Parked by a someone with a McCain/Palin sticker at the 7/11.

[RB TexLa]

She saw my sticker and said "Oh, your an Obama voter." I said nothing. She said "hey, hey," and tugged at my jacket. I said nothing. She then mumbled something I couldn't hear and got in her car and left. When I got back to the car, my brother asked what I had said to her. I just said "you walk past a pile dog shit on the sidewalk you don't stop and talk to it."

[CreekDog]

1. My 7-11 has stacks of McCain coffee cups all over the store

still. :rofl:

[madokie]

2. and you try your damnedest to not step in it either

I just laugh at the idiots when I see a mcpalin bumper sticker on their vehicle.

[proud2BlibKansan]

32. My boss called McCain her "man" before the election

I have a hard time talking to her and keeping a straight face.

[valerief]

3. LOL!!!! Good one!

:rofl:

[Clintonista2]

24. Forgive me but how is calling a 60 year old woman a piece of shit a "good one"?

Sheesh, goes to show that some on the left are just as nasty as those on the right.

[valerief]

36. Jeepers _reepers! Thank you for your concern. nt

[Clintonista2]

37. concerned? No

A little disgusted though.

[Sanity Claws]

4. Is that the best way you know of convincing someone?

I don't think insulting people helps the cause. If anything, it hardens them in their position.

[RB TexLa]

5. I couldn't care about her position. I didn't say a word to her, no insult.

[Sanity Claws]

6. My apology

I reread your message.
What you said to your brother about the pile of dogshit -- I thought you had said it to the woman. I agree ignoring her is a good way of handling a potentially bad situation.

[stuntcat]

7. you were good..

I'm afraid I would have snapped when she touched my jacket though x(

[silverojo]

13. That's a physical threat, grabbing someone's jacket

I'd have called the cops on her, and let the bitch deal with the legal hassles. :rofl:

[RB TexLa]

14. I've never called the police over anything, and don't foresee ever doing so.

[HillbillyBob]

8. I am glad RBolen did not say anything. I may have, but more

likely would have done the same. After 30 years of the BS from them I am quite hardened in my opinions. They done little good, spread hate and distasteful stuff, outright lies, theft of our freedoms, mismanagement and theft of epic magnitude and use gays as fodder to drum up idiot voters. Being out gay for 27 yrs I am quite fed up, not even angry anymore, just disgusted and about [] far from smacking em in the knees with my cane.
I have a vets for Obama sticker on the truck with the I Voted sticker on top of that.

[pitohui]

9. she tugged your jacket, crap! isn't that really assault?

i hate it when people i don't know try to touch on me and if it's some creepy mccain/palin freak i don't know what i would say

i guess i would do the same as you, i would walk off w.out saying a word, but i'd probably blame myself all day for not having a witty insult

[RB TexLa]

10. She was probably in her 60's, unless she had a weapon I wasn't worried about assault.

[jberryhill]

11. In most states, yes, that would be a form of battery

Typically "assault" refers to threatening behavior. Unauthorized physical contact is battery.

[Quantess]

17. are you sure about that?

I always thought that any unauthorized touch is simple assault, and that battery is aggressive physical contact.

[jberryhill]

20. What state do you live in?

If we are talking about state criminal law, YMMV.

At common law the civil tort of assault is generally:

"acting intentionally and voluntarily causing the reasonable apprehension of an immediate harmful or offensive contact"

while battery is generally:

"intentionally (or, in Australia, negligently) and voluntarily bringing about an unconsented harmful or offensive contact with a person or to something closely associated with them (e.g. a hat, a purse). Unlike assault, battery involves an actual contact."

You'll note that Wikipedia has entries for both the criminal and civil varieties, but at the end of the day if we are talking about a crime, then your state criminal code is the definition that matters.

[NYC_SKP]

12. What do you think she wanted to say? Maybe it was something nice... or...

maybe it wasn't even her car.

Maybe she has had a change of heart, or maybe never supported McCain, we are never going to know.

You missed an opportunity.

I wish you'd have engaged her in a conversation, that's what I think would have been better.

...

The dog shit thing, I don't even get it, sounds kinda mean and more the kind of thing a Palin supporter would think or say.

[Chulanowa]

15. I agree

The woman might have been just a little rude with the jacket-tugging, but I think that if she were going to go for the whole frothing nutjob aspect of the typical Republican, she would have done so without trying to get his attention first. I think it would have been better to see what she had to say, then if she went batshit, then laugh in her face and walk off.

And yeah, calling the woman dogshit just because of her bumper sticker is pretty low. Basically he's calling my grandparents dogshit there, and while I might not agree with their politics, I'm sure not going to tolerate someone talking like that about them :shrug:

[NYC_SKP]

19. in fairness to the OP...

the dogshit comment was made in the car to the OP's passenger, not to the woman.

but the whole thing is just negativity and disappointing...

[mondo joe]

16. You're offended by "y'all" and by fist bumps, but you think it's okay to ignore people

trying to speak to you and refer to them as shit?

Nice.

[Dis Pater]

18. there isn't a red America, or a blue America, there is the United States of America

[codjh9]

21. Yeah, it's all I can do to say 'Hey, McPuke LOST! Bwahahahahaha' when I see 'em.

[Clintonista2]

22. Thanks for sharing

you sure you werent the one with the mccain/palin sticker?

[RB TexLa]

23. Yes, I'm sure.

[Lex]

25. Very Obama-esque of you.

No, wait. More like McCain actually.

[libnnc]

27. he would have decked her

had she honked at him

[scarletwoman]

33. Heh...

:rofl:

I see I'm not the only one who remembers that lovely tale.

I think "misanthrope" is the correct descriptor.

sw

[proud2BlibKansan]

34. McCain would have called her a cunt

and then got in his car and hugged his little stuffed monkey.

[dysfunctional press]

26. wow. you sound like such a LOVELY person.

:eyes:

why did you assume the bumper sticker and the car were hers? :shrug:

what an asshole attitude to have. even moreso if you're proud of it.

[RB TexLa]

28. Because I saw her open the door and get out of it after driving it.

[dysfunctional press]

29. it could be her husband's car and/or sticker...she could have borrowed the car from someone...

better to make snap judgments and treat other people like shit tho, huh? :shrug:

you're a real piece of work. :eyes:

and you seem to revel in proving it over and over.

[RB TexLa]

30. I said nothing to her, there was no "treating"

[dysfunctional press]

31. ignoring someone completely is being rude and un-civil...

i.e.- treating someone like shit.

[Bucky]

35. The proper response: "Madam, my name isn't 'Hey HEy', it's Hussein."

"HeyHEY is that other DUer. We don't all look alike, you know."