My aunt and her friend drove me out to Hell's Canyon last weekend, but the freaking road was closed. So, we didn't get to see the deepest canyon in the country. Many people think the Grand Canyon is the deepest, but that is simply not so. While being much wider than Hell's Canyon, it's 3,000 feet lower at its deepest point.
Even though we didn't get to see it, it was nice to spend some time with Julie and Laura. The highlight of the trip was listening to Delerium's Semantic Spaces while going over the Blue Mountains. The chants and rhythm of that strange music echoed the atmosphere of those mountains perfectly. Gothic is how my aunt describes it.
On the way back, we got stuck in some horrible traffic. I commented that someone in another car looked like a "fat chink". My aunt informed me that chink is a disparaging word for a Chinese person, which I didn't know. I felt bad for saying it. There was a long, uncomfortable silence after that. Which one of my dumb friends didn’t mention it was a slur?
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