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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTo quote Gunther Toody from "Car 54 Where Are You?"
OoohOooh!!
(You fellow oldsters will get it....)
Please allow me to preface this by saying that sometimes you can look at reading DU as though youre in school, and then you go out in the real world and take your final exam with real people.
Im off today, Thursday, because my schedule became very weird due to the pandemic. So Im doing some shopping here in New Jersey and I attend a liquor store, because Ive been drinking slightly more than usual but not too excessively of course, and Im walking back to my car with my mask on and a guy mutters something as I walk past. The only word I could make out Was fucking so I stopped in my tracks and said Excuse me?. He stopped and said Just talking about your mask. Real arrogant motherfucker -gonna stare me down
The path I was going to take at that instant came to me within two seconds. I said to him, You know, youre the kind of guy who would leave his lights on during the blackout in World War II because aint nobody gonna tell you how to act in your own home, you would forge ration coupons, and of course you would be exempted from military service because you have bone spurs like your buddy in the White House.
He stood there stunned. I said Dont have an answer for me? You should think before you speak to strangers as your mother undoubtedly told you to do. And you know what, We are going to take America back from you and your kind very shortly.
I got my car and drove away.
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Someone posted that paragraph a few days ago and it stuck in my brain. I wasnt afraid of this nincompoop because besides the fact that I can handle myself, I was holding a bottle of Tanqueray Gin in my hand: in NJ they try not to give you plastic bags unless you need them, and I was in no good mood for several reasons. Anyway he aint telling that story unless he decides to embellish.
Victory for the oppressed.
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,777 posts)Ooooh,ooooh! Nailed it.
leftieNanner
(15,149 posts)I truly do not understand this whole mask=tyranny thing. Good for you, giving him comparable examples.
And Yay for the Tanqueray! It has been a summer staple for us. We just bought a bottle of Freeland Gin out of Portland, OR. Very different from Tanqueray - more of a sippin' gin over ice with a twist. Recommended for the next purchase.
Gunther Toody!
PCIntern
(25,583 posts)What do I have to lose??
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)leftieNanner
(15,149 posts)Horrible, frightening, hideous, disgusting.
But epic.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)gademocrat7
(10,669 posts)Loved Toody and Muldune.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)"I work with Covid-19 patients at the hospital, and just in case one of them gave it to me today, I don't want to pass it on to anyone else, including you."
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)Alacritous Crier
(3,818 posts)kimbutgar
(21,188 posts)And I bet it felt so good to smack him back verbally.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,857 posts)And I thought "Car 54" was hilarious! I only saw the reruns, but it probably included every episode eventually.
Charlotte Rae as "Sylvia Schnauser" was hilarious on that show too! So many of them were funny characters (and good actors), but I think her overly dramatic character was the most surprisingly funny for me! (I'd previously only seen her as a stuffy and mostly serious "Mrs. Garrett" in the 70's and 80's.)
panader0
(25,816 posts)The mask issue is right along part lines. You can tell the D's from the R's.
JHB
(37,161 posts)Those of us 15-20 years younger have our own iconic "Oooh! Oooh! go-to.
TNNurse
(6,929 posts)PCIntern
(25,583 posts)😄
spanone
(135,874 posts)P.S. BRAVO