Overheard this morning…

I woke up at 0 dark 30 and decided to go try to get a pic of San Diego across the bay, since it was dead flat calm.  While I was trying that, a 20something young thing came in and parked her little BMW convertible in the parking lot adjacent to where I was standing and got out and started stretching.

I had noticed an older man walking down the sidewalk and smoking a cigarette. As he got closer, I heard the 20something huff and mumble something under her breath.  As the old man got even with her, she snapped (words to the effect) “You need to put that cigarette out, you’re OFFENDING me.”

I turned around at that, and heard him say, “Don’t care, I’m not bothering you.”

She went off on a rant about how ‘she’ was concerned about her health and he ‘owed’ it to her to not poison her atmosphere with smoke, and he needed to be more considerate.

He just looked at her and said (words to the effect), “Missy, I really don’t give two s**ts in a handbasket for what you want or don’t want.  I’m 91 years old, I was in three wars to defend this country, and I did it to preserve the freedoms we enjoy today.  And one of ‘my’ freedoms is damn well to be able to smoke a damn cigarette on a public sidewalk when I want to.   You can take your political correctness and bulls**t and stick it up your scrawny ass.”  Pointing with the hand with the cigarette in it, he continued, “YOU are offending me with your attitude and whiney little voice, and I’m betting your parents never whipped your ass in your life. You don’t like my smoking, leave!”

She just stood there with her mouth open for probably 30 seconds and then burst out crying, ran to her car and burned out of the parking lot.  I just started applauding the old man…

He just chuckled and said, “Piss on em all.  My old lady won’t let me smoke in the house, and the hotels out here don’t either; so I was already in bad mood, and she just capped it all off.”

We chatted for about 15 minutes, come to find out he was in the tail end of the Iwo Jima landings, Korea and Vietnam and retired with 32 years active as an E-9 in the Marine Corps.  He also said he’d had both knees and both hips replaced, and he was damn glad he’d gotten it done before now.  He was very critical of the current state of affairs, and said he hadn’t done what he had during his career to have the country end up where it is today…

Which brought this one to mind-

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Apparently he and his wife are in town to attend a combined family reunion and 60th wedding anniversary for he and his wife.

I wished him well and thanked him for his service, and walked back to my hotel still smiling…

And I jumped on email and got this one from JP…

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And with IRS enforcement… sigh…

Comments

Overheard this morning… — 21 Comments

  1. BZ and Simper FI old dude.

    I’m a non-smoker but I don’t tread on others right to coat their lungs. It is a matter of personal choice (and an addictive habit) but if I am where the smoke bothers me, I have no problem moving or just sucking it up for a few minutes.

  2. Kinda makes me wonder just which one of my neighbors is out there that ya ran into LOL

  3. LL- Yep, and this ol’ boy didn’t give a rats ass…

    WSF/PH- 😀

    CP- Yeah, she wasn’t doing EITHER…

    Keads- Agreed!

    Murph- 🙂

    FD- Oh trust me, this was the proverbial priviledged little spoiled rotten CA type…

    mrs. C- One hopes!!!

  4. Oh thats apparent NFO , I was speaking to the plain spoken old man LOL

  5. That is awesome! I wished you had snapped a pic of her face when he said that.
    So did you ever get the pic of San Diego across the bay?

  6. Great post!
    I had something like that happen at the little branch library up in Mission Hills on Washington St a few years ago. I walked down and was looking at the selection and got to talking to an old geezer, like me, and we were talking about what an adventure it was to have idiots electing communists, green policies, national politics, local zoning changes and other matters that appeal to two old veterans and this girl behind us kept whistling louder and louder and then saying, “Oh Bullsh@t!” louder and louder and we both turned to her and told her to shut up. It was as if nobody had ever told her to grow up in her entire life. She couldn’t believe that we had a right to our own opinions.

  7. WN- Yep it was…

    FD- Oh… sorry, 😉

    Ed- Yep!

    Mark- Feel free!

    JUGM- Nope, no pic and no pic of her either… it was too dark.

    Tim- Feel free

    Julie- I just applauded… 😀

    Curtis- Good on ya for doing that! Thank you!!!

  8. I needed that! Thanks Old NFO!

    Down in the dumpster today with the Virginny results. VA went Full Full Full RETARD yesterday. My 2A rights are going to be under full assault, and the ninnies who elected these statists will be having buyers remorse in about 6 months or so. Taxes will be going up, and with the AG probably being a dhimmi, my gun rights are as good as gone. George Mason’s remains (the author of the VA Constitution back in 1775, who put in the 2A for VA, and the model for the 2A in the US Constitution) are spinning hard today. I really don’t want to move, because our families are close by. But I will if I have to, because I refuse to be a slave. I prefer “Dangerous Freedom” over Peaceful Slavery.

  9. Some mornings it pays to get up early. Other mornings you find a winning lottery ticket.

    Then there’s the morning that you had.

    Thanks for writing this one. I am officially cheered up.