Breakfast & the NRA
So I went out on a breakfast date - a blind breakfast date... I had talked with this guy via e-mail a few different times so we decided to meet. He was nice - he chose a breakfast place with some typical PDX character that served Stumptown Coffee (which was bonus points) - so all was looking good. TILL the discussion turned to the ARSENAL of WEAPONRY he feels the need to have... not a few guns - eight guns the man owns. Not to mention the fact that he plans on buying two more rather soon... I'll just let that settle in for a second......my reaction - I am completely serious as I describe this (I am not embellishing whatsoever)... but my reaction to him as he explained his need for eight guns was to physically cover my face with my hands, groan/moan/laugh (also known as the "groamgh") and shake my head a few times. I couldn't help it! EIGHT GUNS!?! Are you kidding me?
When I finally lifted my head and removed my hands from my face - I blinked a few times to make sure I hadn't some how ended up at breakfast with Charleton Heston - but no - it wasn't Ben Hur. Just some nice guy who lives in the sub-burbs of PDX - who mind you - has these guns for protection. Apparently ONE GUN just isn't enough protection from the mean streets of PDX... for that matter EIGHT GUNS apparently aren't enough.
It was kind of surreal - any second I expected Michael Moore to jump out from behind a menu - non-shaven, ass-crack show'n, baseball hat wearin' with a camera behind him... asking, "Have you ever been to Canada? Did you know they don't lock their doors up there?"
Anyway... that was last Sunday morning - hadn't heard from Jesse James till last night when I wasn't in a position to talk on the phone so I cut the call short & told him I would call him back... then I saw via caller-id (best invention ever!) that he called twice today... so now the ball is in my court to call him and tell him that I just don't think we are on the same page on certain issues... truthfully, with my physical reaction to his gun-toten, I am surprised he called me. I am not looking forward to this conversation - what the heck do I say? "Your nice - but I think your a bit of an anarchist." ... dating again sucks.
posted by Brat @ 9:53 PM
1 Comments:
hehehe. i loved the story all over again.
p.s. u <3 clinton, u <3 clinton!
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