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Had a terrfic row with some woman on the phone just now. I am booked into the Freeman next tuesday to have my airway enlarged [again] and they send you a form which you have to fill in and send back prior to admission. A kind of get out of jail free thing for them in the event of mishaps.
Anyway, this old biddy says to me I have filled in the thing wrong. So I asked where and how as I had made sure everything was top hole. 'Your nationality' she says, 'you have crossed out British and put English'. So I said 'well I am' then she starts to lecture me that I can't do that as it's not allowed. I ask her who said it wasn't allowed and she says the race relations board as it might upset ethnic minorities.
That got my goat as on the form nationality section it has a list asking your skin colour and wether you are 'Irish' 'Carribean' 'Bangladeshi' etcetera. So we hollered the toss at each other until she threatened to cancel my admission. That sent me ballistic and I said if they did I would contact the RRB myself and complain at this negative racism. We settled at that.
But it makes you realise why folk are turning to the BNP in numbers doesn't it?
Anyway, this old biddy says to me I have filled in the thing wrong. So I asked where and how as I had made sure everything was top hole. 'Your nationality' she says, 'you have crossed out British and put English'. So I said 'well I am' then she starts to lecture me that I can't do that as it's not allowed. I ask her who said it wasn't allowed and she says the race relations board as it might upset ethnic minorities.
That got my goat as on the form nationality section it has a list asking your skin colour and wether you are 'Irish' 'Carribean' 'Bangladeshi' etcetera. So we hollered the toss at each other until she threatened to cancel my admission. That sent me ballistic and I said if they did I would contact the RRB myself and complain at this negative racism. We settled at that.
But it makes you realise why folk are turning to the BNP in numbers doesn't it?