Submitted by your grandfather.

/they're called Asians
//orientals are rugs and spices
///not a bookmark

True story: I work at a oh-so-very-latte-liberal non-profit where everyone and everything is "PC" to the point of nausea. If you knew me you'd know just how extreme it is, because I'm actually one of those progressives who thinks most of what we call "PC" is actually just acting like a decent human being. I'm liberal and proud, hear me roar, blah blah blah, etc etc etc.

Anyway, I'm in a meeting with around 30 people. A client of ours mentions that there isn't a men's bathroom on the floor. We're a staff of mostly women and I represent the only Y-chromosome, so someone jokes that I should either "go ahead and get that operation" or otherwise "quitcherbiatchin and walk down the single flight of stairs to pee." I chuckled... hey, it's office humor, so the bar is set pretty low.

BUT THEN... a project manager who is probably in her early 40s says: "No, he's not the only guy. There's a tiny little oriental man in the next office."

Sensing that she has made a faux pas, she corrected herself and said--without the slightest hint of irony or sarcasm: "oh, sorry, I meant a little midget Chinaman."

The ensuing uncomfortable silence was GOLDEN and AWESOME!


/I know, I know... long story. But it amused me for days.