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.
You have got to be kidding me!!
That sounds like something from "Idiocracy."
To bad you were tired. Would of been fun getting them all riled up
Two words. Pepper spray.
Four words: "I loved Ronald Reagan".
You should have messed with him and told him you were found him attractive and were ready to elope with him until he opened his mouth and revealed his “sissy” liberal politics.
You should have taken his phone nmuber and given it to the LAPD.
Good grief. I think I read something about this some time back. Does it feature that actor who played Richie Valens' older brother in La Bamba?
You should have given him the number to the local police precinct.
“I live and work in Los Angeles”
Ouch. There are like 5 conservatives there. No deer hunting either. Less than 5 country stations between the 93 and 100 on the FM dial. I wouldn’t make it there. You have to be tough ! I salute you !
Only during the week that their company does it's annual RideShare survey demanded by the SCAQMD...:^)
*rolling eyes*
You're making L.A. sound very attractive. No country is good country.
Here in Dallas, we have both kinds of music: Country AND Western.
Weren’t you carrying your frozen armadillo for just such an occasion?
You handled it with a lot of class, like the perfect lady that you are. You did the right thing.
I, the imperfect barely-lady, would have taken the lower road and given him a rejection to make him feel like the world’s smallest man... in more than one way.
Shoulda taken his phone number and posted it here.......I would have fun with that.
We do have the Edge 102. Neither country nor western is really music btw.
I listen to The Ticket, so I wouldn’t know about music stations here.
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