How to be a Shmangster

She was wearing a hijab, and was probably in her twenties or so.

We were the only people in the store except for the white guy behind the counter.

And then another dude walked in, a beardy, white 40-something.

I was ready to buy my shit and leave but i just stood there, watching that old dude.

The midwest is such a shitshow i swear to god and I just couldn’t leave until that girl left too. I don’t know these men. I wasn’t going to leave the only other woman there, alone at night, with those two white men. Especially not a woman in a hijab.

I loitered and waited til she got her shit and left. I wandered to the front so I could watch her drive away.

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