3 (black) women: 2 bus stories, Tiger Woods.

1) My one (light black-skinned) friend was telling me and another friend when we were driving to the black theater to see "Precious" that she felt really racist the other day, because she was telling a story about how one time she was on this bus in the bad neighborhoods south of campus, and she felt really uncomfortable when she noticed there wasn't any white people on the bus.

"Does that make me racist?", she was like.

2) The other evening I was coming home from downtown on the bus, and there was like 10 Asian undergrads in the back of the bus with shopping bags, and every once in a while the girls would shriek and laugh loudly like they were in middle school, since Asian women do that a lot (I mean, behave a lot younger than they should be).

Anyhow, when it was time to get off the bus, the bus stopped, and when the bus was about to get going after some other people got off, like 3 of the Asians jumped up and went to the door and got off, and just as they got off, 4 other of their friends got up and followed them off, and then just when they were getting off, like the last 3 got up to get off, and the 2 girls of them lingered at the door saying bye to someone they had run into as they held the door open.

I was looking really confused at all of this, and 2 younger (black) women up ahead of me were too, and then the one poked the other and pointed to me and was like, "Look, he sees it too!"

3) After that, I needed a drink, so I got off the bus a couple streets early and went to the black neighborhood bar.

On the way there, there was 2 hulking 30-something (black) guys dressed like thugs, and one met my eyes and was like, "Good evening," to show that they weren't a threat.

Anyhow, when I was there, the bar was pretty full (almost no one at the tables, though), but I pulled up a chair between 2 (black) women. Betty Wright's "Tonight is the Night (Parts 1&2)" was on the jukebox, and they were both talking along with the spoken word parts, and laughing when she asked the audience to think back to the time they lost their virginity, and then when the singing started, they sang along, and also thumped the bar to mimick important percussion bits.


After a bit, one of the women introduced herself to me ("Cecille"), and we started talking, and she brought up Tiger Woods because of his crash.

She didn't know what happened, and was sure the truth would come out about whatever he was doing leaving his house at that time of night - it didn't make any sense to her - and then she was like, "But let me tell you, he is a very smart man. He's only thirty-three, and what's Jack Nicklaus, like 80? Just think, he's already a gazillionaire, and he still has a thirty-year career ahead of him. That's nothing at all like those basketball players, they're out there for 5 years at most."