’s something shifty about that dude... always so polite and shit. Fuck that!

:P

CB > TheHondaBro 02/22/2016 at 18:38

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You and me both, bud.

Berang > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 18:38

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“how picky are you about white people? - uh huh - well we do have a white anglo saxon, but they’re jewish. Is that ok, or do you insist on a protestant?”

Xyl0c41n3 > Rico 02/22/2016 at 18:39

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BUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I gotta steal that photo.

And naw, man... the trick is to get some Mexicano del interior to help him. Someone who’s blonde haired and blue eyed, but doesn’t speak a lick of English. Hehehe.

DrJohannVegas > Berang 02/22/2016 at 18:39

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EL_ULY > Rico 02/22/2016 at 18:42

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omg lol that would trip the guy out for sure lol!!!!! I mean, I can pull it off pretty good. I’ll make sure once I take his money to ask someone to come into the department and start talking to me in Spanish and we’ll start a conversation as loud and obnoxious possible.

“horale gueeey, que hongo carnal”

“nariz guey aqui nomas en el changarro”

“Ok sir, here is your invoice. I’ll make sure to call you as soon as your parts arrive. Have a nice day”

“No manches gueeey ya comprate unos zapatos nuevos guey. Ya estan tan pinches apestosos esas mamadas!”

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 18:44

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He may have the freedom to be a bigoted racist fuck, but you also have the freedom to deny him service.

Also what everyone else said, have a POC female serve him and make sure he knows he’s on video. Cuz that way you have legal cover to post his reaction on the internet.

Nibby > TheHondaBro 02/22/2016 at 18:45

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DoYouEvenShift > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 18:45

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What if you tell him youre half white?

ttyymmnn > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 18:45

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I used to work at the Kinko’s in the Rice Village, and we had a bigoted asshole customer who used to come in and we finally banned him after he repeatedly verbally abused the employees. Is his business worth it?

RallyWrench > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 18:45

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Whatever color his DBS is, tell him you don’t supply parts for cars of that color.

Nibby > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 18:45

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People like that are disgusting.

For Sweden > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 18:47

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2011 DBS...or Doug DeMuro and his Vantage?

You don’t have to cover for him.

EL_ULY > Xyl0c41n3 02/22/2016 at 18:49

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Lol I would of just laughed and told her, “I can speak “wrong” English if you need me to”

It’s kind of the same way with chicanos and Mexicans. Heck, even Mexicans from el Norte and from big cities (D.F. Guadalaja, Pueba) They don’t get along at all either. Nobody does lol.

White people against Mexicans, Chicanos against Mexicans, Mexicans (rural) vs. Mexicans (city). No manchen, there is no love :’(

I don’t let it get to me and ease the tension off as much as I can. No time to bicker.

unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 18:49

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I guarantee he’s Hitler’s number one fan.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Berang 02/22/2016 at 18:50

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Or Jewish...?

EL_ULY > unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) 02/22/2016 at 18:50

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lol who knows. Probably not since Hitler is a foreigner

EL_ULY > For Sweden 02/22/2016 at 18:51

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lol ok, you figured it out :]

ranwhenparked > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 18:52

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Since he specified white AND American, it’s too bade you couldn’t find a Canadian or Briton or Australian or something to help him. Let him decide what he hates more - foreigners or Americans of a different skin color than himself.

No Prius Needed > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 18:52

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Break the right headlight assembly.

EL_ULY > Nibby 02/22/2016 at 18:52

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only A LOT!

EL_ULY > DoYouEvenShift 02/22/2016 at 18:53

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I’ll convince him i’m “pure” and all of a sudden after I take his money get straight up Spanish lolz!

EL_ULY > RallyWrench 02/22/2016 at 18:54

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I looked it up with the VIN right now, it’s a white DBS!!!!

EL_ULY > ttyymmnn 02/22/2016 at 18:55

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Oh dang really? I don’t think i’ve ever refused service to a customer

yitznewton > Berang 02/22/2016 at 18:56

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This is sounding very Monty Python...

“Sorry sir we’re right out of Presbyterians, but there’s a lovely Catholic-and-Jewish pair right over here. White as a daisy!"

Rico > Xyl0c41n3 02/22/2016 at 18:56

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Steal away lol I think it’s hilarious! That would make him bug out for sure, he’ll think he’s in some opposite universe.

EL_ULY > ranwhenparked 02/22/2016 at 18:56

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lol smoke would come out of his ears if I were to ask him lolz!

EL_ULY > No Prius Needed 02/22/2016 at 18:57

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lol whooops, I guess you need this side too ma’fucka!!!

