Run-in with homophobic neighbor

[Moony]

Originally Posted by dissention

She said "Maybelline, looks so pretty on my eyes
Never change, never clump..."

But it's not waterproof
It's running down to the floor
And taking with it all
Of my rouge and lipstick!

[dissention]

Originally Posted by Moony

But it's not waterproof
It's running down to the floor
And taking with it all
Of my rouge and lipstick!

Hold on, a tissue's comin'
Yet it stayed caked on for days
And I will stay up at night, all the time
I'll apply it anywhere - anyway - anyway

[Moony]

I suck at this, I concede to the lyrical master.

[Brwn_eyes0511]

Originally Posted by dissention

Hold on, a tissue's comin'
Yet it stayed caked on for days
And I will stay up at night, all the time
I'll apply it anywhere - anyway - anyway

Wasn’t the makeup surgically put on her face?

[crylove77]

She also tells him that she read about some letter that "the homosexuals" sent to congress, saying that they're going to come into hetero couples' homes and rape the husbands in their bathtubs, and that they're going to stalk kids in movie theatres and turn them gay! She ends her rambling by saying that "they're (gays) coming to get us"!

OMG!! I needed a good laugh. What the f*ck are these people thinking?!
We just hired a new guy at our restaurant, to work in the kitchen. Well, his first day, he came in wearing a rainbow bracelet. My God, you'd think he walked up to every guy in the kitchen and slipped them all the tongue! Of course, they all banded together in the corner eyeing him like he was a vampire or something. I'm sure the comments went a little like this, in redneck-ese: "Well, I'll tell ya one thang right now. The first time he grabs my ass, he's gonna know right damn quick I ain't no ****in' fag!"
(By the way, we don't all speak like this. There's a world of difference between a southerner/southern accent and a redneck!)

Forsyth County used to have a sign that said "No Ni**ers Allowed" - Of course, the servants had a day pass. Nice and Christian weren't they

Never understood that philosophy that's it's OK to be served by a black person but they can't spend money there. Reminds me of that line from Fried Green Tomatos where Cicely Tyson is talking about the white sheriff: "Don't make no common sense, won't sit next to a colored child, but he eats eggs-shoot right out a chicken's ass!"

I'm sure she was raised in a totally different time era. My grandmother doesn't agree with mixed marriages or anything of that nature. When she tells me about family members or friends, I just nod because I don't wanna argue with my 82 year old Nanny. Of course, I don't believe what she does, but I know she was raised back in the teens-20's and 30's. She ain't gonna change her mind about anything. I love and respect her, but I don't have to agree with her.

My grandmother's like that too. I recently took her on a trip from North Carolina to her home state of Kentucky. It was a looooong ride. When she starts in on 'the blacks' and 'the gays', I gotta just toon her out. My mom told me the other day what she said: "You know, I don't think Angie likes some of the things I say. When I start to talk, she just keeps turning that radio up." I thought I was being more subtle than that.
She also had high hopes that my uncle, my father's brother, would marry one of her daughters, so he could be an 'official' member of the family...until she found out he was gay. She still has high hopes though, that he will 'turn back', as she calls it.

[sparky]

Wow. If my neighbor came at me like that, Katie bar the door. Your husband gets points for restraint. I wouldn't have used aggressive violent language. Never. But trust me, I have to tell people to go get themselves f*cked on the phone all the time. And they never know until they hung up what I really meant. A taped conversation would sound like I was the most polite, professional man on earth. Studio heads and expensive attorneys would have to listen to the tapes and I cannot incriminate myself. Your husband has the patience of Job.

[stargazer99]

Originally Posted by sparky

Wow. If my neighbor came at me like that, Katie bar the door. Your husband gets points for restraint. I wouldn't have used aggressive violent language. Never. But trust me, I have to tell people to go get themselves f*cked on the phone all the time. And they never know until they hung up what I really meant. A taped conversation would sound like I was the most polite, professional man on earth. Studio heads and expensive attorneys would have to listen to the tapes and I cannot incriminate myself. Your husband has the patience of Job.

Believe me, I wouldn't have been as restrained as my husband! But it was probably a good thing it was him rather than me who had to deal with her. I tend to get very emotional in situations like that, and she probably would have left there thinking I'd proved her point about nasty old liberals! My husband is used to dealing with people like that, and he doesn't want to give them the satisfaction of "proving their point" about "people like him".