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This happened last night, October 17th, 2009. Downtown Guelph, Ontario.

I was stopped abruptly by a girl on the street after the bar, I was coming out of an ally after I took a leak behind a dumpster. She asked me why I peed… I told her the obvious reason, to which she replied that I was a “fuck” for doing so and asked where I was from. I told her Dundas, to which she replied “the street?” I said “No, Hamilton.” Ugh.

She pointed across the street and said, “Yep, that’s why you’re a fuck, you’re from Hamilton, go over there.”

I said “What? Because I’m from Hamilton and I had to pee you’re segregating me to the other side of the street?” She said “Yep!”. Now, this chick was serious, she was pretty sober and the other thing was, her friend was standing beside her laughing and smoking the whole time…

I asked her if she knew how stupid and ignorant she was being and also asked where she was from and if she had ever peed in an inappropriate place, she said “no way!” to that and said she was from Timmins… I told her I didn’t believe her when she said she had never peed in a place not deemed for doing so. I also asked her to think critically about what she was saying and how baseless her argument was.

Then she accused me of being the “ignorant bastard” for not thinking critically myself, peeing in public…

Then she asked me if I was a student at Guelph, to which I said “yes”. Then she asked me what my major was, to which I replied “English”. She cried, “Well that’s a fucking waste! I’m Bachelor of Science, at least I’m useful!”

Furious, I asked her why she was being so rude. She laughed and then she pointed at my beard and said, and I quote: “I knew you were a fuck from the moment I saw that stupid chinstrap on your face. It’s the beard man, you should shave it.” She laughed when I had nothing to say in amazement.

This girl was strait faced and serious, I mean, I’ve been a dick before to someone’s face, but not to this degree and not without letting them know that I was just joking, completely. Her friend said nothing and stared at me with a smile.

So there it is, I was pretty spooked out by this girl, who eventually was grabbed by a douche bag wearing an Ed Hardy shirt with a basket of Sun Sun’s Chinese food, who said, and I quote “Don’t waste your time with these guys, come on we’re leaving this shit hole!”……

The scariest thing is, I have never witnessed first hand something so ugly. I feel like somehow I was placed in the body of another person, someone who experiences racism or prejudice first hand and can’t really do anything about it, just being humiliated for no reason… Wow. I thought Guelph students where better than that at least.

Moral of the story? Fuck intolerance and ignorance and thank the Universe I’m nothing like them… As for beards, THEY RULE! I don’t even have a chin strap anyway!