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August 31, 2006
Oh dear
This amusing letter showed up in Dear Prudence today:
Dear Prudie,
My partner and I are having our condominium remodeled. We have worked well with one company and asked them to bid a second phase of the job. The person who showed up to bid the job wore a cap with an angry bald eagle on the front with multiple American flags sewn onto the rest of the cap. When I was obviously startled at the hat, he acknowledged, "Guess I should have worn my company hat." I replied, "I would be more comfortable if you had because I can't support much of what the country is doing right now." This led to his reply, "Just so we all support America." My partner and I are gay and feel assaulted by the right wing. We are also horrified by the war in Iraq and so many other issues that our patriotism is very low. That hat was a sickening reminder of my childhood in rural America. I feel that perhaps my money should be spent in a more socially conscious fashion, but I don't relish starting my own campaign of reverse discrimination. Am I making too much of this incident? The company has done a good job for us so far.
—Uneasy Remodeler
Now we all know I'm a fairly liberal fellow, but I'd have a pretty hard time rejecting someone who does good work for me because he wears a tacky hat. If I start getting rid of people because I happen to disagree with their political views, not only would I have no friends, but I'd probably be as bad the people who are trying to blow up all of us.
Posted by oz115 at August 31, 2006 09:30 AM
Comments
Dude, the poor bastard was just being Patriotic. I HATE people who hate America and constantly bash it. If these two gay fellows are THAT dissatisfied with the USA, may I suggest they pack up and move to Canada, France or maybe Iran? Either way, this country doesn't have space for losers like that.
PS.... think either of those guys enlisted in the armed services to defend our freedoms? Nope... they sure didn't.
Posted by: Christy at September 2, 2006 02:47 PM