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you should be careful around strangers, they could turn out to be mass murdering muslim palestinian israeli christian illegal alien terrorists.
last night after work, i ran into a neighbor who was walking his dogs. as usual, i stoppped and chatted, and petted the dogs. i don't even know this man's name. he asked me where i worked, and i told him, a bank. we talked just a little about that, and then he asked me what i thought about the government. he said, "i know you have an obama sticker on your car, are you ready to say you made a mistake?"........i said, no, i wasn't. he then told me that obama was a muslim who was trying to turn our country into a mulsim state, and obama didn't care about the constitution. i asked him what was obama doing that was unconstitutional......he said i obviously didn't read. i said......can we just talk about the dogs?
why do people feel it's acceptable to badger a person about their politics, when they don't even know your name? i'm disgusted, and it's ruined the nice feelings i had about the old guy.
btw...the obama sticker is on my husband's car......as i mentioned, i work for a bank. not many liberals around here.
You response to that should have been, "I have to go, have a nice evening."
See, I would have said "Yeah, I made the mistake of stopping to chat with a ****ing idiot who has some dogs. Are you ready to admit that you are that idiot."
That would work too.
If he pressed the issue after I said the nice stuff, that would be my response as well.
I have a personal rule for people I speak with in public, no politics and no religion(unless it is positive about their religion).
When people try to violate this with me, I try to move past it quickly.
If they wish to press it, I walk away.
You response to that should have been, "I have to go, have a nice evening."
I don't mind talking politics or religion, I just have no tolerance for idiocy.
it was, kind of......i can't alienate the guy, he's on the board and i have to live there.
You know when they say, "Obviously you don't read," or some crap like that, that they have no real argument to put forward.
Your only mistake was engaging in conversation with a lower form of intelligence than yourself, but I can't blame you for trying to be nice.
i have MANY close friends that are republican or conservative. in fact........one of them changed his tune real quick about offshore drilling when the bp disaster hit. kinda funny.
for the most part, we just don't discuss politics, and they are fine people. and i like talking to people, i had no way of knowing he was unbalanced!
That sucks. HE deserved an intellectual smackdown for his rudeness.
last night after work, i ran into a neighbor who was walking his dogs. as usual, i stoppped and chatted, and petted the dogs. i don't even know this man's name. he asked me where i worked, and i told him, a bank. we talked just a little about that, and then he asked me what i thought about the government. he said, "i know you have an obama sticker on your car, are you ready to say you made a mistake?"........i said, no, i wasn't. he then told me that obama was a muslim who was trying to turn our country into a mulsim state, and obama didn't care about the constitution. i asked him what was obama doing that was unconstitutional......he said i obviously didn't read. i said......can we just talk about the dogs?
why do people feel it's acceptable to badger a person about their politics, when they don't even know your name? i'm disgusted, and it's ruined the nice feelings i had about the old guy.
btw...the obama sticker is on my husband's car......as i mentioned, i work for a bank. not many liberals around here.
I didn't mean he was lower life for being a republican; he is lower life because he's obviously a douche bag. Who approaches someone in a park while they're walking their dog to bother them about their politics?
it was, kind of......i can't alienate the guy, he's on the board and i have to live there.
I was once badgered by a neighbor about coming to her church so I could experience the indwelling of the holy spirit (i.e., speaking in tongues), in the middle of a grocery store. I have no desire to speak in tongues, thank you very much.
I don't mind talking politics or religion, I just have no tolerance for idiocy.
it does suck. i was just so taken aback that a person i didn't know would basically attack me. society used to be a bit more polite.
If society used to be more polite, I can't really remember it.
I tend to react very strongly to rudeness in real life. It's a major pet peeve of mine. Most of the time I just call attention to their ignorance in such as way that it embarrases teh hell out of them.
It helps that I am immune to being embarrased. My wife hates it though.
and that is when you lost the political debate he initiated with youlast night after work, i ran into a neighbor who was walking his dogs. as usual, i stoppped and chatted, and petted the dogs. i don't even know this man's name. he asked me where i worked, and i told him, a bank. we talked just a little about that, and then he asked me what i thought about the government. he said, "i know you have an obama sticker on your car, are you ready to say you made a mistake?"........i said, no, i wasn't. he then told me that obama was a muslim who was trying to turn our country into a mulsim state, and obama didn't care about the constitution. i asked him what was obama doing that was unconstitutional......he said i obviously didn't read. i said......can we just talk about the dogs?
he believed you felt strongly enough about your politics to affix an Obama bumper sticker to your car to show it; the implication may have been that you were willing to take a public stand by publicly advertising your political supportwhy do people feel it's acceptable to badger a person about their politics, when they don't even know your name?
why, because his politics are those of the republicans?i'm disgusted, and it's ruined the nice feelings i had about the old guy.
but, based on your forum name and posts, while that was your spouse's car, it would appear your brand of politics is the same. and if that were not the case, you had the opportunity to express it ... but you instead backed away from any form of verbal combatbtw...the obama sticker is on my husband's car......as i mentioned, i work for a bank. not many liberals around here.
Unfortunately, the best one can usually do is not stoop to their level and be polite in return.
If society used to be more polite, I can't really remember it.
I tend to react very strongly to rudeness in real life. It's a major pet peeve of mine. Most of the time I just call attention to their ignorance in such as way that it embarrases teh hell out of them.
It helps that I am immune to being embarrased. My wife hates it though.
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