Never try to embarass a racist; it wastes your time and doesn't annoy the racist Long story short: Customer just came in here ostensibly looking for school uniforms, but making such strange remarks and questions about our company that I decided to stick with her as the rep handled her.→[More:] She began to talk about one of the school's coaches (who is white and married to a black woman) and say that he is pushing students to inter racially date. She made it clear by what she said that she considers this a Bad Thing, and not because of general principles about faculty getting into student's dating lives (which might be a legit concern), but because she doesn't believe people of different races should date.

I really doubt that such a thing is happening (because I think the man is smart enough to stay out of his student's dating practices), and in addition to thinking that she was very strange to be spouting rumors to people she just met who have a contract with the school she's talking about, thought that she was being racist on a non-subtle level that you usually don't see outside of the movies.

I usually don't play head games with customers, but I couldn't resist. "Well, MY wife is black," I interjected (actually, she's white, as am I). I was hoping to see her at least get caught at a loss for words, but other than a clearly half-hearted "well, that's okay for you..." she kept right on her yakkity-smakity. I got called away, rep finished the order, and later told me that the customer asked her "was he kidding?" in a concerned manner. My rep told her I was, and said that if she had been thinking faster she would have left her hanging.

The End.

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