I'm curious why chloe felt that she had to let us know that he was an Indian man. I dont think it added anything to the story.
If he was white I believe she just would've said "man".
It's no different from saying "this old dude" or "some kid". It's just a descriptor, it doesnt become a race thing til people like you make it into a race thing.
I'm not taking it as a race thing. Let me clarify: for me at least, people who describe themselves and their reality through one filter irritate me, but I'm not losing sleep over it. If someone in my life belongs to whatever race/gender/religion, great for them. If they relate everything back to that all of the time, it'll get old pretty quickly. In one screenshot, this person brings up race twice. That's obviously not a deal breaker, but if she and I are hanging out and she is always saying things like "white people are like this" or "look at that black guy" I will get annoyed and end up cutting her out of my life. Race has nothing to do with my thought process at any point; it's just exhausting when someone is always in one head space. Either way, sweet story..
This older dude always used to be on my bus route since I was in high school. We ended up talking when he noticed me watching Star Trek on my way home and he was amazed that someone my age was watching ToS. It's been seven years and we still talk and go out for coffee once in a while. This other guy (probably i his early 60's) used to be on that same route and I stopped using it for a while and he saw me one time and started talking to me asking about how life was going. I told him about what I was doing in University and he gave me a pep talk about "you're smart, determined, and you can do anything." and it was honestly the sweetest moment. I think about him a lot. And the actual bus driver on that route became friends with me and got me a Star Trek DVD one year for my bday. That bus will always hold so many good memories.
This is awesome!! Glad to know you got to experience something others don’t even take the time or even want to, realize there are others out there that share the same interest as you. All ya need to do is look around an talk to people. Yes you are gonna get the “freaks”, ones who creep ya out or say something that is off the wall, or ya gonna get the ones who don’t wanna be bothered with. So ya can move them aside an find the ones that you might become forever friends with. Kinda like this site. I’ve seen people here become best of buds an some unfortunately become worst enemy’s. I am an introvert but I do like to make friends especially when it’s by accident. Kinda like you did on the bus. You made buds with total strangers just by them starting a conversation with ya about something you were doing. I hope you find more buds like this. To me it makes me happy that people are willin to talk to each other. Hope everybody readin this has a great rest of the week and an awesome weekend!!
If he was white I believe she just would've said "man".