Leelanau Whippersnapper

OK, the title is a bit dramatic.  One thing I’ve done very little of on this blog is provide commentary on abortion.  So often, gay rights and abortion rights end up in the same camp.  From the right, both are what makes the left evil and a disgrace to human kind.  Often, court rulings for both issues hinge on a “right to privacy” enumerated by the Supreme Court in Roe V. Wade, the federal court case just filed against Prop 8 in California hinges on that very right.  The most obvious similarity is that they are both social issues that are at the top of the agenda for both sides of the aisle.

Dr. George Tiller, who remained one of the nation’s few providers of late-term abortions through decades of protests and attacks, was shot and killed Sunday in a church where he was serving as an usher and his wife was in the choir.

…Long a focus of national anti-abortion groups, including a summer-long protest in 1991, Tiller was serving as an usher during Sunday morning services when he was shot in the foyer of Reformation Lutheran Church, Stolz said.

…”We just thought a child had come in with a balloon and it had popped, had gone up and hit the ceiling and popped,” [congregation member Adam] Watkins said.

Another usher came in and told the congregation to remain seated, then escorted Tiller’s wife out. “When she got to the back doors, we heard her scream, and so we knew something bad had happened,” Watkins said.

I’ll have to admit that the name George Tiller was not a name I knew anything about.  You see, being a male, and being gay has put me in a class of people who have very little use for any sort of abortion rights and I’ve never really felt that it was my place to express an opinion about this issue when it is extremely unlikely to ever come into play in my personal life.  As it goes however, I can have an opinion and in the words of others, I believe it should be legal and extremely rare.

Having said that I want to focus more here on the social commentary involved in this incident.  Today a man was assassinated because he was providing a legal service to women who were seeking to terminate their pregnancy.  This practice is not illegal, he was breaking no laws (no matter how controversial it is).  It is the zeal of the assassin that worries me.  It’s been a LONG time since we’ve heard reports of abortion clinic bombings and shootings that were quite common 10 years ago.  There are always protests when Congress is forced to uphold what at this point is considered ’settled law”, especially when new SCOUTS judges are being considered.  In the blogosphere, pundants are wondering if the political atmosphere is so explosive right now that the fringe groups (who are applauding this shooting) are making themselves known again.  Are the fundamentalists so marginalized now that they do not have the political power which had 10 years ago starting to break into sect like groups who are plotting domestic terrorism?  I don’t know the answer to that but with this issue and of course with the gay marriage debate, it is very clear that there is a small but vocal minority of people in this country who, because they are not getting what they want, have begun to turn towards violence to accomplish their goals and this is where my problem is.  Take just a minute and parallel an abortion provider who provides a legal abortion to a woman with a justice of the peace who provides a legal marriage to a gay couple.  Both are (or may soon be) completely acceptable in terms of the written law, but the services being provided remain deeply divisive in practice and put people at risk.

I have a hard time with violence.  I agree that abortion might be considered murder but I disagree that we should be playing a tit for tat game here.  My blood is deeply anti-violence.  I have a hard time with action movies, because, even while I know they are fiction, there is something unsettling about seeing someone get shot in the face, even if it is Batman.  I read every day in the gay media about gay people who are beaten up, some who are killed, some who, through no fault of their own are victimized over and over again at the hands of people so convinced that their view is the only correct way to solve a problem.  I have a very difficult time understanding why we, as a human species, have yet to learn how to live with the differences among us.  Why must I, as a gay man, be concerned for my own safety because I am part of a target class?  Why must an abortion provider, who is licensed by the state they are practicing in and providing a legal service, have to wear a bullet proof vest just to go to work?

Clearly I don’t have answers to those questions but I thought it was time that I weigh in on the issue.  I know I can be overly dramatic and highly verbally critical of groups of people who disagree with my position on gay rights.  A blog like this allows me to be one sided, to share it with the world and pretty much say that if you don’t like it, than fuck you.  My words and my feelings however can never translate into violent acts against other people.  I know I must protect myself from people who might do me harm but why?  Should I just accept that I have to live like that?  I know full well that if hit, I’d never hit back.  I just don’t do that sort of thing even when faced with serious injury I would rather stand and take it knowing that reciprocation of violence perpetuates and increases the problem.  I’d much prefer to have a discussion with you and agree to disagree or work with you to find a compromise or a solution to our problem.  I had this anti-violence condition even as a kid.  Schoolyard scuffles with me were always one sided because I didn’t fight back.  I simply had no use for it.  Thus, I never got into many scuffles because it just was not very rewarding for the other side!    I do fear that when people are marginalized they can become violent.  I do fear that the more gay rights are gained, the more it pisses off those who are against us which may lead to violence.  I do feel that this abortion provider was killed because abortion is considered a non-starter in today’s liberal climate, it’s legal and it’s not likely to change and that pisses some people off.  I fear that gay marriage may soon land in the same camp as abortion rights and that married gay couples (or people who provide marriage licenses to gay couples) will become targets.

