Yes, I’m Pasty White
We went tubing with some friends on a nearby river yesterday. It was the lazy river kind of tubing. You each get a tube and you sit in it and float down the river. It was a hot day so the water was pretty crowded.
So I’m basking shirtless in the sun in all my gleaming pasty white glory. We float by this group of people and one lady looks right at me and kind of starts laughing. Then she yells “Holy cow! I hope you put on some repellent or something! Oh my gosh!” Now I was a bit confused by the word repellent, but then I realized she meant sun screen. I usually have some witty comeback about how white I am but I was kind of in shock that this lady I don’t know was making a scene of my whiteness. So I sheepishly said “yep, I put on sunscreen.”
I think this is the closest I’ve ever come to being a victim of racism. I’m sure people as white as me are a minority group of some sort.
there’s a pekin joke in here somewhere, but i’m going to leave this one alone.
you should’ve included a picture
yes, a picture would have been great! haha. that’s awesome. hahahahaha. hahahahaha.
Ha, I laughed out loud at this.
Pasty is as pasty does. R U the Matt Krick from Mars Hill? I live in Carson City with my family and listen to the MH podcasts all the time. I just finished reading Deep Economy by Bill McKibben and I think you’d enjoy it very much. We’re going green and local. My wife both sells and buys from Vickeryville produce auction in Vickeryville, MI. You can buy locally grown food in bulk at low cost. Lots of stores buy their seasonal produce there.
shalom
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