So I'm never a fan of the ATM at the Chase Bank by the GF. The lines are always long and the machines act funny.
I had to go there today. Sure enough, the lines were longer than usual as 1 machine was out, one wasn't dispensing cash (there are 3 in total). Now, this is a Caribbean neighborhood, with a strong melanin content. As people are waiting in line, this mid fifties white guy walks in and makes a beeline to the ATM that wasn't. Someone calls him out for bypassing the line, and of course he gets into an argument with the girl who called him out.
"Of course I saw everyone was waiting for cash so I cut the line. I'm smart, that's how I get ahead." He says while getting more defensive.
"It's about the principle of the thing," the girl shot back. "You just bypassed people without asking. That was rude."
This is an example of doing the right thing in the incorrect manner. He was right to go for the machine. He was incorrect by not asking while skipping the whole line, especially in a situation where everyone in the space had melanin except him. There are countless versions of this sort of micro aggression and privileges mindless behavior at work.
Currently, to me this was another microcosm of why 'Murcia is where it is now - chasing greatness it never truly had by stepping over others that don't fit the narrative.
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