Laura Jedeed (Misanthrophile)

So I'm picking up a delivery at a Burger King and they're out of one of the things my customer ordered. We sort it out but of course they have to make the substitute food and it's taking a minute I'm sitting in my car and I hear someone shout "Come ON! Move faster!!"

A few minutes later they shout again, very annoyed at either the workers or me, can't tell. Either way I'm not into it so I turn around and yell something about calm the fuck down, we're all doing our best

Turns out the shouter is a big black dude doing a walk-up to the drive-thru. Race becomes important in a minute here, bear with me So he shouts "I'm just giving them shit, and anyway, hey, mind your fucking business!!"

There is a switch in my brain that flips to "fight" and cannot be unflipped until the fight is over. Always been that way So I look this dude in the eyes and say "do we have a fucking problem?!" And I'm braced and ready for a shouting match. But that's not how it goes down

He drops his gaze almost immediately. Kind of muttering angrily but even that stops as I keep staring at him. "Yeah, shut the fuck up, how about that?" I say as I turn away, savoring this unexpectedly quick victory for the two seconds it takes me to figure out what just happened

He's black. I'm white-passing. There's no way this goes well for him. And there are some ways that end up with him dead by cop, if this gets loud enough I won by default. I had all the power the whole time