This is rhetorical and I’m not looking for your answers personally but what are your feeling on hot button social issues?  Are you a person who solves problems using violence or are you a person who solves problems with communication knowing that the big picture and the fact that regardless of what we each think about an issue we all must continue to live side by side on this planet?  I should have been a Quaker.

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The End of Days is nearly upon us.  It was announced today by the Wasilla Frontiersman that the Antichrist will be a homosexual!!

Sodomy is the only sin for which God came down from heaven to destroy. Though God dealt with many other sins in various ways, there is no other for which he came down from heaven to verify and destroy. In the New Testament, sodomy is declared to be “against nature.” And of the men, Paul in Romans 1 says they leave “the natural use of the woman….” In effect, there is no greater sin against God than to reject how he made you, and no greater sin against women than to reject how God made them. But will the Antichrist be a homosexual? Having seen what the Bible says of sodomy, we have no further to look than the book of Daniel, chapter 11 to find our answer. It says, “Neither shall he [Antichrist] regard… the desire of women….” As I said at the onset, I am not the first to draw attention to this, but the verbiage is clear.

In case you didn’t know, Wasilla is Sarah Palin’s home town in Alaska.  You know, the place in Alaska where you can see Russia from Ms. Palin’s bedroom window?

Now then, I envision the homosexual Antichrist as a 7 foot tall Liberace in a gaudy sequined pin-strip leisure suit and a red velvet hat.  What do you think?

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You all will get to read my rantings for at least the short term on California and the same sex marriage debate.  I’ve expressed that this is an issue that is at least a little bit important to me and at the same time, it’s also important to you.  Most of you reading this are married heterosexuals.  Some of you have been married happily or not for decades, some for just a few years, some a few times.  The idea of marriage is typically a goal that humans strive to attain.  We are the only species on earth that spends our entire lives looking for that one soul mate to spend our lives with.  We are the only species who understands and recognizes the stability and comfort that marriage can bring to each person involved.  Our government recognizes these feelings too and throughout history our government has recognized the special significance of human relationships whether they last 75 years, or 75 hours.  There are emotional benefits to relationships as well as tangible legal benefits to marriage and they are codified by our government.

Recent events in California have again brought the issue of same sex marriage to the forefront of the ‘culture wars’.  2 very well known lawyers have decided that the time is right to bring a constitutional case for gay marriage to the US Supreme Court under the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the United States Constitution.  The lawyers you will remember from Bush vs. Gore in 2000 and both are from completely opposite sides of the political spectrum.  Each of them however believe firmly in the guarantees put out by our Constitution.  A portion of their press release is below.  Click HERE to read the full release.

Ted Olson: Thank you, Chad. Good morning everyone. Thank you for being here.

I’m Ted Olson, and I’m very, very pleased to be here with my friend and colleague, David Boies. As you heard, we are two lawyers from opposite ends of the political spectrum who have come together to support one of the most important issues of our time. The case we filed on behalf of the individuals that you see before you today is not about liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican. We’re here, in part, to symbolize that. This case is about the equal rights guaranteed to every American under the United States constitution.

For too long, gay men and lesbians who seek stable, committed, loving relationships within the institution of marriage have been denied that fundamental right that the rest of us freely enjoy.

Yesterday, the California Supreme Court said that Proposition 8 makes it okay for gay men and lesbians to be our neighbors, our friends, our doctors, our lawyers, our parents, our children, our brothers and our sisters, but they can’t get married.

The plaintiffs in this case are Americans. They work hard, they pay their taxes and they want to get married just like many of the rest of us. They simply want to live their lives without being discriminated against by their government. All they want are the freedoms to which they are entitled under the constitution and to which the rest of us so freely enjoy.

