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From bandgeek:

You can fix it.....

What happened: I am a Filipino band geek. So I was at practice. We were having our lunch break, and I was sitting with my friends. Suddenly, all hell broke lose when a girl spilt soda on her beloved DVD player (pretty stupid in my opinion. She was freaking out; so, I tried to help (aka drying it out with a napkin and telling her to use a hair dryer at home on it). I was drying it out when this complete dumb*ss says to me, "Come on, you're Asian you can fix it."

What I said: Nothing. I just hit him.

What I SHOULD have said: I really have no idea about what I should have said. Maybe something like: "I'm micropolynesian, dumb*ss"

on the stairs

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