Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
legally white.....
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Is that like... legally blonde? Here's another way of looking at it. A few years back I was working in Watsonville, about 15 miles south of Santa Cruz and due to crummy bus service, when I got off of work at 10:30pm there were no buses back to town. Seeing that my budget is always ...constrained, I took up temporary residence in a broke down cab-over camper in a one of the other employee's back yard cum junk yard. Carlos was, for want of a better description, Mexican Mafia, nice guy though, and his pit bulls sort of liked me... at least they didn't try to kill me every time I came home, just occasionally. One night I got home and Carlos was already there talking to a long-haired Latino, wearing wraparound shades in the middle of the night on a... I think a Yamaha chopper... Carlos introduces me, to his brother-in-law Phil, and we shake hands. Phil gets one close look at me under the street light and says "Wow Man! Your Caucasian! I busted out laughing I hadn't heard that word "caucasian" used in reference to moi in as long as I could remember. Still laughing, I looked at Phil and coughed out "It's ok man! I'm from Brooklyn! Phil got really somber for a second, smiled and said calmly but with a snap to it: "East side! Your cool." We went in the garage, sat on Carlos's broke down labamba-mobile, some big old rusty 50s vintage Ford that he was going to restore someday, and fired up a fat one. No point to this story, I thought it had one, but it... slipped... my... mind. Leigh
