I don't want to brag, but.. from grades 1 through 5 I got beat up at the bus stop by the neighbor boys while we waited for the school bus. I would then get beat up on the bus on the way to school by other kids. I would then get beat up randomly throughout the day during school. I would then get beat up waiting for the after-school bus to take us home. I would then get re-beat-up on the bus on the way back home. I would then get beat up as the bus drove away as the neighbor boys would finish their beatings from early that morning.
And that was just Mondays.
I was over to my favorite coffee shop the other day. Outdoors, across from UC Berkeley. I work remotely so it's a great place to go to get out of the house for an hour or so at lunch time. There are a number of people there I'm either friends with or on friendly terms with. People are working, taking a break, studying, whatever, we aren't all sitting together.
Black guy I've never seen before sits down next to a friend of mine, friend says something, and the guy gets all huffy. It didn't look good, he goes inside to get a coffee and I go over and ask my friend what the hell.
He tells me all he did was offer to move a chair or something and thinks maybe the guy has a chip on his shoulder, didn't quite hear, and assumed something else.
Dude comes out, takes one look at me, and says something like ''I should have known you two were friends'', whatever that means, and moves elsewhere.
Friend and I talk a little longer, just catching up a bit on other stuff. Dude comes back all apologetic, etc.
I go back, sit down, another person I know near me wants to know what the hell, and someone else we know near my friend asks him the same thing. Black dude sees all this, goes over to clear the air again.
It was like someone going into a bar in rural Alabama, giving someone shit, and realizing they're all cousins, Lol.