How To Meet Black People...

I was up late this evening, surprise surprise, watching TV and the usual 9:45-10 commercials started up. You know the one's I'm talking about, they make you believe that you can be a nasty, lazy slob, layin' all up in your bed but somehow, if you call 1-800-single skanks, you'll meet the love of your life, have meaningful conversation, and discover how to initiate world peace, all for only $19.95/min. How sad.

I digress, so I'm watching late night TV and up comes another one of these D-U-M-B commercials, but it's on during the Wendy Williams show, so it has to be geared toward my people, right? Picture it, a young, black woman sits at a table looking a little lonely and the announcer says, "Are you black? Do you want to meet other black people? Black people who want the same things that you do? Well then, you need to log onto our new site, blackpeoplemeetdotcom". Ok, so there are several things that trouble me right off the bat here, but I'm going to stick to the most troubling. Let me start with this first, very perplexing thought that came to me. What would possess you to ask a black person if they would like to meet other black people? Odds are that, if you're black, you've met at least one other black person in your life, even if it's just a cousin or "GranMama". Next, let me say that, prior to showing the viewer the web address, the announcer simply repeats it several times, "Log onto blackpeoplemeetdotcom, black people meet, black people meat..." Disturbing right? What is this commercial really advertising???!!! YUCK!! (said with much disgust.)
Lastly, do the people who started this site really believe that it's that difficult to meet other intelligent, successful, computer-literate black folks, outside of a Tyler Perry movie?!?!? Like, what would you call a successful black person in the zoo (since we are a rare species, right?). I mean, if you looked at the little plaque that describes them in their natural habitat and gives you the phonetic pronunciation of their scientific name, "Origin: African; Region of Migration: Orange County; Diet includes: Anything from Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles (although they won't openly admit to it), however, since gentrification, sushi is preferred". I asked my daughter that question and she said, "Mom, that's so wrong!" HELLO, that's my point. It's no wronger than blackpeoplemeetdotcom or the word wronger.... Right??? Oh well, I guess I'll just go to bed and hope that I can meet some black people tomorrow

(PS my white friends, it's okay to laugh)

That's Just Nasty.....

Some people can be so disgusting sometimes and some people are just disgusting all of the time. I sit in the same general area of this man at work, who will remain nameless , that could literally wake the dead with his sickly, wet, hacking, mucus filled cough. About every 15 minuets or so, he winds up and lets out this horrible vomit inducing sound. Now when I say cough, I should really say snot fest! He sits at his desk, blows his nose and hacks all day, sans hand washing.... Yes, that's right, you read correctly, he doesn't even wash his hands. YUCK! That's not even the worst of it; after all of that nastiness, he has the nerve to go to the community coffee/tea/ water cooler area and get himself a drink.... Why? Why do you have to spread your illness for all of the rest of to partake in?? I did not ask to come to that party, as a matter of fact, I R.S.V.P'd and emphatically declined to attend, thank you very much!

Now what you must take into account is that in our office we deal with clients on the phone a lot. It's somewhat difficult to discuss anything with anyone when you have to explain to them what some have said to me is, "that horrible sound? Is that person going to be okay?" It's a delicate situation to have to deal with because as an employer you can't just tell someone in the immortal words of Mr.Brown to, " Stop bein' Nastyyyyy" but you have to consider the people that have to deal with the guttural disturbances as well as the hacker... There doesn't seem to be a happy medium but you learn to suck it up, pun sooo intended, and do your best to tune out the sound. It's the adult thing, the bigger thing to do, right? Well let me tell you that all of that being big and adult nonsense went out of the window when the hacker decided to start clipping his nails at his desk . WHAT!!! ???

How does one live themselves like that? I mean you're a no hand washing, at your desk nose blowing, community water cooler contaminating ,snotty cough hacking nightmare and now you want to start clipping your nails at your desk for all to hear? UGH!!! Did I forget to mention that this cough has nothing to do with nasty man being sick, it's what he would like to call a "condition", that has been aggravated by the long term relationship that he seems to be having with this cold he has had forever and a day now. What does one do? It's to the point that people are literally sick to their stomach's and one woman even offered the services of her own doctor just in case he didn't have one of his own. So I guess at the end of the day you have to chalk it up to it being none of your business, bring lots of hand sanitizer, sanitizing wipes and think healthy thoughts right?

How would you handle a situation like this one? I would love, love, love the input.