Posted on 03/24/2004 10:17:30 AM PST by hilaryrhymeswithrich
Last Friday night I had a chance to head into the big city (Atlanta) for a little culture. I have three young children at home and it was a rare opportunity for me to venture out of Suburbia.....
My mini van, besides being (yuck!) a mini van and totally depressing to drive to a grownup affair, is not city friendly. Because I have always been a rather confrontational kind of gal, it is covered in conservative bumper stickers, none of which are subtle. Knowing that we were headed to a part of town that embraces all that is hippy and socialist, I suggested to my friend that she drive us there in her cute and uncomplicated SUV, it’s only adornment, a benign and simple Bush/Cheney ’04 bumper sticker.
We arrived in Virginia Highlands a few hours before our show to grab a bite to eat without a happy meal toy or punctuated by updates from the informers (as in, “Mom, Tim keeps kicking me” or “Mom, Tess will not stop LOOKING at me!) As we cruised a quiet street looking for parking, a man on a Harley rode up next to us and gestured for us to roll down our window. Being the trusting and helpful motherly types that we are, we complied and leaned over to help the man with what we assumed was a simple question.
“Do you know that the tax cut Bush pushed through took our money out of our Social Security and gave it to fat cat corporations? Did you know…” and he screamed statistics at us for a few minutes.
We were perplexed. What the hell was going on here? Is he a nutcase? Why is he shouting at us? Does he somehow know that I am a member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy??? And then it hit us……the Bush bumper sticker on the back of the car.
I answered a few of his concerns as best I could. “My husband IS corporate America. That’s how we get paid! I can spend my money better than the government can!”
He responded with a nonsensical, “I served in Vietnam!” I suppose that was suppose to shame us into silence. Instead I shouted, “So what! My stepdad was in Vietnam….what’s your point???”
My friend and I looked at each other. Should we really get into this argument? Should I yell back, "Hey man (speaking in hippy so that he could be sure to understand me) I hope corporate America gets stinking rich! My husband gets his paycheck from them and we have our 401k tied up in the HOPE that they make bucket loads!
And as for using our social security for the tax breaks, assuming this LIE to be fact, I say GREAT! Boomers like you will have hoovered up every dime I have put into the system long before I ever get a chance to see it. If I get a chance to see some of my money before you blow it on insense and Greatful Dead bootlegs I say yippee!!!!!”
But somehow, I knew he wouldn’t listen to my point of view. I knew that there would be no free exchange of ideas so I did the only thing I could, I shouted, “Go Bush! Four more years! Bush rocks! YEEEOOOWWWWW (think Howard Dean) I love George Bush! “ And I gave him my best double W salute (middle three fingers in a W shape).
Surprisingly, my love of W seemed to anger him more than any reasoned response. He turned beet red, shouted more statistics and tried valiantly, for those poor pot damaged lungs, to scream louder than my W love fest. Sadly for the poor boomer, this Gen Xer has 3 little kids and knows how to be the loudest scream in the room.
Frustrated and dejected, he cut in front of us and gave us the universal symbol for the IQ score of the average liberal……yes, the one finger salute, and sped off. We parked the car and headed for dinner.
When we returned to the car a few hours later, the Bush sticker was gone. I’d like to say I was surprised, but I learned long ago that liberals only support free speech when it agrees with their point of view. My only regret is that our provocateur did not see the shirt I had chosen to wear that night as though somehow I knew he would be there. Emblazoned across the front, in tasteful white on black it says simply, “Shut up hippy.”
“Go Bush!!!!!!! Four more years!!!YEOWWWWWW!”
You are lucky that is all that happened to your car. Most liberals are all for vandalizing property (to instill fear) in order to get people they don't agree with to be quiet...
This is gobbledy-gook even for a lib. You should've asked him if he sent his tax cut back, the dumbass hypocrite.
Bikers are disproportionately Republican. It's really not surprising since a big bike is an expensive toy.
He didn't have a face as long as a horse's did he?
I love this line.
I resemble that remark. ;)
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