2007-08-20 10:27:21 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I worked in a doctors office in North Seattle. We had a suprising number of Rom (gypsy) patients.
I'm not stero typing, I'm just stating what happened....every single time they came we, we had stuff stollen. Syringes, needles, gauze, surgical tools, bandaids, OTC drugs, magazines, books, a wall hanging.....anything we kept in the rooms, left with them.
It fianally got to the point we wouldn't leave them alone in a room, EVER, not even to change. They would also promise to pay the bill on the way out, when they were done, they would rush out the door. They went to collections every single time. There were probably 45 of them, all related in one way or another.
From previous experience, and the stories my Mom told me about her encounters with Rom, when we lived in Chicago, I would not be happy at all to have them as neighbors.
Not trying to slander a people, just stating about experinces I had, and ones my Mother had 40 years prior to that have not been at all possitive.
~Garnet
Homesteading/Farming over 20 years.
2007-08-20 10:58:15 · answer #1 · answered by Bohemian_Garnet_Permaculturalist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, not a true Romany - as it would mean that I had lost my house and was living in a caravan :0(, however, I have no problems with anybody as long as they respected my space, and were not living it up all the time, at the cost of my own sleep.
Of course that depends on your definition of a Gypsy - there are a lot of folks out there who are not Gypsies, but give them a rather bad name. Each year we have a group of about 40 Irish fruit pickers hit the town, and I would hate to find myself next to that family for even a second.
However there are two large Gypsy families living in the town, and I get on rather well with them, even if the youngest generation are a bit of a handful, they always treat me with respect, because I have always treated their grandfathers with respect.
2007-08-20 20:30:32 · answer #2 · answered by DAVID C 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK, I'm not about to stereotype anyone, but I can tell you about my experiences. I worked in a movie theatre, it was known that this family of gypsies would enter a business with like7 to 10 family members, and they would lean all over the counter, and generally try to distract the clerk, especially if there was only one, and try to get to the cash register. Several of my friends who worked in a convenience store and a video store had encountered this. Well, the family walks in the theatre I work in, and sure enough they lean all over the counter, move in close to the cash register, and try to distract me. I wasn't going to fall for that, and I never left the register. After a while they left, they never bought a ticket for a movie. So if your hypothetical gypsy is the same as the family that was notorious in my town, then no.
2007-08-20 10:45:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm pretty sure that what makes a gypsy a gypsy in the general sense, is that they don't have houses. So you'd never have a gypsy as a neighbor, unless you were a gypsy... or a nomad... or a circus freak.. you get my point.
2007-08-20 10:35:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't mind having a gypsy neighbor, as long as they weren't the thieves or shysters they're stereotyped to be.
2007-08-20 10:48:04 · answer #5 · answered by Subconsciousless 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ones I knew preferred to be called Roma or Rom.
They were very gentle, interesting people.
2007-08-20 10:35:44 · answer #6 · answered by Sunny 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why wouldn't I? People are entitled to their own lives and beliefs.
2007-08-20 10:33:05 · answer #7 · answered by Amanda 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if her name was Stevie Nicks.
2007-08-20 10:45:06 · answer #8 · answered by your_dear_old_mother 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure. Is there some reason why I wouldn't?
2007-08-20 10:34:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't care as long as they didn't bother me.
2007-08-20 10:32:44 · answer #10 · answered by *Shayla* 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