nuc65
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Welcome and glad to have your input!
Welcome and glad to have your input!
Hey.... me too. It must be why no one seems to want to bother me while OC."crowded in an elevator with gun nuts that looked the part with stringy greasy hair, unshaven, thin, dark and tall"
- Hey I resemble that remark!
Did he really say he was scared by people who were "dark"?? If so, I might have suggested such a racially motivated remark wouldn't have been acceptable to us. I would have agreed that people who looked scraggly and unkempt are bad examples. *** For this year's Lobby Day, we all need to keep this in mind, and dress respectably in our General Assembly. ***crowded in an elevator with gun nuts that looked the part with stringy greasy hair, unshaven, thin, dark and tall. Scary too him.
In speaking with this man for an hour I believe he meant 'dark' as in as in personality, intent or purpose as garnered from the discussion. The subject of race did not come up.nuc65 wrote:Did he really say he was scared by people who were "dark"?? If so, I might have suggested such a racially motivated remark wouldn't have been acceptable to us. I would have agreed that people who looked scraggly and unkempt are bad examples. *** For this year's Lobby Day, we all need to keep this in mind, and dress respectably in our General Assembly. ***crowded in an elevator with gun nuts that looked the part with stringy greasy hair, unshaven, thin, dark and tall. Scary too him.
It appears that nuc65 handled himself very well. Well enough that a man who initially had very negative first impression ended up having a civil conversation with him for an hour. One assumes the man stopped feeling intimidated or angry if he spent that much time talking to a stranger. Nicely done!!
But did you tell him about OCDO, VCDL & Lobby Day?OCed tonight at Neighbor's Place for dinner with friends and then at the Walgreen's on Timberlake. After leaving Walgreen's we headed over to WalMart where we did a bit of shopping and I got a blow up bed for our trip this weekend. Also got myself a new RC helicopter and happened to notice another OCer back in the electronics area. I let him know it was good to see someone else carrying openly, he agreed and we headed out with no issues, just as expected.