Monday, February 05, 2007

White supremacists

Butch and I went fishing on Saturday afternoon. We sat in the cold, caught one fish, chatted with two very interesting people. The first fella came up with a dog about four months old, a very curious black lab who kept licking the fish on the ice. Then the spines of the perch got too much for the sensitive tongue...so he lapped the ice out of my fishing hole. It, at the time, was the funniest darn thing you'd ever seen! I tried to get the camera out in time, but no dice...he thought that was interesting too.

No more fish and a lot of cold toes later, we left.

Two hours later I ended up coming home from making a run to the dump. I ran into an SUV parked in nearly the middle of the road at an intersection to the road that led home. I tried to weasel by his vehicle and the light post in the way, when I noticed his window roll down. I stopped after clearing his truck by inches (which he was watching closely) and asked if he needed help. He said, "no, I'm cool man. Just cruising around witha beer. I'm so pissed off man!" I asked what he was pissed about. He said, "Well man, with politics man. This whole fucking country is so involved with politics man. With [blah blah blah..couldn't really understand him] it's just going to hell, you know what I mean man? I'm just driving around, you know I've only been to three bars...just cuz I'm driving around with a beer doesn't mean I'm a drunk driver." I talked to him. "Um, yea, this all sucks. So what are you doing up here?" He replied with, "Man, I've just only been to four bars (notice the increase) and man, I just live a half mile away. I'm just pissed." So I told him I understood. Yea, yea this and that sucked. I said, "Well, there's a parking lot down the road about 100 yards, why don't you just go down there, spin some brodies and cool off a bit?" He replied, "Ahh man, I appreciate that. You're a good guy, our white brothers have to stick out for one another you know!? I mean, the blacks need to understand, you know man!?" No I don't.

By this time I'm becoming rather pissed off that this fella is in my neighborhood and all my "decency" wears off. I finally told him, "Listen, I'm going to be back down this way in about five minutes...I want you to be gone, dude. This isn't a neighborhood I want you in." He came back with, "well, thanks for the time brother. I'll get going.." (Or something in that sort of mood..he wasn't mad at me, just moving along.) I caught up with him down the road, then lost him at a traffic light. Not sure where he got, but luckily it didn't end up around where I lived.

So I traveled to the birthday party I was headed to and had a good time. Not sure what would've happened if he got weird on me, but at least I was in the position with my truck to seriously damage his little SUV and get out of there.

Sketchy things can happen in "normal" places around here I guess. Didn't think I could be that forward and mean with a stranger, but he was a little too weird for me to like him being around.

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