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.
I think all states are a little like that. In Colorado where I grew up, you have the front range cities which are very urban and Western in culture. Denver and Colorado Springs, L.A., Phoenix, etc are all more alike than they’re different. Then you have the mountain towns where the people are an extremely independant lot. Finally, you have the plains, where life isn’t much different than Kansas or Nebraska.
Texas is like that only more so. You have Deep East Texas which is culturally identical to Louisana, East Texas which is Southern, West Texas where everyone out of state gets their cowboy Texas stereotype, the hill country which is somewhat Western in the California sense...areas that are Hispanic in culture, Mexican in Culture (not the same thing) etc.
Of course we’re huge to a point that out of staters really can’t comprehend unless they spend some time here. My favorite tidbit that illustrates the size of Texas is: If you’re in Amarillo, you’re closer to the capitol cities of 5, count’em 5 other states than you are to Austin.
Does the phrase “Amber Lamps” ring a bell? LOL
Amber Lamps, Noun. As in, Please call an Amber Lamps.
Classic...
Freepin’ funny!
Be still my heart.
I remember the first time I started looking at electon maps after the Bush-Gore election (I was in High School). I was able to find some of the county by county maps. Even in the way people vote, the difference in culture between say southern Missouri and northern Arkansas is non existance. However, Missouri is a swing state because of St Louis and Kansas City.
I remember reading something James Carville said about PA. On one side you have Philly, the other side Pittsburgh..then in the middle you have Alabama ! lol
I suspect that you could have done a credible imitation of Ann Coulter if he had seriously annoyed you.
Sounds like just another day in LA.
Come to Jersey, our jerks are readily identifiable here, they don’t sneak up on you like that.
; - )
You should have stood up real fast and yelled “HE TOUCHED ME> PERVERT KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOUR SELF” then sprayed him with mace and kicked him in the groin.
And that is why I dont ride mass transit.....buses are a cross between drunktanks and public bathrooms.
I’m not going to assault an 80-year old man for being irritating, and then lie about it. I hope you wouldn’t really either.
Nah.....I wouldnt...but it sure would be funny....
What a jerk. Sadly the world has way too many people like him.
LOL
What was your first clue?
This was me, you know.
When I got home, I took a bath.
I know. I watched. Nice decor you've chosen, by the way.
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