Whitexican here. It seems like more and more Anglos are bothered by the fact I am dating a gringa.

No matter where I go, there's almost always a ton of gringos and they always give me some sort of weird, hateful/arrogant/jealous stare and attitude just for being Latino. I've literally done nothing to these people.

I took my girl to some late night IHOP last night. I used to go there all the time at like 2AM with my friends and it was pleasant, good, and full of people enjoying themselves after a night out or something. We sat down and ordered our food. I told the waitress I wanted pancakes and she asked me what kind and I said "I have no fucking idea what different kinds of pancakes there are lady" ENTIRELY to loudly and the guy sitting behind us I hadn't noticed burst the hell up laughing.

I turn around. Mike Vallely.

He kinda half leans around me and says "Chocolate chip!" to the waitress and I just kinda stare at him for a sec then smile and say thanks. Later when we finished eating I was about to pay for it and he says "No way this one's on me" and pays the check for it right there. I was astounded, it was so awesome that I did the only thing I could think of ... The CKY salute. Once again he cracks up and asked me if I had any idea how long it had been since someone did that. I said "a year?" he said "try ten".

We ended up having coffee at a place across the street today. Turns out he bought a house in Monticeto, a really expensive residensial area in SB, and has been living there a while. We talked about everything that wasn't his hockey career for about 45 minutes before he had to take off because his deli stuff was gonna go bad. I shook his hand and said he made my year today.