https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214132454634-5789 (393 posts)
So, at Kroger's this morning...
I'm wearing my RIDIN ' WITH BIDEN 2020 Tee, and the store wasn't quite open, and this camoed 60 YO comes up and told me that I was 'One of them gawd damn communists that back Sleepy Joe'. I didn't say a word, and the longer we stood there, the more angry he got, demanding that Biden's kid be jailed, and that we were all communists and that Biden was a pedophile and now 'muriKKKa was nothing more than another Viet Nam, ...on and on. The Store finally (after about 5 minutes) opened and he went in, no mask of course and was down at the meat counter screaming that same ignorance to the meat counter employee. I never said a word, got my groceries and while I was packing up the car, out he comes, STILL RAGING! Lotsa MAGAt anger these days...
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I have to rate this zero bong hits
There was no conversion, no cheering onlookers, no "witty retorts"
Traildogbob (1,877 posts)
51. You wanna avoid that crap?
My daughter is an ICU nurse. On her way home after 12 hour shifts she has to stop to get groceries. When in her scrubs people move quickly away. So get a set of scrubs for shopping. Smear some green slimy stuff over the front, wear a mask and put the same green on it. Nobody will get within 50 feet of you. And cough while you shop.
I wear my “Shut The F**K up Donnie” mask, with my Navy Special Forces ball cap with steel toed Heavy boots. Right in the middle of bubbaville and never get a second look. Saw a shirt here at DU that said, “This sucker (veteran) will not vote for this loser (picture of trump). Vets against Trump. I wanna get that “top”. Gimme that “top”. I need that “top”.
Want to thank you all here that reinforce the do not entice them into conflict. You help talk me down. My anger is teetering on the edge, and I really do not want my gubment paid training to get me in “not-so-good” trouble. Try the scrubs deterrence.
1. As a nurse, people don't avoid me when I am in scrubs-In fact, they often approach and ask questions.
2. If she is working in an ICU, wearing scrubs home, and stopping at a store, that is a HUGE infection control issue.
3. What the hell is Navy Special Forces
4. I am sure you are a regular badass, you should let that anger free
nmgaucho (527 posts)
19. Exactly this
I'm 6'3" 250 lbs and athletic so of course he wouldnt have said any of those things to me. I would have replied similarly but with even a harsher response
Why am I reminded of the Brad Paisley Song "online."
vlyons (7,274 posts)
8. Always remember -- Sticks and stones may break your bones,
but words will never hurt you. You do not exist with his labels for you. His labels are merely projections of his very own mind.
My take on such angry assholes is that they are angry at life, because life is not fair. It's not fair (from his viewpoint) that black people get good-paying jobs, rather than pick cotton on a plantation somewhere. It's not fair that women want to go to college and have men's careers, rather than stay home to clean house and change diapers. It's not fair that Jews and Mexicans can move into their neighborhood.
Unfortunately, no one has ever told such assholes the 4 true facts of life, the 1st one of which is "there is suffering." Welcome to samsara!
Thank-you for keeping you cool and not letting that asshole contaminate your mind with his angry words.
Huh?
as to the last line....the only ones that think a world without suffering can be achieved are the DUmmies and
If a DUmmie actually sprouted this nonsense at me, I'd just say Momento Mori
Act_of_Reparation (7,826 posts)
41. Bullshit.
Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can get you killed.
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We got a tough guy over here!
I like this exchange:
Star Member rzemanfl (26,954 posts)
18. Why is it everything happens to you?
Yesterday your neighbor calls the cops. Today you meet a crazed MAGAT at Kroger....
Maybe you should hire a bodyguard.
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Response to rzemanfl (Reply #18)Fri Sep 25, 2020, 10:05 AM
634-5789 (393 posts)
20. It's no mystery, but I'm not going into details here.
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Response to 634-5789 (Reply #20)Fri Sep 25, 2020, 10:42 AM
Star Member rzemanfl (26,954 posts)
29. I am reminded of a joke.
A poor, unfortunate peasant undergoes a series of calamities and misfortunes. Finally, when locusts eat his crops and his family faces starvation, he looks to the sky and says, "Why me God, why me?"
A voice booms down from the heavens, "I dunno, there's just something about you that pisses me off."
HAHAHAHA
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Response to rzemanfl (Reply #29)Fri Sep 25, 2020, 10:54 AM
634-5789 (393 posts)
33. Nice!
There's nothing i could do about today's grocery store incident, but I'm one of 2 liberals here on the cul de sac of 34 houses, I write a LOT of checks to progressive causes, and wear buttons, hats, etc. and that seems tor really piss off some of these 'good christians' around here. And I'm the 2nd oldest people here, and that also seems to piss these idiots off...don't know why, but it does.The idiot yesterday was the same one that stuck a Bible in my mailbox with highlighted passages about homosexuality being wrong. after I flew
a rainbow flag when Congress passed that equality ruling.....I'm straight, been married for 45 years, and I think...THINK she may have a screw loose.... not really sure, but she hates me and the wife.
This DUmmie thinks that EVERYONE else is the crazy one...