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Thursday, 10 November 2011



The day the old German lady answered the Turk and nobody knew how to react

Ines was in a tram going home after work. 
The tram was full, some people were standing as there were no seats left. 
An old lady entered the tram with a walking stick, looking for the special yellow seats that were reserved to the 
elder or handicapped. 
It happened that on this seat there was a 
very young and wrong-understood Turkish immigrant 
sitting, staring at the lady with a look that said: 
don’t you even try to take me off my seat! 
He had already prepared his speech, just for the case someone would dare to try sitting there.  
The old lady politely asked: 
Excuse me, young man. May I have a seat? 
He said: 
No. You may not. We are more than 3 million Turks now. 
No Turk has to move aside for a bloody German anymore! 
The old lady sighed. She smiled and in a low and firm voice said: 
Well, young boy. We used to have millions of jews around here, too. 

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