Walking tall and proud with my new too high sandels from country road, with a new long white embroided top, and white hijab, beside me cousin, with her peach chiffon dress top and an elegantly matching peach hijab.
We were both happy to be shopping around at miranda shopping center in sydney, following my husband in his quest to find the perfect gift for his brother's birthday that night.
Some old wrangled tall guy with a pony tail walking in the opposite direction, with his child and wife(?) by the time he reaches level with us whispers over his shoulder, having fallen victim to the now overly exhausted term, labelling of us as terrorists.
What do we do? What can we do? By the time we consult each other if it was our imagination, now why would we encourage this victim mentality, why would we conjur up such an incident to ruin our good mood? no it wasnt our imagination.
By the time we found my husband, we had lost the insulter. about an hour later thanks to Allah for sending him back to our direction, all that fuming and frustration paid off, we left it to husband to make him admit his crime, and all his response was "Dont make a scene, im not a racist" and a sarcastic disgusted"oh please!" from the female with him. Then they walked off..we were left standing there, not feeling any better, frustration building up. i didnt want it to be one of those "we should have done this.." times, i had too many festering inside me already.
They were a few meters away and we had already received a few questioning glances from passerby's at the hushed almost whispered confrontation that had just taken place. All i could do was yell at the top of my voice "COWARD!" in their general direction. and then just in case those around me hadnt made out what exactly i'd said i yelled it again. No festering what if's in my head that day. Maybe it wasnt the right thing to do, Im usually a very quiet person but it made me feel better to get some of that frustration out. and the beautiful immediate thanks i received was my husband kiss me on my right cheek, and a kiss from my cousin on my other=)
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Now thats really brave! & wat u did is just right! i mean u went easy on him at the begining & polite, but some people should just be taught a lesson. ;)
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