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Anonymous
A tale of the abrupt American attitude that irks the British and one hypocritical young Briton:
Lately the local council have paved over an old railway track to make a cycle path, and they failed to account for a huge fucking wall that blocks it after half a mile.
I was walking in that direction and I noted to an elderly Scots woman the futility of their endeavour. We enjoyed a mutual whine, as Europeans do, and went about our business.
I then encountered an elderly American fellow (golfing town, WASP nest) who said something like, "Jeez, what was the point of paving over this old path if there's a huge wall in the middle of the road?"
I, of course, was taken aback by..well, the fact that he was American (like Clint Eastwood or Puff Daddy D:), but I quickly recovered and gave my approval to his sentiments, adding a quip about the level of bureaucracy in our local government affairs for good measure.
Let me tell you: I fucking RAGED when this filthy yank imperialist swine DARED to criticise MY council after electing that FUCK Dubya Bush. I was seething with breast-inflating fury as I walked on, noting this "typical American arrogance" to the next acquaintance I met.
The moral of the story: though many American tourists are arrogant, loud, clueless pricks, Europeans are likewise guilty of being arrogant, defensive, prejudiced pricks.
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