"I Didn't Know White People Said That!"

A customer came in to pay on his loan; usually he argues with us about how much interest he owes. He pays late and not every month, so that when he does pay he's usually on the brink of losing his loan. Every time he pays it seems to happen, so today I was bracing for more of the same.

Today though he paid his interest, took his receipt and didn't say anything. Then somehow we got on the topic of beastly children. He is an elderly gentleman, and said how kids seemed so much more rude and more likely to misbehave now than when he was a child, and how you used to only notice rude children but now you seem to notice the polite and mannerly ones since they are so rare. He said, "Nowadays all you hear is 'my child needs medication', and that's not they problem!" I laughed and held up my hand and said, "I've got the medication they need right here!" and he laughed. His eyes got big, he walked over to me and put his hand on the counter, leaned in and said in a low voice, "You the first white person I ever hear say that, I thought all white folks put they kids on medication, that's all you ever hear!" We had a good laugh at that.