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Aristus

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Fri Jul 4, 2025, 07:30 PM Jul 4

There's a nice guy in my neighborhood who waves and says 'hi' to me when he sees me, and I think he's a Trumpster. [View all]

He's a broad-shouldered, middle-aged white guy with a graying beard. So am I.

I think he's the groundkeeper at the Christian high school two blocks away from my house. During the summers and on weekends, I walk the track out behind the school to get a measured walk in (three and a half miles is my usual). I've been walking the track there for nearly twenty years. Over the last year, I've run in to the guy a couple of times. He'll be working, and I'll be doing my laps. Sometimes, when I come around to where he's working, he'll say 'hi' and ask me how many laps I've got left. He always smiles and is very pleasant.

He was just leaving the school in his huge black pickup truck today when he spotted me on my way to the track. He stuck his arm out of his window, waved at me, and asked "At it again?" "Yep", I replied, waved, and walked on.

He sure looks like a stereotypical Trumpster (so do I, for that matter), and as an employee of a Christian evangelical private school, if he's not a Trumpster, I will be very much surprised.

I wonder how friendly he would be with me if he knew how much I despised Trump, the evangelical church, and hell, big black pickup trucks.

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