here_is_to_hope (1000+ posts) Fri Nov-14-08 06:50 PM
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I had my first gun nut freeptard encounter today...
And yes, I took a shower afterwards.
I repair guitars and stringed instruments occasionally for a local store. I was working on rush job when a guy walks in and starts talking to the owner of the store. Talk turned to business and the guy starts blathering about "gun and ammunition sales are through the roof because that "n****r is in the Whitehouse and that means all of our guns are going to be taken and we cant buy ammo and the taxes are going up!"
After picking my jaw up off the floor...
I started laughing, like rolling around on the floor laughing, shouting, "OMG! OH NOES!! OH SHIT!!!11!!
I seriously thought it was funny.
Then he started in on me..."n****r lover, did you vote for him?"
I did the 10 yard dash in 0.3 seconds...
Anyway, he is gonna kill me with all his guns and stuff, he promised.
He left the store, I probably wont be doing any work there again.
Two hours later I get a phone call from the cops.
Wanted my side of the story.
They left a voicemail.
I wont call them back.
I find it funny that someone can threaten me with a gun one minute and then call the cops the next.
I never threatened him except with facts and perhaps some anger.
I am sick of the hate after all.
Anyway, just a note.
They are out there.
After picking my jaw up off the floor...
I started laughing, like rolling around on the floor laughing, shouting, "OMG! OH NOES!! OH SHIT!!!11!!
I seriously thought it was funny.
Then he started in on me..."n****r lover, did you vote for him?"
I did the 10 yard dash in 0.3 seconds...
Anyway, he is gonna kill me with all his guns and stuff, he promised.
He left the store, I probably wont be doing any work there again.
Two hours later I get a phone call from the cops.
Wanted my side of the story.
They left a voicemail.
I wont call them back.
I find it funny that someone can threaten me with a gun one minute and then call the cops the next.
I never threatened him except with facts and perhaps some anger.
I am a 60s hippy that has spent a lifetime smoking weed and playing guitar.
Learned how to tune and fix one so have managed to pick up some extra weed money on the side.
I was in this local joint (had a few already of the other kind) when this dude walks in.
He mentions to the owner that he is thinking of purchasing a gun before the libs try to enact another ban.
I lost it man and ran up to him and gots in his face screaming that he was a racist thug that didn`t deserve to live.
The owner of the shop told me to leave but I kept on screaming that him and all like him were the reason my life was ****ed up and that they should all die.
Finally he called the police to remove me so I figured that with the amount of weed I had on me I better get out of there.
They are looking for me and have my phone number,do you think that this story will convince them that I was innocent?
Going out to smoke some more dope.
I've yet to see guns and guitars in the same store outside of a pawn shop. And frankly, I've yet to run into ANYONE on the right who gloated about 2000 or 2004 publicly. OTOH, I've run into PLENTY of people in the last couple of weeks who don't hesitate to gloat over the Obummer's win.
Case in point--the little sports bar I frequent has a nice enough bartender (woman) there. She asked me if I'd heard about how when W first met Obama and how he used hand sanitizer, like it's somehow an affront. I mentioned that it's normal practice for people who have lots of public contact to use it on a regular basis to keep from getting sick, and that the whole thing was overblown.
I got the eye roll. Later, she was talking to another patron about how she was (and apparently, he too) was so geeked up about going to see "W". This movie has been out for over a month and they're just now going out to see it? Whatevs.
WHY DO THEY MAKE THIS CRAP UP? No one actually believes it.
WHY DO THEY MAKE THIS CRAP UP? No one actually believes it.
Having stood up against "power" back in the day, and I mean real, deadly , power, it gives you cold sweats and there's damned little bravado. If you come away uninjured, you are releaved, and think long and hard before going it again.
Sparky, did you say that you were going to give her tip to someone else--"redistributing her wealth," so to speak?
Sparky, did you say that you were going to give her tip to someone else--"redistributing her wealth," so to speak?
It's good for one cause I want to use it. :-) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/tucker13/special/79477e3a.gif)