I don’t think I’m racist. I love pointing out a stereotype like a Greek person that has cemented their whole yard or a black American eating fried chicken or a stupid Australian wearing white sunglasses. However I work nights in a bakery. Not baking but selling pies to all the drunken people when the clubs close. It’s basically as glamorous as life can get. Living in Byron bay there are people from all over the world and I get to meet them all at there worst (Drunk and/or high). Generally they will come in and ask me the same question 5 times ask me what hour the bakery is closed, when were the chocolate éclair’s made bla bla bla.
Drunk people tend to go one of two ways. Either incredibly generous offering the people around them whatever they like at the price of a high five and a smile or they can be angry and frugal. They will try most anything to save themselves thirty cents.
This is where you might start thinking I’m a bigot. Most of the people that harass me for discounts and free sauce are English. I’m not sure if it’s because things are so much cheaper in London (that’s in England guys) or because they need to save money for their dental bills and sunscreen.
The worst part is these people will argue with me until the people behind them get upset and they will fold and pay the five dollars twenty with a fifty-dollar note. Obviously you are not that broke if you have a pineapple in your pocket friend. Perhaps that is there last fifty dollars and I do have some sympathy for you but I cant even remember the last time I could afford to walk around with fat stacks like that in my pocket. There is a pep in my step when I have gold coins floating around in my pants.
I wonder if this a common occurrence for the travelling Englishman or if “yall some cheap motherfuckers”
Is this a stereotype? If so how do you get anything done in the U.K. does everybody just stand around telling shopkeepers “That’s a bloody joke mate” imagine the lines to get petrol. What happens in church when the collection gets handed around. I imagine it would be like a Mexican wave of “ya havin a laugh”
There are one more group of people that share this cheapness outlook but not because they think it should be cheaper but because they think they are entitled and that’s Byron locals. They will come in with there felt hats and three hundred dollar tie-dye fake hippy denim vests, cut the line and tell you exactly how long they have lived here and there complete lineage. I’ts fairly similar to the opening credits of game of thrones and equally as boring. They will also tell you how many items they have bought from the bakery in total and will get incredibly agitated when we tell them there is no locals price.
I have lived in a lot of places in a Australia and a few around the world but I’ve never lived anywhere where the locals have been so aggressive about what they think is there’s. I like to mess with them and tell them I am a local too as I have been here for almost seven months. This normally results in them stomping out of the shop as quick as their stovepipes will allow.
Of course there are acceptations to the rule and I don’t want anyone to think that every English person or Byron local is el cheapo nor do I want anyone to think that I’m racist cause I’ve totally banged like 6 English girls but I cant help but point out a stereotype. I should know I’m a walking stereotype. I’ve been getting called a stoner since before I knew what marijuana was.
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