UGH! Why does the US has so many ignorant people. It was yesterday, 4th of July and my older sister came down from LA to eat. ( I live in San Diego.)
Anyway my sister wanted to watch twilight but her boyfriend didn't want to go with her, and so me being the nice little brother I am, decided to go with. She's always been watching action movies with me so I thought I should return the favor. So we are at the movies, getting some snacks and I told her I'd pay for her. She told me want she want and I order, so the guy at the register is like, "So is you and your date paying separate or together." I was like WTF? I Said "Dude, she's my big sister." And for some strange reason this like rattle him, he dropped my debit card, you could literally see the "Does not compute" error written on his forehead. True, she's blond hair, blue eyes, while I have black hair and dead sexy carmel/milk chocolate skin. But I'm sure people heard of adoption before, or at least watched the blind side.
But anyway, I was hoping he was just going to slide my card and give us our food. But no, he wanted to pursue this further. So he says. "How, how does that work?" Now even though my sister is older than me, we have been very connected like twins almost, and so I could just feel the vibes that she was going slap the taste out of his mouth. I look at her arms and they were tensed, her fist like clutching every few seconds. I knew I had to distract the situation quick or this dude was going to end up with a bruise on his face. So I said "Well I came out white, but the doctor sprayed chocolate on me to confuse my family." It fortunately diffuse the situation as my sister calmed down, now hopefully this was going to give the dude a chance to just get us our food and let us go see this female driven movie. But did it happen? No. He laughs, but ask "heh, but seriously, how are you guys related?"
That was it, my sister lost it. She yells" None of your damn business! Now give us our food!" Startled, and I guess finally getting the hint, he rushes to get our food. I just laugh, and tell her that I'm so glad she's down. When we get out food, my nice guy personality kicked in cause I could see he looked like sad and embarrass. So I grab the food and tell him I'm adopted. The light bulb click inside his head and he says thanks and we go see this movie.
But good god, was it really that necessary. Just to make the automatic assumption alone was bad enough, but than he had to pry? I don't know it just bugged me.