Meanwhile, in the "maybe you had to be there" category...
I just ran out for a big slice of Priazzo (with marinara sauce!) at the local pizza joint, and when I came back into the office building, I entered an elevator with a thirty-ish African American lady. The elevator door just stayed open for a few seconds, and a white fellow looked into the elevator and made a beeline for the elevator to our right which was just opening its doors to disgorge a whole bevy of folk. As the doors to our car closed, the lady looked at me quizzically, and I said to her, real low-key, "He probably voted for Romney."
She couldn't stop laughing. I then said, "What an awful thing to say about a complete stranger." And she laughed even harder.
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well done sir, well done!
and more than the joke, the way you made the lady feel better about what could have been a hurtful episode in her day
