[ WP ] You 're telling your friend a joke at work by the water cooler , it is incredibly racist , when the head of the HR department walks by and finishes it .

Walter leans against the wall, a pasty blue tie dangles loosely from the open collar of a white shirt that's seen an abusive amount of starch, courtesy of a cheap mid-city dry cleaning service. 
 
 `` Hey! I got a good one for you,'' he says as he brings a slightly chewed Styrofoam cup to his curled lips. 
 
 Brian sits, cup in hand while performing a balancing act due to a wheel going AWOL from his favorite chair. `` Hit me, Walt.'' 
 
 `` So this wetback tells his family in Panama that he wants a better life and that he's heading to the good ole U. S. of A. He packs a couple of his things and his family wishes him good luck and to send them money when he gets there,'' Walter starts out after peering around the corner for a moment. `` He spends months of walking and hitchhiking through all these shitty-ass little countries until he finally reaches the US border. Along the way, he was given a map of places along the border where he'd be able to get across without being seen and nearby towns that were friendly to these illegal turds.'' 
 
 `` After a couple days of looking around, this kid wades across the river in the middle of the night and finally makes it to a town, knocking on one of the addresses on the list. An older woman answers it and seeing this dirty spic, this old bitch pulls him inside. She looks at him and asks him if he speaks any English, and the kid shakes his head no.'' 
 
 Walter stops and looks around a few more times before continuing, `` So this old broad takes him under her wing and teaches him English and gets him a job at a local high school as a janitor. Every so often, this illegal piece of crap sends money back to his dirty-ass family back in Panama, but putting some aside for himself to pay back the women who took him in.'' 
 
 `` A couple years later, he gets up one morning and comes into the kitchen with this little tin and says,'Ma'am, I'd like to repay you for all the help you've given me. It's not much, but I've saved up some money for you.''' 
 
 `` The old bat smiles at him and says,'If you want to thank me, you should use that to become a legal citizen, go to college, and be something more.' He reluctantly puts it away and the next morning, hugs her before leaving just as he left his family years ago.'' 
 
 Brian interrupts, `` Not that I do n't like this bed time story, but can we just skip to the punchline.'' 
 
 `` Uh, yeah,'' Walter stutters. `` So fast forward a couple years. This illegal got himself a visa, graduated college, and just started working for this financial firm in Houston, Texas. Some'Pride of the South' corporation made up of good old boys. One day, his tells him that he needs his toilet's scrubbed and this wetback kid talks back to him. His boss flips out and says...'' 
 
 ``... you're fired,'' Anne says as she walks by, her brow furrowed and lips pursed. `` We have a strict policy on racism in the workplace.''
