Book Board Chat

Good Evening Everyone. Going to be a hard freeze night here. Doing laundry so the pipes outside will be nice and warm [septic system] and the garage warm from the dryer for the outside dog and cat [who insist on staying OUTSIDE -- but at least they have a choice what with the dog door. Will have to get up early tomorrow to break ice in the dog's water dishes outside [she refuses to drink out of her inside dishes, sigh], the chicken water and Rusty's water.

Prejudice -- Back when my Dad was getting his Master's in International Studies, I went with to some professors party, most were professors -- was youngest person there, a freshman. All were polite, but not like I was even close to being in their conversation interest zones. Well, so I was sitting at one place and there were three professors behind me talking. approx. grist condensed.
Prof #1 [male white American] -- What, why are you bothering with that student number mess?
Prof #2 [female American] -- I don't know what I am going to do, there is this one student I can't stand and I've figured out what number matches him. Going to have to have my assistant do his papers. But why are you bothering?
Prof #3 [black african with a pleasant accent] - I know, but I had to start it this year.
Prof #1 and 2 -- why?
Prof #3 -- I was taking my car to get it checked this summer. Took it to my garage. My mechanic was gone, moved. A new mechanic was introduced to me. Said none of the scheduled times worked for me. Drove off went to another shop. Another mechanic. It wasn't until I was paying that I realized that I didn't want the replacement mechanic to work on my car. He was American black but looked pure - name of some tribe -
one or the other Prof -- So? Why?
Prof #3 -- name of some tribe are considered lazy, clumby, incompetent, cheats by my tribe, and a few others. I see the different tribes in the American blacks all the time. Without thinking or realizing it I took my business elsewhere. So now I am using student numbers to identify papers just like everyone else. Don't want to knock down grades just because of raised biases I'm doing without thinking.