Down with the Mang

    Went to Hearst Castle this weekend and now I have a new stereotype.  I first want to thank all the mang who made this stereotype possible.  For it was you that broke down all PC walls and demanded to be branded by ThaGierk.  We all know that the mang cannot drive.  Like white people can't dance, black people love a good rib, and the Spanish love their beer.  Now, unless you're a liberal PC yahoo who lives to label racists and all other who don't see your point of view, then you can just stop reading this. I'm not at work, so I don't need to abide by your political correctness of the world.  This message is for the Real Americans who deal with death on a day by day basis.  You could be an Asian who was almost killed by your brethren in your local Asian market parking lot.  You could be a white man who accidentally stepped on another white mans shoe and got your ass kicked but good.  You could be a cop kicking the ass out of some local gay man over a bag of fajitas.  Not a stereotype but still pretty stupid.  Which brings me to my point.  Some Mangs on historical tours can be FUCKIN stupid.  It's a cross generation thing too.  The young, the teen and the older mang just have no respect for anyone or anything.  Now the white, black and other cultures can be just as stupid, but this weekend the Asian mang took the cake. 

I kid you not, if there was a rule the mang broke it.  Not only broke it but laughed at everyone else in the process.

Rule 1:  Please turn off all cell phones.

            Pretty simple.  Not for the teenager Asian girl next to us.  Just after the tour bus driver told us this, her freaking phone goes off.  No problem I thought.  She'll just  turn it off or so I thought, but she picked it up and answered it.  And started talking.  You could hear the silent moan throughout the bus as she just kept talking.  And because there was a cd playing for us about the history of  Hearst Castle she had to raise her voice even louder.  The bus driver cranked up the volume on the cd player to drown her out but she just kept raising her voice.  Her call ended with her basically screaming into the phone "I'll have to call you back, the tour cd is playing too loud" then she hung up and gave everyone including the bus driver the evil eye.  A half hour later on the walking tour her phone went off again, and she proceeded to talk over the tour guide.

Rule 2: Do not let your children run off.

        Again not a tough one to figure out.  Of course there are many perverts out there that would love to corner your child in a bathroom. But Hearst Castle if full of art, antiques, and special flower gardens meticulously cared for by those who wish to preserve it.  Baby Asian child of about 4 went running off and started jumping into the flower beds.  Everyone on the tour except the mangs went into shock.  We all just stood there with our mouths wide open in disbelief.  The child was kicking up flowers and pulling fruit from the lower branches of fruit trees above the flower box.  The tour guide was trying to get the kid out of the flower bed by using her stern voice, but being this kid only knew English as a second language didn't help matters.  The god dammed parents thought it was funny and started snapping pictures.  It wasn't until this goat tee guy with a Black West Coast Chopper T-shirt screamed that the parents pulled the kid out.

Rule 3: Don't wonder off

           Yep, guess what it happened.  To be fair it was the white broad with the German accent that was caught being stupid.

Rule 4: Don't touch anything and stay on the walking carpets.

        Shit is old, so don't touch including walking off the tourist carpets and seating on beds.  75 year old mang was in violation of both these rules at the same freaking time.  She walked off the carpet and sat on Mr. Hearst bed!!  When the guide ask her to get off the bed, she used the night table to push off from.  I looked over at goat tee man (by this time we had formed a friendship about how inconsiderate people could be) and he just rolled his eyes in disgust.

With the exception of jumping into the swimming pools I figure all rules must have been broken.  I'm not the police, and as much as I love to people watch,  I love a good history lesson about an old rich guy living the American dream even better.  Goat man told me of some other infractions made by the mang that I didn't see.  Something about a mang spitting gum in the staircase.  Dam them!!!

Just when I thought it was all over two things went down at the food court and the gift shop. 

    Mang straight was rude to me and my wife over something that I didn't understand.  Perhaps they were mad that I took the last Dipin' Chicken order.  I really don't know.  My wife was happy to let them know they were being rude, which is good, maybe they will learn.

And last but not least....In the gift shop while I was buying some over priced souvenirs I got stuck behind a mang that wanted to return everything he just bought.  WTF!!!  If you didn't want it, why did you buy it!!!  At what point did you figure that you didn't want the crap that you picked out.

Mang is not a racist word.  Get over it, be offended, it's ok.  We're all human.  Words don't hurt those who have self esteem and know it's bullshit to begin with.  I love the whole world, and yet I'm still honest.