I ordered a couple of items off of Amazon and they came today but in 2 different deliveries.

The first delivery driver came just as I was taking Jasmine outside.  She was barking at him as he walked up, but I told the driver that she wasn’t a threat and he was more or less ok with her.  He may have been a bit fearful, but it was a rational fear.  That’s not the metric for my comparison because Jasmine wasn’t outside with me when the second delivery arrived.

My metric is the over-all interaction.  The first driver handed me the package and was over-all relaxed, even though there was a big dog barking at him.  The second driver would not hand me the package.  He claimed that he had to take a picture of the package on the property.

What struck me at the time was the different vibe I got off of each of them.  I could tell by his accent that driver 1 was from India, or maybe Pakistan.  Driver 2 didn’t have a noticeable accent but he appeared Arabian and had a thick beard.

They were both about the same shade of brown — although driver 1 was a bit darker than driver 2 — so it wasn’t that driver 2 was a colored person  that “triggered me”.  There was just something about driver 1 that felt more… American.