Yes, the wingnut factor is pretty bad, but not as bad as it is in the midwest, for example - those people are nuts. A friend was driving through the midwest on her way to Seattle a few years ago, and at a gas station she was accosted by two men who had seen her bumper sticker which read "Namarie".
When she returned from paying for gas, she found one of these fine gentlemen peeing on her car. She yelled for him to stop, whereupon he started cursing at her and telling her how much he hated "those traitors, the French" (the French had disagreed with the invasion of Iraq, and the Bushwipes went off the deep end over that).
She said, "That's not French, you idiot that's Elvish from Tolkien! Don't you read?" This just made the guy madder, because he probably didn't understand a word of it except maybe "idiot". Naturally, he charged at her
She made it to the car, but he tried to prevent her from closing the door with his foot. She didn't think she would get any help from the people at the gas station - they were all wingnuts from the looks of them. She decided to go for her knife. Instead, she grabbed a green and white striped dildo by mistake. I do not know why said implement was where her knife usually was, or why the choice of color scheme - but whatever works...
The guy was so shocked that he took a step back. That was the opening she needed - she slammed the door and high-tailed it out of there.
I'm really, really glad she pulled the dildo instead of the knife - she may still be in a jail somewhere out there if she had pulled the knife. I'm sure they would have favored him.
So anyway, the point of all this was.... Some areas, while probably safer from tsunamis and nukes, is probably less safe from predatory, mentally ill wingnuts than DC, which is kind of cosmopolitan in a doofy kind of way.
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Date: 2006-08-29 06:22 pm (UTC)Yes, the wingnut factor is pretty bad, but not as bad as it is in the midwest, for example - those people are nuts. A friend was driving through the midwest on her way to Seattle a few years ago, and at a gas station she was accosted by two men who had seen her bumper sticker which read "Namarie".
When she returned from paying for gas, she found one of these fine gentlemen peeing on her car. She yelled for him to stop, whereupon he started cursing at her and telling her how much he hated "those traitors, the French" (the French had disagreed with the invasion of Iraq, and the Bushwipes went off the deep end over that).
She said, "That's not French, you idiot that's Elvish from Tolkien! Don't you read?" This just made the guy madder, because he probably didn't understand a word of it except maybe "idiot". Naturally, he charged at her
She made it to the car, but he tried to prevent her from closing the door with his foot. She didn't think she would get any help from the people at the gas station - they were all wingnuts from the looks of them. She decided to go for her knife. Instead, she grabbed a green and white striped dildo by mistake. I do not know why said implement was where her knife usually was, or why the choice of color scheme - but whatever works...
The guy was so shocked that he took a step back. That was the opening she needed - she slammed the door and high-tailed it out of there.
I'm really, really glad she pulled the dildo instead of the knife - she may still be in a jail somewhere out there if she had pulled the knife. I'm sure they would have favored him.
So anyway, the point of all this was.... Some areas, while probably safer from tsunamis and nukes, is probably less safe from predatory, mentally ill wingnuts than DC, which is kind of cosmopolitan in a doofy kind of way.
Very doofy, actually.