Overheard in Toronto (Markham, actually)

It is a hot, sunny day. In the back of a TTC bus, three Chinese-Canadian teenage girls are looking at snapshots of themselves on a cameraphone:

First girl - Ohmygod, she is so white.

Second girl -What, you have a problem with white people?

First girl - Not White white, Chinese-people-white. Like, you really need to get a tan.


Thought balloon above my head - Daffy Duck voice: Hmmmm - Homonym Trouble...


I suppose this could count as my belated Blog Against Racism Day entry.



Further overheard conversation dealing with pallor

White guy and Asian woman in a restaurant, discussing their co-workers' dress sense -
WG - Seriously, he is so white, I'm like, "do you have a tunnel that goes from your basement apartment to your basement office?"