Born here
September 15, 2005I was walking into work this morning, and I walked past two drunks outside the local pub, who were hollering and yelling at cars on the road. One of them said “Why don’t you go back to the country you came from?!!?”.
My reply: “Born here”
On a scale of 1 to 10, that racial abuse was definitely a 1. But I’ve always wanted to say that to somebody that was hurling racial epithets, just to see what their reaction would be. It’s funny to see their faces fall off when they realise the person they were insulting was actually born in this country, but looks different from a typical Anglo-Saxon Aussie.
