Please give me suggestions for therapy

[Clinton]

Somebody asked me where I'm from. I said Essex.

They asked me again, "Where are you really from?"

I said India.

They said, "oh, I have friends there".

I said, "Oh, that's great".

We moved on.

This has been a very traumatic experience for me.

Does anyone know where I can get the right therapy?

 

[Mark T Jones]

Somebody asked me where I'm from. I said Essex.

They asked me again, "Where are you really from?"

I said India.

They said, "oh, I have friends there".

I said, "Oh, that's great".

We moved on.

This has been a very traumatic experience for me.

Does anyone know where I can get the right therapy?

Haha I get it

But I also think the aide was a bit out of touch.

 

[Annoying Donkey]

But where do you REALLY come from...!

 

[Lucan Unlordly]

I once casually asked a customer where her name hailed from and she went straight on the attack saying how she was born in this country etc., I explained that I was asking about the origins of her name 'Sherazina' (or something like that) not her personally and she was mildly apologetic, going on to say that her mum was Egyptian her dad English.
I thought it quite sad that she was primed to kick off.......

 

[Onthebrightside]

Both my first and surname are typically Irish (I'm not Irish at all in any way) yet people always ask me where my people are from. London is my common response. Yes, but where are they actually from. Shepherd's Bush is my usual response. No, I mean what part of Ireland did they come from. We're not from Ireland I respond. Oh, with a name like that I thought you would be Irish. Are you sure your grandparents weren't Irish. It just goes on for ages.

I've been asked by numerous people, from numerous places around the world and not once have I EVER made a scene about it or felt that they were being racist in any way. Frankly, I feel they are just taking an interest in me, making conversation. It's an ice breaker.

It's petty to take umbrage over something so minor, particularly from someone so old. My great uncle once asked me if I intended to go into the church now that my chances of marrying were so low (I was only 24 but he felt I had been left on the shelf!). You have to forgive the elderly for such comments. My cousins and I were laughing so much and he couldn't work out why.

 

[Lucan Unlordly]

We took mum to a Chinese restaurant for the first time. In a very slow voice she said to the waiter....
'm y f i r s t t i m e e a t C h i n e s e', he replied in an East End accent 'I'm from Stratford luv'...?

 

[Clinton]

One black woman from East London, with a chip on her shoulder, who is a sworn and self-proclaimed anti-royalist but who still attended an event at Buckingham Palace, got her 15 minutes of fame.

The no-nonsense Nana Akua does a great job of demolishing this silly moo.

Now we can all move on.

And those of us with hair can do others the courtesy of organising it so it doesn't cover our name badges. (Why does everyone need to make an exception if you've got Afro hair? Just move your bloody name badge or tie your hair so it doesn't get in the way of the name badge, you numbskull. It's not that difficult.)