Now, Mellow, read between the lines a bit. Clearly some amnesia at work here and given the description of toy preferences, there may indeed by more than one species involved. Species trumped race last time I checked.
But to your point several pages back, when I walked in to set up my utilities, I was so taken aback by the oddness that I did indeed let the clerk wait on me and then got out as quickly as possible. I befriended a black manager at Enterprise over time (did a lot of traveling in the state) and asked him about this and other similar experiences. He, of course, knew exactly what I was talking about and confided that the worst thing I could have done would have been to make an issue of it. My fellow citizens, he says, would have paid dearly for my "fairness" and their willingness to accept it. I did learn a few tricks for bucking the system, but fear remained a powerful tool even that late in our history and was used to achieve what Jim Crow no longer was allowed to accomplish. Sad and depressing. We left after only a couple of years. Not sure which was more disturbing; the fire ants or my "fellow" white folk.
