Not So Cool
Oct. 4th, 2006 06:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silverthorneDear Person in the SUV, dressed up in suit and tie and smiling way too much:
You know, I have no problems with about 90% of the religions out there. I have very few problems with many of the 'Christian' sects that send their people out on the streets to pimp their God, and I don't even really mind saying for the bazillionth time 'No, thanks, not interested.'
What I do mind is when you pull up to the gas pump on the other side of the concrete island, get out of your nice pretty upper-middle class SUV and approach me with your little smiling cherub face.
From behind.
At 5:45 am, when there's not many people and cars on the street, and it's still dark out.
You're damned lucky you were smart enough to keep a few feet distance, and smart enough to back off, turn around, and get back in your little SUV and leave when I said 'No thank you, not interested.
Because quite frankly? Innocent evangelical or not, I would have creamed the shit out of you with the gas nozzle if you had pushed your luck and your distance.
Just in case the God you were going to help me find happened to be in the back of the SUV with a knife.
Dumb ass.
You know, I have no problems with about 90% of the religions out there. I have very few problems with many of the 'Christian' sects that send their people out on the streets to pimp their God, and I don't even really mind saying for the bazillionth time 'No, thanks, not interested.'
What I do mind is when you pull up to the gas pump on the other side of the concrete island, get out of your nice pretty upper-middle class SUV and approach me with your little smiling cherub face.
From behind.
At 5:45 am, when there's not many people and cars on the street, and it's still dark out.
You're damned lucky you were smart enough to keep a few feet distance, and smart enough to back off, turn around, and get back in your little SUV and leave when I said 'No thank you, not interested.
Because quite frankly? Innocent evangelical or not, I would have creamed the shit out of you with the gas nozzle if you had pushed your luck and your distance.
Just in case the God you were going to help me find happened to be in the back of the SUV with a knife.
Dumb ass.
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Date: 2006-10-04 11:48 am (UTC)And that was just to witness? Pardon the irony, but lord in heaven. There are times and places for that sort of thing, and RAPE O' CLOCK AM is NOT one of them.
Worst way to start the day EVER. D: Poor thing.
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Date: 2006-10-04 12:04 pm (UTC)If it were an innocent 'witnessing', the guy is putting himself into way too much danger; anyone he does that to can potentially be a nasty person himself.
And of course, on the other side of it:
Nice clothes, nice car, big neighborly smile, and he didn't buy any gas. Just drove up, got out, talked to me, got back in the SUV and left.
Hello, Ted Bundy.
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Date: 2006-10-04 03:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-05 10:16 am (UTC)And he'd have to be pretty retarded or the most socially inept yuppie to grace this planet to not think that that DOESN'T sounds like some kind of opening line before he cuts you. To, you know, send you to see the Kingdom of Heaven for yourself.
...Maybe he was a Scientologist.
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Date: 2006-10-05 11:50 am (UTC)...Oh great, now I'm having visions of Tom Cruise..well, cruising Hollywood at OMFG am to 'spread the word.'
...And it's turning into a right nice murder-thriller in my head as I speak. Only, it would be a 'true story'. XD.
I think what keeps me from being that charitable and assuming it was a witnessing is because it was in a 24-hour gas station (where all sorts of ugly stuff tends to happen when the sun goes down. Trust me on that.). That, and this is Texas--home of David Koresh, and the fucked up family down south that inspired the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies.
Which means, even if he was witnessing...it really is likely his brand of doing so would be with a knife or gun. Or it might even have been a possible attempt at robbery.
...I just happen to do a good job of not looking easy to take down (Comes from years of dealing with asshole truck-drivers who think they can intimidate the female dock worker into doing what they want and not following what she wants them to do. Gotta be able to intimidate right back.). That, and I had the hose and nozzle between me and him, and an obvious and flexible grip on said hose and nozzle. I'm also a sizable girl, and it's obvious a good chunk of that size is muscle.
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Date: 2006-10-05 12:24 pm (UTC)And speaking of movies, it's hilarious that you mentioned Texas Chainsaw, because right when I went to my e-mail to check your notification, Hotmail shows me an ad for Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. OH WHAT. THERE'S ANOTHER? OMG. Must find info.
HANYWAYS.
I'm pretty naive when it comes to 'big city' stuff, and, despite being such a crusty cynic some of the times, like to try and believe in humanity's better nature. But yeah, I doubt this guy had Good Intentions. Or is just, at best, really, really stupid. Both are equal crimes in my mind, punishable by my boot smashed into their testicles at high velocity.
I am glad you are able to intimidate the scary missionaries(?), though! Looking like Serious Business, or at least a stone cold bitch, is a good skill to have.
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Date: 2006-10-04 05:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-05 10:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-04 11:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-04 11:43 pm (UTC)Really, I should be more scared than I was...but then, it's been a long time since I let myself be scared rather than angry at things like that.