Creating a second class of citizens is discrimination, plain and simple. The constitution of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Abraham Lincoln does not permit it. Our nation was founded on the principle that all Americans are created equal. This case is about ensuring that every American is treated equally under the law.

California has created a separate relationship for same sex couples called Domestic Partnerships. That is separate, and that is not equal. It is unconstitutional. Proposition 8 denies people fundamental constitutional rights.

Our courts exist to protect people when their rights are infringed. Citizens of this country, when they’re denied equal rights, turn to the courts for vindication of those rights. That is why we have them.

We’re going to court because people shouldn’t have to surrender their fundamental rights to a popular plebiscite. People should not have to beg to be treated equally, or wait for decades for popular approval to be treated equally. And when people are denied their rights, they deserve a remedy, and the courts are the most direct way to accomplish that.

Now I would like to introduce my dear colleague and dear friend, David Boies.

David Boies: Thank you Ted. It’s a pleasure to be here. I must say that being up here on a platform with Ted Olson and all these lights makes me want to urge everybody to count every vote. [Laughter.] But we are here today for something that is of equal and perhaps even greater importance. Our constitution guarantees every American the right to be treated equally under the law. There is no right more fundamental than the right to marry the person that you love and to raise a family.

The courts exist to reverse injustices. The purpose of our constitution and the purpose of our court system is to make sure that the promise of our constitution is extended to every American. That’s what this lawsuit is about.

The concept of equality, of equal rights and equal justice under the law, is not just in our constitution. I believe it is in the hearts and souls of every American. And we have tolerated discrimination and injustice in the past because we have been blinded to the fact that the person being discriminated against is simply another human being, another American. That blindness has enabled us historically not to recognize the equality of people based on sex, based on race, based on religion, and now based on sexual orientation.

This lawsuit is about the courts saying that no matter how blind people may be, the constitution guarantees that everyone deserves the equal rights that every human being is entitled to. And we go to court because that is the place that those equal rights have been established time and again over the last hundred years. Thank you.

The full press release is worth reading as it addresses some important concerns, chief among them the fact that nearly every major GLBT organization believes that now is not the right time for this case to be brought.  That there are simply not enough states on board yet and public opinion is simply not at the critical mass needed to win this sort of case.  While I’m inclined to believe that point and I’ve said before that I think the courts ought to stay out of this fight at least while there is momentum in state legislatures to change the system, I do agree with the points that these lawyers are making.  Why should I have to wait years for a civil right that has previously been acknowledged in MY constitution?  There is no question that there is a civil right to marriage in this country.  The question is whether or not that right can be denied to a specific group of people for any specific reason.  It is at this point that Americans must make a decision.  Are gay relationships similar to straight relationships or are they fundamentally different?  Is being gay at all a normal human variance (science says it is) or is being gay a choice (as religion seems to think it is).  Those questions are polar opposites but they are fundamental in framing this debate.

Anyhow, I’m not sure yet how I lean on this new federal lawsuit.  I’ll be interested in reading the briefs when they are filed to see exactly what is being challenged.  I’m inclined to believe that people should never have to wait for civil rights in this country while at the same time, this lawsuit has the potential to be lost which would mean a major set back in the gay rights movement.  We are talking years of progress that could be dismantled over night.  I’m not sure I’m ready to see all that ground lost.  Stay tuned for more posts like this.  I have very few other things going on in my life outside of work and following this issue and writing about it keeps my brain functioning.

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Well, as promised, today at 10am Pacific Time, the California Supreme Court handed down it’s ruling on the two issues facing it.  They found in an 8-1 ruling that Proposition 8, the constitutional amendment that withdrew equal marriage rights in California was in fact a proper amendment.  It allowed the voter initiative defining marriage between a man and a woman to stand effectively writing discrimination (as found unconstitutional by the same court) into the California Constitution.  It also ruled in a unanimous vote that the 18,000 same sex couples who got married prior to the November election would not lose their status as legally married in California.  So, both sides got something but neither side is happy.  There are now 2 classes of gay couples.  Those who are legally married and those who are not…in the same state.  I can’t wait to see how they handle divorce.  Tonight, rather than go too much further in expressing my own disappointment in this ruling (after all, it doesn’t change anything for me since in Michigan I’m still a second class citizen regardless of what California does) I will simply post the press release from Equality California:

LOS ANGELES – Following the California Supreme Court’s decision today to uphold Prop. 8, which stripped same-sex couples of their right to marry, Equality California (EQCA) vowed to win marriage back at the ballot box. EQCA released the following statement as well as a memo to members and allies detailing its recommendations to return to the ballot in 2010.Statement from Marc Solomon, EQCA’s Marriage Director:

“Today’s ruling is a miscarriage of justice. No minority group should have to defend its right to equality at the ballot.