Brian, The Life of > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 18:57

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Uly you’re, like, THE most unflappable dude on the entire Internet.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 18:58

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As a middle aged white guy this really offends me. I’d tell him that his car was assembled by muslims in England.

EL_ULY > TheHondaBro 02/22/2016 at 18:58

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this dude probably lols

RallyWrench > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 18:59

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HAHAHA that’s too perfect. Too bad you only sell parts for black and brown ones!

EL_ULY > Berang 02/22/2016 at 18:59

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LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!

Berang > yitznewton 02/22/2016 at 18:59

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I was thinking more of Bob Newhart on a phone - but python would work too.

EL_ULY > Xyl0c41n3 02/22/2016 at 18:59

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that would trip him out lol!

EL_ULY > DrJohannVegas 02/22/2016 at 19:01

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lol well yeah true true :] I don’t want to sink to his level :]

EL_ULY > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 02/22/2016 at 19:01

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lol oh man that would go viral big time

EL_ULY > Wacko 02/22/2016 at 19:02

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We have every kind of rad awesome people here :]

ranwhenparked > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 19:02

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That can be fun sometimes. I had an elderly volunteer at work tell one of our secretaries that we should’t rent a building to a black family for their family reunion, because “those people” are “too violent”; she locked eyes with him and asked him to clarify which people he meant, and he got all flustered and broke off the conversation.

EL_ULY > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 02/22/2016 at 19:02

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LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh man he’d flip!

EL_ULY > Brian, The Life of 02/22/2016 at 19:02

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ah wiwi!

DrJohannVegas > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 02/22/2016 at 19:02

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I thought you couldn’t post “React” videos anymore on the internet.

/s

EL_ULY > RallyWrench 02/22/2016 at 19:03

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LOL!!!

EL_ULY > ranwhenparked 02/22/2016 at 19:03

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oh damn. Called him out on it and everything

El Rivinado > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 19:06

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Eh, bigots will be bigots, just let it bounce off and go about your day.

What surprises me is how many people think Mexican or Hispanic people are very obvious in appearance. One of my best friends in the world is Mexican, and her skin is as white as mine is. I tell you what, if some people realized how many "white people" were actually of Hispanic descent, it would blow their minds.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > TheHondaBro 02/22/2016 at 19:08

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If anyone does hate us... sorry. :P

EL_ULY > El Rivinado 02/22/2016 at 19:09

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i fit that descriptions and i get hell from both sides. Unintended covert ops is the worst. I’ll be hanging out with new people and someone just starts blasting about Mexicans and all I could do is just absorb the awkward moment

deprecated account > TheHondaBro 02/22/2016 at 19:09

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*slowly raises hand*

just kidding. I just wouldn’t want to live in Canada.

blacktruck18 > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 19:10

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Fuck that guy, would the owner/manager of your dealship care or aware of the situation? Could you get permission to tell him to take his business and shitty self else where?

I also like your comment about acting white than speaking Spanish to someone else, that would be pretty funny. Try to do it in between him giving you money and having the parts in his hands. It would be pretty funny if he got so pissed he left without the stuff he paid for.

Or, if he isn’t Native American kick him out of the dealership for being an immigrant. That would probably fuck with his head pretty good.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 19:11

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!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

If that isn’t racist I dunno what is. Fuck him.

TheHondaBro > BaconSandwich is tasty. 02/22/2016 at 19:14

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That’s the most Canadian response ever.

CounterTorqueSteer > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 19:18

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If I had to choose one Oppo to hang with, it would be you. You da man.

Manny05x > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 19:27

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The racism is alive and kicking in this country.

NotUnlessRoundIsFunny > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 19:30

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Didn't know the Duck Dynasty guy drove an Aston!

MLGCarGuy > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 19:34

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Wonder what color his wheels and interior are...

ttyymmnn > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 19:37

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I think you would be within four rights to do so.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 19:41

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I think your employer sucks for taking his business.

Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast. > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 19:49

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White guy here..... A lot of older white guys are racists, and my experience is that if they are rich it seems even more true. A lot aren’t though. That guy is an asshole. It’s not my call but if it were my business, I’d just as soon have him find another dealership to deal with.

Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast. > El Rivinado 02/22/2016 at 19:49

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Going to mexico City would blow their minds. Lots of “White Mexicans” down there.

Tom McParland > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 19:55

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Ugh...money doesn’t mean class, that’s for sure. You should be like, “Bro, we are never going to pay for your wall with that kind of attitude."

Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 19:56

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Brazilian here. lots of people are surprised I even speak Portuguese. Im white compared to my family back home.

