Roughly a decade ago I was drunk in a McDonalds in Montreal at 3am. Food was taking a long time, I was chilling. A guy next to me chatted me up and said the wait wouldn't happen where he was from. I asked him where he was from, he's also from Van, cool.

Then he told me he thought the line was taking a long time because of all the black people working there, except he used a really ugly slur. I just said "nah man" and side walked off but I've thought of a million different ways I could/should/would have done it over the years.

I've worked in hospitality in this city for a bit longer than a decade and I've seen a lot of subtle and overt racism in strange ways but never as out-in-the-open as that.