mixed couples
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In a message dated 11/25/02 7:30:29 PM, amyanda2000@... writes:
<< its
pretty well blended here. To see two people of the same race together
(as in a couple) is more out of the ordinary! >>
When we went to see Fiddler on the Roof earlier this month I got in early for
being in a wheelchair, and it being my Big Outing, and me being in the
wheelchair dock right by the entrance to the main floor, I was having fun
seeing all the people come by. I saw a mixed couple in their 60's or maybe
even 70. The man was black and the woman was anglo. I wondered if they were
married, because they weren't acting datish, but they were talking. Then
maybe ten feet behind them, separated by six or seven various other people
was another couple, same age, other way--black woman/white man.
They were dressed about the same level of formality, seemed of the same
economic class (richer than WE are--I was guessing professors or healthcare),
and the other couple was also chat, chat, chat. So I thought it was two coup
les who had come together, and had split out to have conversations. (By
"thought" I mean the zippy scenarios which never quit coming in my head ran
that one as "likely.")
Nope, I was wrong. They weren't together. Didn't sit together, didn't look
at each other.
So then I thought if they'd been couples since they were in their 20's,
maybe, or 30's (which isn't necessarily so either, I know), that means they
endured some serious pressure, because their parents would've been born in
1910, give or take. And if they had kids, that would have been in the
1950's.
Or maybe they all just lately hooked up. I don't know. But here, I'm laying
out a recent experience and the speculation-dump to go with it.
Sandra
<< its
pretty well blended here. To see two people of the same race together
(as in a couple) is more out of the ordinary! >>
When we went to see Fiddler on the Roof earlier this month I got in early for
being in a wheelchair, and it being my Big Outing, and me being in the
wheelchair dock right by the entrance to the main floor, I was having fun
seeing all the people come by. I saw a mixed couple in their 60's or maybe
even 70. The man was black and the woman was anglo. I wondered if they were
married, because they weren't acting datish, but they were talking. Then
maybe ten feet behind them, separated by six or seven various other people
was another couple, same age, other way--black woman/white man.
They were dressed about the same level of formality, seemed of the same
economic class (richer than WE are--I was guessing professors or healthcare),
and the other couple was also chat, chat, chat. So I thought it was two coup
les who had come together, and had split out to have conversations. (By
"thought" I mean the zippy scenarios which never quit coming in my head ran
that one as "likely.")
Nope, I was wrong. They weren't together. Didn't sit together, didn't look
at each other.
So then I thought if they'd been couples since they were in their 20's,
maybe, or 30's (which isn't necessarily so either, I know), that means they
endured some serious pressure, because their parents would've been born in
1910, give or take. And if they had kids, that would have been in the
1950's.
Or maybe they all just lately hooked up. I don't know. But here, I'm laying
out a recent experience and the speculation-dump to go with it.
Sandra