HejiraHenry
Well-Known Member
We got one of those "urban legend" calls today to the newsroom. I happened to answer.
The guy said he had "heard from my sister, who got an email" that a soldier in uniform had been refused service by a convenience store clerk in town ... who was "middle eastern." On 9/11.
I called b.s. on that inside my head, then expressed out loud my skepticism based on the second-hand nature of the story and then thanked him for calling.
Turns out, someone else in the office had gotten the email, passed along from someone she didn't know very well.
And as it happens, there's another store in the vicinity of the one where this supposedly happened where the owner is well known as being virulently, well, "anti-Muslim" may not take in everything he's "anti-" about.
I think I see how the pieces might fit together ... unless, of course, it actually happened.
The guy said he had "heard from my sister, who got an email" that a soldier in uniform had been refused service by a convenience store clerk in town ... who was "middle eastern." On 9/11.
I called b.s. on that inside my head, then expressed out loud my skepticism based on the second-hand nature of the story and then thanked him for calling.
Turns out, someone else in the office had gotten the email, passed along from someone she didn't know very well.
And as it happens, there's another store in the vicinity of the one where this supposedly happened where the owner is well known as being virulently, well, "anti-Muslim" may not take in everything he's "anti-" about.
I think I see how the pieces might fit together ... unless, of course, it actually happened.