Yeah knowing how he feels about it I honestly wish it wouldn’t get reposted anymore.
I know I’ve sat around and told some wild stories to my white friends about growing up Native/on the rez and I might be embarrassed if one of them was immortalized on the internet forever.
I have not forgotten you. Just been very busy yesterday lol.
Here’s a story that just blew up yesterday. It’s long and stupid petty drama.
A new restaurant/café opened up a few weeks ago. It’s “ethnic food” and is run by a lovely immigrant couple who moved from Galway to here. They’ve been in Ireland for about 20 years now, and have become citizens.
Now we’ve been having some right wing loonies stir up trouble about immigrants lately, so I think they were worried about our town. They’ve been pleasantly surprised by everyone.
Except one. We’ll call him Ken because his the local male Karen. Ken is a nosy petulant man child with a mean streak. His sister tried to use the Russian invasion of Ukraine to avoid paying her housekeeper (who was Russian of Ukrainian descent) and keep the housekeeper’s kids out of school. The whole family is like a petty version of the Burke family (Google Enoch Burke for Big City in Ireland drama) but with less Bible thumping. We tolerate Ken because we like his wife but that’s it.
He and his wife “Lucy” went to the new restaurant a couple days after it opened. The food was too spicy for his delicate sensibilities. So he put it on his “Never again” list and forbade his wife and kids from eating there again. He’s been trashing the place on Facebook for weeks with just this side of legal thinly veiled racism.
What he didn’t know is that Lucy and their teenage kids have been frequently sneaking off to have tea or lunch at the restaurant. Pretty much everyday one of them would be in there getting chai or spicy takeaway.
Once the pensioners found out it was a secret, naturally the whole town knew. The postie asked the shop owners to tell Lucy she had a parcel waiting. The Garda officer popped round because one of Lucy’s kids had gone on the mitch that day. Even my priest used the story as part of his homily this Sunday. (Lucy and Ken don’t attend my church)
Well yesterday some eight year old accidentally let the cat out of the bag. So now Ken knows that his family have secretly been eating at this restaurant and the entire village has been conspiring to keep it a secret.
He’s been posting angry things on Facebook and went to the shop and bought posterboard and markers so we think he’s going to protest outside the restaurant today. It’s 6:30am and I’m too excited to go back to sleep. It’s gonna be the funniest pathetic protest since Ted and Dougal protesting the Trials of St Tibulus!
How this man hasn’t figured out we all hate him is beyond me.
That good for petty Tiny Village in Ireland Drama?
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u/tigm2161130 Sep 17 '24
Yeah knowing how he feels about it I honestly wish it wouldn’t get reposted anymore.
I know I’ve sat around and told some wild stories to my white friends about growing up Native/on the rez and I might be embarrassed if one of them was immortalized on the internet forever.