“Despite today’s setback, Equality California is committed to restoring the freedom to marry.  We believe, as do the majority of our members, that 2010 is the best time to return to the ballot to repeal Prop. 8. We must take full advantage of the momentum and commitment people now have to do the work required on the ground. However, we will make the final decision on when to return in collaboration with our coalition partners and allies throughout the state.

“We have already launched a mobilization campaign to reach more than 300,000 Californians in the next 100 days in places where we need the most movement-Los Angeles County, San Diego, Orange County, the Inland Empire, the Central Valley and Sacramento, and over the coming weeks we will expand our efforts with our partners and tens of thousands of volunteers.

“We do not underestimate the challenge of implementing a strong ballot campaign. Introducing ballot language is simple; winning an affirmative referendum on the freedom to marry will be difficult and expensive. But we have confidence that we can and will prevail.

“We look forward to working with our coalition partners to make a final decision on when to return to the ballot and to putting together one powerful, winning campaign program to ensure that committed, same-sex couples are once again able to enjoy the dignity and protections that marriage provides.”

To read the entire memo detailing arguments for 2010 versus 2012, please visit www.eqca.org/2010v2012memo

This is not the end of the fight, both sides know it.  By 2012 at the latest, it’s very likely that a campaign to repeal this amendment would succeed especially considering that the current amendment passed by only a very slim margin.  As I’ve said in previous posts, it is ALWAYS 1 step forward, 2 steps back.  Gay marriage will be a reality in my lifetime, it’s only a matter of time.

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Alright folks, Tuesday is the day or reckoning for a major decision regarding same sex marriage.  Tomorrow by 10am the Supreme Court of California is expected to rule on the fate of Proposition 8.  Just to re-cap, this was the voter referendum that overturned gay marriage in California in November and left 18,000 legally married gay couples in legal limbo.  The questions before the court pertained to whether or not Prop 8 was a ‘revision’ to the state Constitution and thus improper because revisions require legislative action (revisions can not be made to the California constitution in the same way that ballot proposals or ballot initiatives can) and IF it was not a revision and it was legal, what then becomes of the 18,000 legal marriages that took place in California between gay couples between the day it was made legal to the day it was ended.  This decision will be all over the news on Tuesday but you can expect my reaction one way or the other to be posted here when I get home from work tomorrow night.  I thought it would be interesting for you to read something I picked up on Pam’s House Blend tonight as I read through my blogs about what might happen should the court invalidate Prop 8.  Invalidating the proposition would infuriate the vocal but shrinking minority of the population who will stop at nothing to make sure gays and lesbians are treated as second class citizens.  Could a decision in favor of gay rights start a civil war (I think not but others are not so positive).

Yes, the right wing is losing on gay rights issues. That is, very precisely, why they’re more dangerous now than they have been in the past. Their impending irrelevance is not a reason to worry less; it’s a reason to worry more. And getting Prop 8 overturned in the courts would ignite the situation, because it will hit absolutely every angry-making right-wing button there is:1. The biggest state in the country, comprising fully 1/8 of the nation’s population, will have legal gay marriage. That, right there, will be pretty much the end of the war, and they know it. The five states currently on board are worrisome, but they’re small and not considered the kind of cultural juggernaut California is.

2. Overturning Prop 8 would push every button the right wing has about Godless liberals on the coasts imposing their moral values on them. “Pushing their immorality down our throats” has always been one of rural America’s major recurring complaints, particularly among evangelicals who seriously believe that God will withdraw his special blessing from America – and possibly destroy the country — if gays can get married. (I know, I know. But they are what they are.) While the feelings about this have always run strong and deep, they’ve become much more intense since their political power began slipping away from them in 2006, and particularly since Obama took office and they lost Congress.

