Run-in with homophobic neighbor

[Moony]

Originally Posted by dissention

I see you haven't found Jesus yet, you heathen.

Get out of my face Tammy Faye.

[dissention]

Originally Posted by Moony

Get out of my face Tammy Faye.

Why? Afraid you'll get caught in my lashes? It would serve you right.

[Moony]

Originally Posted by dissention

Why? Afraid you'll get caught in my lashes? It would serve you right.

Drowndin'
in the sea of mascara...
my face is stuck
inside the clumps...

[dissention]

Originally Posted by Moony

Drowndin'
in the sea of mascara...
my face is stuck
inside the clumps...

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

[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.

[markolas]

Originally Posted by wondergirl9847

I live in Fort Worth...North Texas. Have you been to Texas? You should come on over and check it out.

I'm scared to leave Austin.

[markolas]

Originally Posted by dissention

I'd make like Brit Hume's son and stick a gun in my mouth.

I continue to be amazed that I survived adolesence in North Louisiana without at least attempting suicide.

[stargazer99]

Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

Wow, bless you for sticking to your guns in Texas! No, that pun wasn't intended! I can't believe the nerve of that woman, ugh! And that story she told, do people really believe that BS? Jeez.

There is still plenty of resistance to interracial couples. It is very sad. The last guy I dated was black and he said that he hadn't met most of the fathers of the white girls he dated. We also got some very awful looks when we went to dinner one nite, some people are just jerks.

I don't know how I would do in a red state. I have that feeling the sky is falling already, I think I would figure it was the end of the world.

Thank you!

For the most part, people don't look twice at us. But we do definitely get our share of dirty looks. Unfortunately, there still are plenty of people who think interracial couples are disgusting. The last place we lived in the Chicago area had it's fair share of narrow minded people. One time, my husband was at the grocery store with our son, who was about 2 yrs old at the time. My son is very light skinned, so many people don't realize he's mixed. Some old guy came up to my husband and said something to the effect of "It's amazing, you can take a white child out of his natural environment, and put him in a Negro environment, and he will take on the characteristics of a Negro." My husband responded "Yes, it is all about the the environment you're raised in, isn't it?" Of course, that totally went over the guys head! My husband also has had teenagers in that same grocery store walk past him and sarcastically say to him "What's up, homey?" Unbelievable!

Just goes to show, though... as much as I bitch and moan about moving from a Blue state to a Red state, it can happen anywhere! We actually got more of that type of stuff up North than we do here. But overall, politically, it is definitely way more conservative where we are now. After what happened with the old biddy yesterday, we figure having the sign in our yard may show us who the most narrow-minded people in our neighborhood are. Then we won't associate with them!

[stargazer99]

Originally Posted by dissention

I'd make like Brit Hume's son and stick a gun in my mouth.

Believe me, there are times I've been tempted!

Seriously, though, this has been a very ironic year for me...

First, Bush gets reelected, and I'm ready to pack up and move to Canada. Instead, we end up moving down here (the middle of Bush country) because my husband, who was laid off from his job 3 years ago, has been working a consulting contract down here for over a year, which he expects to last several more months. (He had been unable to find anything up North.) Since I was able to get a transfer with my job, we made the move. Then within 2 weeks after moving here, the project my husband is supposed to work on gets cancelled, and there's no other work for him, so the company ends his contract! We also discover, thanks to an article forwarded to us by a friend, that the town we chose to live in is one of the top 5 most conservative cities in the U.S.! So it's really no surprise to me that we were visited by the old biddy yesterday, and I fully expect plenty more of that before the election.

On the upside, I did find a Democrats group, and attended a meeting Saturday. I had to introduce myself during the meeting, and when I joked that I was at the meeting to meet the other 3 Democrats in the area, I was chastised and informed that there were actually 68,000 Dems in the county that had voted in the last election. Considering that I'm from Chicago, that doesn't sound like a lot. But, it was about 67,990 more than I thought there were in my county! I also got to meet the Democratic Congressional candidate for my district, that will be running in 2006. I was pretty impressed, and think he may actually have a shot at winning.

[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".