ANOTHER THING! This is NOT, I repeat..NOT, a tragedy. Hamlet is a tragedy. Oedipus is a tragedy. This was an atrocity. I was getting a battery for my watch this afternoon. I heard a bimbo complaining that the thing about this atrocity that ticks her off is that a marine ball has been cancelled. I wanted to pick that babe by the hair and bunny slap her. I wanted to say girl, you better get on your knees and pray that your man don't come home in a body bag. Another example of a prozac-sedated mind-numbed automaton. May God have mercy on her sin-sick soul.
"ANOTHER THING! This is NOT, I repeat..NOT, a tragedy. Hamlet is a tragedy. Oedipus is a tragedy. This was an atrocity. I was getting a battery for my watch this afternoon. I heard a bimbo complaining that the thing about this atrocity that ticks her off is that a marine ball has been cancelled. I wanted to pick that babe by the hair and bunny slap her. I wanted to say girl, you better get on your knees and pray that your man don't come home in a body bag. Another example of a prozac-sedated mind-numbed automaton. May God have mercy on her sin-sick soul. " You had it easy. I was in line at a store, and two young punks next to me in line (about late teens or early twenties) quipped casually, one to the other:
"Can you believe that almost 90 percent of the country is behind Bush in this thing?"
"Yeah.. Unbelieveable.. that guy [Bush] probably caused this whole thing."
Words cannot express then anger, rage and disappointment I felt. These ignorant children were nearly delivered my wrath - but as the nervous, incredulous clerk noticed me about to go nuclear, opened his eyes wide, and without a word, pleaded for me to leave. And I did, only because I decided that further unrest was not needed now.
Was my hesitation a failing? Perhaps.
But I will never forget those faces, and eventually, they will be educated. Let's just hope it is me, with my words, that teaches the lesson.