In this brave new world, the perverts don’t even have the basic decency to feel shame about it anymore. They don’t even know where to start with that. It makes them absolutely desperate with rage.

3. The fact that the deed was done by a bunch of California liberal activist judges who had to reverse the outcome of a statewide election — an election that every conservative church in the country had at least an emotional stake in, and often a financial stake as well — is going to be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. They hate judges. They really hate liberal judges. They really, really hate California liberal judges, and have since Earl Warren. Having judges undo what they considered to be a major moral victory for their side could push their fury from merely seething to absolutely explosive.

That’s why a positive decision for California’s gay community could create considerable negative — and potentially violent — blowback throughout the nation. Since they can’t get at California’s judges, they may decide to strike out at local gays, gay-owned businesses, gay bars, and their own local judiciary, wherever they happen to be. If I were associated with any of these things in a conservative patch of the country, I’d be spending today thinking through some serious security precautions.

In the worst case, this decision could become the catalyst for a new round of large-scale domestic terrorism from the right. As I’ve noted, everything I’m seeing points to a subculture that is gearing up for this kind of heroic last stand in defense of a lost cause. And this time, it’s not going to be just a few white supremacist/militia/patriot/anti-choice wackos. The new crop of right wing militants is better connected, better trained, better armed, and absolutely determined to go down fighting. And, as the SPLC keeps telling us, there may considerably more people motivated to support them than there have been in the past. It’s not unthinkable that between 15 and 20% of the country could be inclined to start — or at least support — a civil war over this.

The above is from a web site called Orcinus and is not my writing.  Credit where credit is due.  This is an important decision.  California represents 1/8 of the population of this country and is HUGELY significant in all areas of commerce and politics.  A favorable decision for gay rights in this case would not end the struggle by any stretch but it would signify the short road left towards the end of this war.  What California does, so too does this country.  You can think what you want about that statement however it has proven true again and again.  An unfavorable decision will set back this movement at least another 5 years if not longer.  As more states move to recognize gay marriage, it is simply a matter of time before people all over the country realize that the world is not going to end, the sky will not fall, your children will not suddenly turn gay, you will not explode in a fit of fire and brimstone when we ALL share the same rights and freedoms.  Gay people are everywhere and there is simply no excuse for ANY person (gay or not) to be excluded from every right, responsibility, and tenant afforded to EVERY citizen of this country.  The battle may be lost OR it may be won tomorrow but folks, the war is already over.

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I decided to do a little movie marathon this weekend and watch all 3 of the Back To The Future movies.  I remember going to see all of those in the theater.  You don’t see movies like that much any more.  Sure, there is Harry Potter and The Chronicles of Narnia but Spielberg isn’t churning out the epic flicks like he used to.  Anyhow, I enjoyed them then, and I enjoy them now.  It would be fun to be able to travel through time.

This is Memorial Day weekend and it is PACKED up in the northwoods.  It was a little chilly today (low 60’s) but that didn’t stop people from enjoying the sun.  There were tons of boats on Lake Leelanau today and of course everyone was up at the lake today.  I played with Gavin for a good 2 hours letting him chase the ball into the lake and retrieve it (his favorite thing to do in the world).  We then went over to Lake Michigan and played on the beach for a while.  It was nice to get away.  Tomorrow I head back to work.

Anyhow, here is a new picture.  Do you ever wonder what it would be like if we humans had to do this when we got wet?  Don’t have much else to write about tonight.  Time to go watch that 3rd Back to the Future movie!!

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Well, as you can see there is a new theme that I am trying out on this blog.  As you know, I can’t stand to have things look the same forever.  It gives me a headache.  I’m not sure if I will keep this one or not but until I have time (maybe this weekend) to play around a bit more, this one will have to do.  I’ve uploaded a great new gallery tonight at leelanauphotography.com featuring the Cherry Blossoms of 2009 (among other things).  Be sure to check it out.  I had a nice day off today out at the cottage.  Mom and I went for a drive with Gavin up to the Northport area and stopped at Peterson Park.  It’s still a little cold up here for what is fast becoming late spring however I was able to get some great pictures.  Gavin is now snoring loudly sprawled out on my bed, exhausted from a day of hiking and swimming.  Doesn’t take much.

