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This is the Capitol Hill Dick’s Deluxe on 115 Broadway E in Seattle:

 

This is the manager:

 

To be honest, the only reason why I would go there at all is  because there isn’t any other place in the general vicinity to get a hamburger “on the go.” Otherwise, I’d never go there. The food isn’t bad, relative to the lack of local competition (there used to be a  Burger King on Broadway. but that was many, many moons ago), and the closest 7-Eleven is a mile away on Stewart Street. 

So not unexpectedly this place takes advantage of that with an excessive price-per-square millimeter of product. A few bites later you wonder what you paid for. They even make you pay extra for ketchup for the hamburgers and cheeseburgers, and the coffee is always lukewarm.

The message here is if you are going to piss someone off with rude and discriminatory behavior, it just better not be me. You can ask Metro about that; not that it matters anymore, since I discovered they lied to me when they told me there wasn’t an alternative mode of transportation for my specific need—meaning the Sounder train, which is not only faster but I can still use my senior card to pay for it.

Anyways, I always get the impression in the rare times I stop at this Dick’s place that they are not interested in me or my money. It’s like when I’m next in line the person at the window tries to put the cover up and get away before I can order something. It’s not like they “know” me, so what is it that they “see” that they feel the need to be rude and discriminatory?

Well, I know, but let’s move on. Today I went there after picking up some new films purchased from Amazon to add to my collection (I just can’t stop). There were two lines, with a black woman being next in line on one side, and I was “next” on the other side. There was a third counter next to the one I was waiting at that was covered.  While I was waiting for the people in front of me to stop bullshitting, suddenly an employee rushed to that closed counter, quickly removed the cover just as a white man turned the corner so he’d get there before I had a chance to move. It was obviously deliberate.

Well, I wasn’t taking this lying down. I said hey he’s not next in line, what the hell is going on here? Now the black woman, who was still waiting in the other line, agreed with my view, except that she declared that she was next in line and got out of her line and moved to the open one (I just thought I’d be “nice” about it). What did the white guy do? He didn’t get behind me, he just went to the line vacated by black woman, and started mumbling something about not knowing what the “problem” was.

I’m thinking what the fuck is going on here? The people in the line I was still standing in were jawing with the employee who was in no apparent hurry, and naturally the window at the other line opened and this white guy still got in front of me because he is a rude, racist asshole. I said fuck all you assholes and walked away, declaring that they were all bunch of Nazis anyways.

OK, so this is my perspective, even though people who look like me are not allowed to have a “perspective.” One, they see a “Mexican.” Two, they don’t have any “Mexicans” working there; of course many such businesses employ “Mexicans” as cooks, but this is one place that takes “pride” in the fact that they don’t  “discriminate” against the “locals.” Generally I would agree with that in principle, but it’s a bit hypocritical when they accept the fact that all these convenience store are staffed by Indians and not “the locals.”

Seattle is supposed to be a “liberal” city, and while there is some “activist” element there, as there was a May Day event last week where I saw a few anti-ICE signage, it was hardly the “massive” display that the media called it. In general, my impression is that there is a culture of, well, you don’t belong here, especially if you are a Hispanic male, since you are only here to "steal" something (jobs or cars or whatever you think in the black hole of your mind).

Why did these people feel the need to be rude and discriminatory? Because, as I said before, there is a little bit of that Nazi in many people, even in “liberal” Seattle. That Dick’s will be a place I will never even think of going to again, and it is just as well because it is a waste of money anyways, and the people there act like they are doing you a “favor” by ripping you off. Good riddance to bad rubbish.