so today i went to the "safeway" near my house to buy some groceries so i can have something to eat and spend so much money on food. Anyway i found what i needed and went to pay. Once i got there, there was a shift change i guess and it went from an older asian lady to this white dude in his twenties i guess, who spent most of his time on his blackberry texting or something. 

So yea he scans my stuff and then asks me "do you have a safeway card?"

me: "no"

dude:"would you like one? its free and easy"

me:"umm sure"

dude:"just move here?"

me:"yea"

dude:"where from?"

me:"from LA"

dude:"huh" (with this superiority complex look on his face, kinda disgust), do you have a vons card down there? you can input the same number here."

me:"oh alright"

dude:"still want the safeway card?"

me:"nah im cool"

Needless to say when he looked at me like "dude you suck", I looked at him like "fuck you man". the only reason y this bothered me was because thats the kind of reaction i get every time i say i'm from LA. I mean i don't mind that im an outsider, i have been before but people out here seem so royalist about it, so utopian, as if San Francisco was this great all encompassing and tolerant place. Its different yes i will admit that. But honestly it feels like a city sized version of UCLA in some ways. Seriously most if not all of the people i've see here have been either asian or white. Of course there is the smaller mixture of minority groups like latinos, but its pretty self evident that there is some kind of segregation, but not completely. I mean there is a mixture with in the segregation, but the difference is still there. And black people well all i can do is quote "today i realized how you did it, you but all them nigers on the other side of that bridge". Anyway i digress.

I dunno if its just me or no one else see's it, but yea being an outsider around here just seems like your not good enough to be here kinda thing. Course the doesn't go for all people. I have met and conversed with some people that have been cool and welcoming but in the majority i can't say that is the way it is.