From: McHell Manager

I'm pretty sure I never posted this story here, but if I have I'm sorry.

This took place a couple of years after 9/11 and I had a worker who was very...patriotic. He believed all of the hype about the racial crap that was being poured out of the media back then--All stuff Middle east=BAD AND AGAINST THIS COUNTRY AND SHOULD NOT EXIST!!! Why? Because AMERICA!!!!!!!!! He almost fainted the first time he heard me say "Okay, you're total is $9.11" and raged about how the whole attack was the worst thing on Earth (apparently the Holocaust never existed in his world.)

Back then, we had near full control of our crew room computer, and would change the screensavers on it every so often. Someone had set the screensaver to a scrolling marquee of my restaurant's slogan. I simply went in and changed the font into a foreign one. I didn't check which font it was, just saw that it was not an English font and went for it.

A couple of days later, I walked in to see it changed back to English. I set it back again, still not paying attention to what it was, and shortly afterwords my Racist worker, who we will call Dave, came in.

Dave: Did you just change that?!?

Me: Yes...why?

Dave: Because that's in ARABIC, and I am OFFENDED by Arabic!!!

Me: *Seeing that he is being an extreme dickface* ....You do know that I am half Arabic, right? (Not true, I'm half Czech.)

Dave's eyes bulged out and he went pale

Me: And just because a group of extreme Middle Eastern people decided to attack us, does not mean that ALL Middle Eastern people are evil. You are an asshole for even thinking that, and really I absolutely hate you for saying that. Please don't speak to me at all about anything not work related.

With that I turned back to the computer and continued to do whatever I was doing after I changed the screensaver. Dave just stood there awkwardly for about a minute before walking off. Curious, I checked the font type I chose, and later walked up to him.

"By the way, that font... was Hebrew." I'm pretty sure he had a stroke after that from all of his blood draining from his face.

This guy was so ignorant that he thought that a language base was a cultural race base. After all, you don't go around and say "I'm Arabic," you say "I'm Israeli," or "Muslim," or "Afghani." He also just assumed that the writing was "Arabic" when it was really Hebrew. Which yes, they do look alike but that's like saying a German word looks like an English word. And to assume that everything Middle Eastern is anti-American is just the epitome of ignorant.

--McHell Manager