re: So that was awkward

I was alone in an elevator at my friend's apartment building in Atlanta a few years ago, and on comes a nice young black gentleman that is somehow holding 3 watermelons. Being the bigot little shite that I was, I thought it would be hilarious to get a picture of this walking stereotype. So I discretely pull out my phone, get the angle just right so he doesn't notice, and take the picture.

In that moment, I forgot I had the flash on, as well as the volume, so a nice "krr-chick" photo sound fills the elevator, and it becomes clear to the nice gentleman that I had just taken a photo of him. He looks at me, I look back at him, and the silence is brutal. And then, as the elevator comes to a stop and the door opens, he shakes his head disapprovingly as it is now obvious that I am a piece of shite racist. He walks off the elevator, and I reevaluate my life.