Overheard Starbuck

"What was her problem?"
---"She gets sullen--cranky--when she's near someone as carelessly dressed as you. ... Are those your L.L. Bean boots? Were you mucking around the fields today? "
"My Grandma would panic when she saw a black person-- an African-American--walking around the neighborhood. My Dad said sometimes Grandpa had to beg her not to call the cops. ... She use to curse outloud when she saw a Mexican."