Posted on 10/21/2011 5:29:02 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady
I met a typical Democrat on the bus last night. Here’s a little context: I live and work in Los Angeles and am a woman in my mid-40s. I’m about as attractive as a woman in her mid-40s can be when she cuts her own hair and needs to lose about 10lbs. In other words, I’m okay enough. I wear skirts and make-up. But I’d had a long day, so I doubt I was in top form.
I got on the crowded bus downtown, and a heavy-set black man in his 60s offered me the seat next to him. (No, he’s not the person I’m about to describe. He was a bystander.) I sat down gratefully and we began to chat. He’d been a custodian for years, in schools and colleges, and we talked about kids-these-days and the state of the economy. Well, he did most of the talking. But that was okay; I was tired.
Soon, I became aware that an elderly white man in thick, dark glasses was paying attention to our conversation. He entered into it and the two men began to discuss the politicians whom they held responsible for society’s decay. Of course, they were both ardent liberals, but the white fellow was far more voluble on the “idiocy” and “stupidity” of men like Reagan, Bush, Schwarzenegger, etc. Oh, they were the stupidest creatures alive, he stated smugly. The other fellow did not disagree. Soon his stop came and he left us with a pleasant goodbye.
The minute he was out of sight, the old white man’s smile turned to a faint sneer. “That type always lives in the past,” he told me with assurance. Not he, however. He lived in the present. He always had something going on. He was in the entertainment business! Yes! He had deals in the works right now. He had money in his wallet right now. Lots of it. (I cautioned him about announcing this on a public bus in L.A., and he chuckled but continued.)
After establishing himself as a man of means and vision, he began hitting on me. He was funny, he told me. To prove it, he launched into a stream of dirty jokes. Then he tried to give me his telephone number. Have I mentioned he was 40 years older than me, and I am no spring chicken myself? But a woman needs a man, he informed me, and if I didn’t have one, that was a shame, a real shame. Did I like other woman? No? Well then, take my phone number, come on, take it.
He told me a few more dirty jokes and I soon noticed that a pretty little Latina teenager had taken the seat next to me and was listening to his blandishments with cringing embarrassment. I pointed out that she was very young and probably shouldn’t hear such things, but he assured me that teens today knew more about sex than I did. Then he turned to her and started in on her, letting her know that he found her, too, sufficiently attractive to warrant the blessing of his notice. He assured us both that he was very interested in sex. And money. And he had lots of money.
He told a few more jokes, tried to press his phone number on me, and finally gave up when his stop came (to the immense relief of the young girl next to me, and myself.) After he left, I mused: that is a typical liberal male. Chauvinistic, arrogant, obsessed with sex, pushy, and possessing a tendency to vastly overrate his own intelligence, wit, and appeal. When I got home, I took a bath.
What, am I going to shoot an old man for telling dirty jokes? (Although I guess if you shoot one, the others will stop...;^)
An armed society creates a polite society. Most times you just have to suggest you are carring. It would have help protect the young lady.
LOL!! I actually did have dinner with Dabney Coleman once a few years ago. He leans to the right, and was far more gentlemanly. He went to VMI, and we talked about that. He seemed a nice fellow.
Post his phone number on Craigs list in an ad:
“Slave looking for a man he can call master”
That should make his life interesting...
He was in his 80s. He wasn’t threatening, he was simply very unappealing, and very unaware of it. I told the story not to illustrate any need for guns on buses, but to describe a mindset that seems peculiar to liberals: obsession with sex, sneering wit, and arrogance. These aren’t shooting offenses, just personality traits that seem to vote consistently.
It wasa probably hillary clintoon in drag.
ML/NJ
Barack 0bama in 30 years, in other words... :)
Well, he was quite old and semi-blind, I think, so he couldn’t drive. He said he “didn’t like” taking cabs. Presumably his chauffer was busy occupying City Hall or something... (it’s so hard to get good help these days...)
"Stop bragging already."
I think there’s definitely a lot of asking the reader about how they would have handled it. I would throw out the blanket-statement that liberals tend to be much more in-you-face and will interject themselves into a conversation or attempt to justify their beliefs out loud more so than a conservative. Your anecdotal experience speaks to this, as you, a presumably staunch conservative (you do have a FreeRepublic.com account!) held your tongue while our octogenarian protagonist invited himself to remove all doubt of his idiocy.
Remember, only 21% of the people identify themselves as liberal (a stat I heard just this week during a radio show segment about the OWS crowd). That leaves a whole lotta people who aren’t.
This 79% would have been readily identifiable on the bus as their cringing faces would have matched your fellow young co-rider.
that's because a liberal derives his self worth from the beliefs he espouses,
and a conservative, generally, derives his self worth from his relationship with his Creator
or, sadly, with his own merit or accomplishments.
The sneering is what liberals think to be Humor.The Evangelical dude tripped on a curb and fell with his face in a pile of dog excrement! (snorting laugh track).
Only 21%? I think there is a whole lot of liberal liars who don’t want us to know they are liberal. I figure about 10% more.
I would agree with that.
Wait until you’re in your mid-sixties (it comes quicker than you think), are minding your own business, and are “hit on” by good ol’ boys at the local fast food place. Then when you ignore them after having spoken to them as far as courtesy dictates, they proceed to make insulting remarks. (I wear a wedding ring, and rarely go places without my husband, so don’t have this problem often.)
Truth is, these guys apparently watch a lot of tv, and are thinking that all women are like those they see on the screen - and they like the heroes. . when, in reality, they’re fat loudmouths. Now, I’m not skinny myself, so it’s neither here nor there with me. If I were single at this point, I wouldn’t be looking for another man (have had the same one for 46 years), and certainly not for a fat loudmouth mama’s boy who’s looking for a “needy” rich “old lady” to bankroll him for his cheeseburgers and super fries at Mickey D’s.
They used to just fade away.
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