Posted on 08/24/2002 12:38:42 PM PDT by AnnaZ
Leni
Most people don't realize it is not the commies we are trying to sway, it is those walking by. One articulate person with a sign can make a difference.
Diotima - brilliant idea to infiltrate the enemy camp with the 'Osama Fan Club' sign! ;-D
nutmeg & zelig
nutmeg & zelig
I just wanted to let you folks know that I was still alive and haven't forgotten my promise to get the video up.
Hope you'll enjoy it when it's ready!
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As I tried to use the bullhorn she became angry and kept trying to put her fact up to mine in order to yell through it. After several minutes of her shoving and putting her face in mine, I turned the bullhorn torward her and continued chanting. I would imagine her brain is still vibrating from the experience.
This took her completely by surprise. She was forced to back off to about three feet and place her poster between her and myself for relief. Not to be stopped from her nonsensical behavior, she then moved closer placing her posters right up against the bullhorn. Then she lowered them and used one hand to shove the bullhorn into my face cutting my lip. This is what I had expected to happen all morning. Finally it occurred.
The problem with this type of sitution is that I could have easily responded by decking the twit, but you can't win one of these so it's best to just forget it. I told her I'd appreciate if she wouldn't push the bullhorn in my face and let it drop.
My lip was puffy and bled a little bit, nothing really serious. It wasn't worth creating an incident, but it was an assult. I could have tried to give the woman grief over it by reporting it to the closest officer, but I didn't.
About ten minutes later this same woman approached me with an oversided cup of some coffee based drink saying, "I oughta throw this on you. You deserve it. You did't even appologize." By this time I had already turned and walked away from her several times, so you know what, I appologized. About this time one of the organizers of the other side made a half-assed attempt to get her to back off, which she finally did.
Any guy out there knows you never win one of these situations with a woman. She could take out an 36" sword and cut your arm off, but if you retaliated it would be "your" fault. The only thing the group would notice was that you took advantage of a woman.
I don't like being put in that position. You have to have a lot of patience. I think AnnaZ and a few of the others didn't have quite the problem I did because they weren't driving the other side nuts with a bullhorn. Those bullhorns can really even the numbers if yours is five times louder than theirs. And mine is. It was driving them crazy that I was stating, "Hey hey ho ho, Governor Davis has got to go!" and "$6 billion dollar surplus to a $24 billion dollar deficit in just four years, where's the $30 billion Governor Davis?" and "The state budget was $65 billion four years ago, today it's over $100 billion, that's a 54% increase in just four years governor Davis!"
Evidently the other side agreed that a few chump comments about Tax evasion didn't carry the same weight. LOL, these folks are brain dead.
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