So I'm walking out of the library at the same time as another card carrying citizen.
He says hi.
I say hi.
And he says, and I shit you not, "Well, things aren't too good. They better get it together up there in New York, y'know. If they let those people build a mosque at Ground Zero. Well, that's not right. It's not right. They do it all the time. No, it's happened before. When Spain won a war, they built a mosque there too. And other places. But if they let it happen, well, it's just gonna go down real quick in this country . . . ." On and on.
I nod but don't acknowledge his apparent craziness. Unlock the door, start the ignition and when he finally took a breath, I let out an "Uh huh" and throw it in reverse.
Then I was mad at myself for playing the "nice girl" and tolerating his bullshit by showing him more consideration than he was showing me.
What I wanted to say was, "Really, dude? I've never met you before and the very second I say hi, you go off on a political tangent that I may or may not care about? How's about shut the fuck up? How about that, dude?"
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I find it interesting that this post brought back your "serial killer trunk set" under "you might also like."
There's a quite a few personalities posting here so they converge on occasion, for your reading pleasure.
Wow. I think your "crazy magnet" is even stronger than mine.
I always like to up the ante and say even crazier shit like "we should round them all up and put them in work camps" and see if they agree with me. They always do.
I think you were wise to keep walkin'. People who give unsolicited opinions to people they don't know give me the creeps.
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