Its weird that mexicans (typically) get all the hate, while past the equator, they idolize us.

PatBateman > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 20:07

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If he only wants to deal with gringos de Estados Unidos, he must have a hard life here in Houston.

You’re a kind man, Uly, but allow me, as un gringo, to say: fuck that guy.

XJDano > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 20:25

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Good KINJA right here.

I listened to your guest appearance pod cast yesterday & today & I was expecting a couple essays and references to Holmes & homies, and wife beaters under flannels with just the top button buttoned. I didn’t get any of that.

As for English as a second language you speak it pretty good. I can see how the guy couldn’t tell.

I have worked with some Mexacans that speak broken English because it is not thier language and even the Peruvians that I work with aren’t much better, even though the guy has been here 15+ years.

I can not speak hardly any Spanish or understand it either. So I have much respect for folks that can speak more than one language.

Comos das, cer vesa, is all I know, and the first one is likely wrong.

Haha.

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 20:30

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Please tell me said douche-schooner has TRUMP! sticker on their Aston so other motorists can readily identify this racist asshole. Fuck that guy.

Tapas > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 20:42

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Make sure you tend to him.

When he calls you out to being of Mexican heritage, tell him off for being a racist cunt? I didn’t know you could legally do that.

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 20:44

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Does SOUTH American count? Straight out of Sao Paulo but white as a ginger from the north pole?

Edit, I mean no offense to any redheads :)

Santiago of Escuderia Boricua > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 21:02

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Ask about percentages... Like “well, we have someone who’s 62% white... is that enough?”

Santiago of Escuderia Boricua > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 21:04

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Fuck that guy. I’m the white-passingest of white passing hispanics, for sure, but it still pisses me off to hear this stuff. Like every week I have my coworkers bitching about our manufacturing in Mexico and how they wish they could understand them better. I jokingly said that since they learned some English, we should all learn some Spanish. That was not well received.

Nauraushaun > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 21:20

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Your hands are so tied here! Do you give him bad service, possibly giving your company a bad name? Or do you bend to his bigoted, racist demands? Or deny him service and just lose the business altogether? Neither sounds appealing.

coqui70 > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 22:46

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There’s always one douchebag. He’s the one whose steering wheel you polish with shit right before you handover the keys.

EL_ULY > Nauraushaun 02/22/2016 at 22:49

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i.m going to treat him the same way i do any customer. If he has a problem, he can speak with my boss

EL_ULY > Santiago of Escuderia Boricua 02/22/2016 at 22:51

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you can.t blame them for not wanting to change. Being all pissy and little remarks are not kind or productive to a business. They can adapt or leave

EL_ULY > Santiago of Escuderia Boricua 02/22/2016 at 22:52

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lol!

EL_ULY > AMGtech - now with more recalls! 02/22/2016 at 22:53

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lols there are all sorts of people from everywhere. This old man is just too ultra ignorant

EL_ULY > Tapas 02/22/2016 at 22:54

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lol, i’ll keep cool and if he has beef, he can speak to my boss. It’s the only thing i can do

EL_ULY > ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) 02/22/2016 at 22:55

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lol idk if he does or who he is voting for

PS9 > EL_ULY 02/22/2016 at 22:55

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Wife cheated on him with a half black half mexican muslim dude, and he never got over it.

EL_ULY > XJDano 02/22/2016 at 22:59

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it’s all good dude lol. I am teaching my wife at the moment and it is turning out to be very dificulf for her. She not going to give up because it’s a must to know English. This cock breath would be the first to clown on her for trying or not speaking it perfect

EL_ULY > PatBateman 02/22/2016 at 23:00

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i can only treat him like any other dude. If there is any beef, he can see my boss.

EL_ULY > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy 02/22/2016 at 23:01

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lol to them, if you speak spanish, you are from Mexico

EL_ULY > Tom McParland 02/22/2016 at 23:02

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lol oh buuuurn !

EL_ULY > Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast. 02/22/2016 at 23:05

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all i can do is treat him the same way as every customer and if there is any issue, he can speak to my boss. No bias or egging the guy on

EL_ULY > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/22/2016 at 23:06

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he has made a lot of business with us. I will not treat him any different than any customer

EL_ULY > ttyymmnn 02/22/2016 at 23:07

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i can only treat him the same way as any other customer. if there is any beef, he can see my boss

EL_ULY > MLGCarGuy 02/22/2016 at 23:08

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Mexican!!!! lol

EL_ULY > NotUnlessRoundIsFunny 02/22/2016 at 23:08

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lol oh buuurn!