The Hard Core Racist

We all have our prejudices and our stereotypes, but this guy cracked me up this morning. I got here a little late because I overslept...and because I can. Anyway, a very beat up rusted out Suburban was sitting in the parking lot when I got here and he gave me a funny look when I walked in. The guy was very much a blue collar worker. I think he even had on coveralls, and was dirty from head to toe with scars from likely tons of bar fights he'd been in. He had burns on his hands because he was a welder, but some of them were pretty bad. I get the feeling this guy welds with no gloves or helmets. You get the idea. He comes in and asks about these books that we don't have, then he shows me a print out he has from Amazon. I didn't have them, and I couldn't order them for the Amazon price. He asked if I'd just go ahead and order them for him and he'd pay me, so I rang it up on his credit card and ordered his books while he was standing here. He turned to leave and he stopped and came back to the counter. Then he said "I want you to know...and don't take no offense to this ya hear? I've always known about this place, but I ain't never done no business here because I thought it was owned by them ragheads next door." I laughed out loud...I thought that was hilarious. "Uh, I ain't meanin to make you mad by thinkin you's a raghead, and it's fine with me if the ragheads did own this place. I just don't do business with no ragheads cause I ain't never met one that I liked." I wasn't sure what to say, but I assured him that Habib next door did not own any piece of the store, nor did he work here. He said as long as that remained the case he'd do business with me any time he had business that involved books. I told him we welcomed hard core racists so we'd love to have him any time he had a need for books. I wonder if he'd thought for a second what would have happened if I was working for Habib? Somehow I imagine he never took that in to consideration.