# "Some of my best friends are \_\_\_\_" **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 24, 2007, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-my-best-friends-are-____/397367 "2007-03-24T22:44:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 32
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-my-best-friends-are-____/397367/32 "2007-03-27T05:06:57Z")
[QUOTE=Honesty] :dubious: I’m curious, how often does this occur? [/QUOTE] Depends. Professionally I get accused of being a racist about 20% of the time I pull over a car driven by someone who isn’t white. The way I handle the charge is “I’m sorry you feel that way, but the reason I pulled you over was…”. That’s a technique trained in a verbal judo class and it works well enough. In my personal life I’ve never been truly accused of racism, but if I was I’d use the second response of “Yeah? What are you going to do about it?” That phrase, used in almost any situation, seems to get a rise out of anyone. I mean people really get pissed over it! Wife: You didn’t take the garbage out! Pk: Yeah? What are you going to do about it? Wife: Uh, um?😕 The proper response, I guess, is “I’m going to dump it over your fucking head!” But for some reason people get all flustered and storm off and don’t think of the snappy answer until an hour later. I wouldn’t think of using that phrase in a professional setting. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-my-best-friends-are-____/397367)._