The folks are off to Iowa in a couple days and leaving me to fend for myself over the Memorial Day holiday.  I’m not sure yet if I will venture out to the cottage or not this weekend.  I’m not really sure I want to deal with the droves of people who will arrive for a few days and then disappear until the 4th of July when they will come back.  It seems crazy that people spend all this money on a lake house and only use it a few days out of the year.  I know people have to work, it just seems strange.

Not much else going on right now.  I am slowly working on a new web site but I’ve not yet come up with a name for it or a general theme.  I don’t want it to detract from my readership on this site so it has to be something completely different.  I’ve got to figure out what I have time for and what I want to explore.  I picked up a web hosting package in December for $20 for 2 years (SUPER cheap)…frivolous spending since I didn’t need it and now I’ve had it for 5 months and not done anything with it.  We’ll see.  Maybe I should create an autobiographical web site….from Birth to Old Fart…the life and times of David the Dork….haha.

Here is a picture from the new gallery.  Check it out.

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Without fully knowing my audience here, sadly, I can’t write much about an event that occurred this weekend to one of my co-workers.  The short of it is, had this co-worker been permitted under the laws of Michigan to marry her partner with the full force of the law and the rights granted as such, she would not be in her current predicament.  Her life has now been fully transformed into one of uncertainty and she now has to wade through gray areas of Michigan law to protect herself, her assets and her child.  A very sad situation indeed and one that I regret that I can not write about on this public blog.  If you are straight and you don’t currently support the idea that gays and lesbians deserve the right to marry, perhaps you might consider what would happen to your life if suddenly you had no legal recourse for something your spouse did.

It’s been a VERY long weekend and nearly a week since I’ve written in this blog.  I’ve been putting in long days at work lately and while that always pays off with a good paycheck, the damage it’s doing to my body is noticeable.  Standing and walking for 12 hours at a time on a hard concrete floor with only about an hour’s worth of sit-down breaks is wreaking havoc on my feet and my back.  I can only image how bad I would be right now if I had not lost so much weight over the past several years.  I’ve finally reached an “average” weight for a male my height although I find it hard to believe that it’s average.  I still think I need to shed a few pounds.

The folks from downstate or the ‘fudgies’ as they are know to us locals have started to arrive in droves to Traverse City.  It’s cherry blossom time and even though it’s still ridiculously cold outside, the flowers are in full bloom and Memorial Day weekend is this next weekend.  It’s early this year.  With the influx of tourists come all sorts of issues at work.  It’s impossible to gauge how busy we will be at any given time so staffing is a bitch.  It’s also impossible to know what people are going to buy lots of this year vs. last year because there is no consistency.  Shoppers in general are about the most inconsistent people on the planet (myself included of course).  We are all so influenced by the “next big thing” that people simply forget about the things that actually work….and then I get yelled at when the “next big thing” doesn’t perform to expectations…as if I actually have any control over that sort of thing.

This is also the time of year when suddenly people just get stupid.  Today a woman just got hysterical when an employee failed to notice her requests for help.  The employee is deaf, she didn’t bother to re-think her strategy about asking for help from people until I informed her that he could not hear a word she was screaming at him.  Luckily she was overcome with guilt and the expression on her face when I told her was just priceless.  I had several people today ask over and over again where something was when all they had to do was turn around and look right behind them.  People are so unfocused that they simply refuse to actually USE the signs and directional information that my company spends MILLIONS of dollars on each year to help shoppers HELP THEMSELVES.  It’s just too much work for them.  Patience is also a REALLY big problem for people.  Many times today I was helping someone only to be rudely interrupted by someone who could not wait their turn.  It is SO very clear when we are helping people and when we not.  Really folks, I don’t get paid to stand around and shoot the shit with random people, I get paid to SELL STUFF TO PEOPLE.  I could really give a shit about your personal lives.  It is NOT necessary to push your way in front of other people to get me to notice that you need help too.  I’ll get to you…WAIT YOUR FUCKING TURN.

Tomorrow is a short day for me thank God.  Out at noon and then hopefully right home so I can mow my grass and exercise Gavin who has been extra patient with me lately as my hours at work have increased.  He’ll get a good workout at the cottage on Tuesday.

Finally a warning to you parents out there who are too involved in your own existence to notice the terror your children are inflicting on employees at big box stores with smooth concrete floors…which are perfect for those fucking shoes with wheels on the bottom.  Next time your child decides to run me over take note of the sign below:

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