Damn "Slant Eye"

My father loved to "borrow" money... from banks, family members, whoever he could get money from. He also liked to write checks to pay suppliers for merchandise for the family business. He looked at bounced check charges as cheaper than the interest on paying for a loan, so that happened a lot. Back in his day the fee was only $10 and he'd rather pay that a few times than actually have the supplier get paid. It was a short term loan... why not?

Often he would get letters in the mail from banks offering to loan him money and he would go for it. Sometimes they would get paid back... sometimes not.

One time he received a reject from a bank. It was a standard form letter denial. At the end of the letter it was signed "Regrettably, Lee Reynolds" or something like that. The only part I remember seeing is the "Lee" part. My father, getting mad reading the letter and seeing the name "Lee" immediately scribbled on the letter:

"Go to hell, Slant Eye!!"

And instructed me to put it in an envelope and mail it back to the bank.

My father, seeing the name "Lee," immediately assumed it was an Asian who wrote the letter and lashed out in his typical Sheldon fashion... with a racist slur.