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[–] Mr_Woodblock 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

"Where are you from, friend?"

"Sweden."

"Ah! I didn't know there were still white people there."

"I don't understand."

I rephrased so he would understand the joke. "Oh I'm just surprised to see a white person from Sweden."

Can't tell if fake, or more likely, if the Swedish guy was also cracking a joke at your expense, like Bill Burr's bit about laughing at the racist white guy at a bar in Nashville who was getting pissed every time Terrell Owens was on the TV making millions but still complaining about something.

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[–] oldzeke [S] ago  (edited ago)

I can submit a slice-of-life story about the most pedestrian interaction, and reliably a couple people will say "fake!" As though it's my great ambition to sit and type up a fiction about a random Swedish tourist.

Anyway in the footnotes to this Short Story of 2018 nominee, you could see that the guy was uptight as hell, and it was sanctimony rather than humor that drove him.