Cyrano: Walking away from a possibly mentally disturbed person

[Ralph Wiggum]

Star Member Cyrano (13,904 posts)


Walking away from a possibly mentally disturbed person.
Early yesterday morning, I was in the supermarket and, while passing someone I know who works there, he asked me if I'd mailed in my ballot yet. I told him that I had.

There was a man with a shopping cart a bit behind me whom I hadn't noticed, and he'd overheard that short exchange. Unexpectedly, he said something like, "You people that mail in your ballots are probably liberals." I was dumbstruck. And so was the employee with whom I'd been speaking. I should explain that this guy behind me was a man who may have been in his late 60's or so, and who was trying to puff up his chest as much as possible.

Taking a deep breath, I said something like, "Why would you think that?"

His answer was: "Because most of you vote by mail."

I glanced at my employee friend and both of us were thinking the same thing. "Does this nut have a gun?"

Let me hold up on this encounter for a moment and ask what you would have done. Insult him? Tell him he was a MAGA imbecile? Intentionally slam your cart into his looking for an ugly confrontation?

Both the employee and myself made the same decision. We turned our backs and walked away from him.

There was no further encounter with this nut. But I spent the rest of the day thinking that I should have pushed it further. An action that may not have ended well for anyone. MAGAs have become a disease as dangerous as Covid, or perhaps even as dangerous as a cancer on America.

Would you have walked away?

 

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[DUmpDiver]

All of that typing for a bouncy without a bouncy ending?

[jukin]

How does a DUmmy walk away from the DUmmy in the mirror?

[RuralNc]

Wednesdays (15,498 posts)

8. Unusual, talking to an acquaintence in the grocery store about a ballot.

Ruh roh. A Mutt is casting doubt..

Cyrano (13,906 posts)

14. An employee I've known for years. Unusual???

Ummm yeah. Because you idiots act like complete random strangers you run into on an hourly basis just have to have a conversation with you about whatever the hot topic of the day is.

[FunkyZero]

I was gonna bring this one over but seemed like a dud, no clapping or customers agreeing with him at the end.

and again with the grocery store..  err... I mean I mean "Supermarket".

must be either a DUmmie thing or a regional thing. I've never known a single person in real life to refer to the grocery store as "the market" or "supermarket".
Is this a west coast thing or something?
And why are all of their encounters at the "supermarket" ?  Like, 95% of them.

[DUmpDiver]

I've never known a single person in real life to refer to the grocery store as "the market" or "supermarket".

People do use the term supermarket in WA state.

[Ralph Wiggum]

I was gonna bring this one over but seemed like a dud, no clapping or customers agreeing with him at the end.

and again with the grocery store..  err... I mean I mean "Supermarket".

must be either a DUmmie thing or a regional thing. I've never known a single person in real life to refer to the grocery store as "the market" or "supermarket".
Is this a west coast thing or something?
And why are all of their encounters at the "supermarket" ?  Like, 95% of them.

There also seem to be a prevalence of bouncy tales that take place at doctor's offices and oil change places.

Regarding this "supermarket" thing. While I've visited almost every part of this country, I've lived all my 52 years in different places in the Central Time Zone. Everyone I know calls it by the store's specific name, such as "Honey, I'm going to the Albertson's".