Sometimes you can’t help but overhear a conversation between people in the supermarket . Two sixty something couples, one man proudly saying that they had just been to a charity fundraiser for the local lifeboat. As I passed the other woman, who was facing him said something I didn’t catch then loudly added, “well I wouldn’t support them as all they seem to do is to save illegal immigrants.”
I stopped my trolley as the original guy said something else and I caught something like “well you can’t let anyone drown” before the racist woman added “ well I would “ then added “ perhaps I’d save the children”
I saw red
It wasn’t my conversation
It wasn’t my business.
But I butted in anyway and hissed at the woman “ shame, shame on you!”
All four looked shocked but I carried on,
The floodgates opening
“ Racist Scum” I called her
Cheap Shoes was all too gentle
Good for you! We all should do the same.
ReplyDeleteWell done! We need more people to speak up like that. Thankyou, from the Netherlands
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you spoke up and I hope I would have as well.
ReplyDeletegood for you xx from julie
ReplyDeleteIf you hadn't spoken up, you would have wished you had! We're all God's children
ReplyDeleteBravo!
ReplyDeleteCodex: Good for you. The problem is that I didn't even hear those types of conversations a few years back. Sometimes. Yes. Hard to listen to.
ReplyDeleteGood for you! The speaker is probably beyond hope but onlookers and the other couple might be given cause to re-evaluate a bit!
ReplyDeleteCeci
Good for you! I would have been too shocked to speak.
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