Bullshit Seeking Missile
Working in a bookstore you get all types that come in, I’ve had the normal ones, the obviously disturbed ones, the parents who can’t seem to control a 4 year old child, teenagers who hang around the Manga section for hours on end, and then there’s the worst kind – the loud, hate filled political ones.
They are the ones that for some reason or another, usually it is completely unconnected to anything you are talking to them about, suddenly make a very loud, vocal political statement that is so far off the deep end that you feel compelled to either try to ignore it entirely and pray that they don’t follow up with another comment or shoot them down where they stand with a well placed bullshit seeking missile.
The latest happened just yesterday. As workdays go it wasn’t a good or a bad day, it was just kind of there. I was helping a woman look up some romance novel that she was looking for when one of the girls in the cafe came on the PA system to make an announcement about a coffee special that they had upstairs.
For no reason at all this customer that I am helping says, “Oh my GOD! Whoever that is she sounds just as irritating as that little BITCH that is running for Vice President!”
“Really?” I replied, my retaliation systems already kicking in, “I don’t think she sounds like Joe Biden at all, but that could be me.”
I could tell by the look on her face she was stunned speechless. Guess she didn’t expect to find a Conservative in California.
Yea, the BS missile never misses.
