Sorry, my country's at stake. If people don't like what I say and then they don't have to talk to me. I'm ok with that. (I'm telling you ladies this menopause thing isn't is bad as they make it out to be. I care give a rat's ass what anyone thinks of me and I say it's about time! Don't give me a pill, I kinda like here!)

The night after the election I went into a bar with my husband. It was crowded so we sat at the bar. I hadn't eaten the whole day. I ate the day my died dad, ok. I remember being hungry at hospice. I couldn't eat the day after the election and of course I had a couple of drinks before I ordered dinner. The guy next to me had voted for Bush. It was obvious. He was decent but clueless. The ones we need to reach. We talked for a while and he was trying to reassure me that it would be alright. I think he was moved by how upset I really was. We talked about our kids, the environment, homophobia, education. We had similar ideas. He just didn't want to pay more taxes and many people think that dems will raise their taxes. I turned to him finally and said, "I'm a liberal, are you afraid of me? Huh, huh, are ya, are ya, are ya? Boo! BE afraid, be very afraid." I said it a couple of time. The guy just looked at my husband and kind of smiled, like you poor guy. My husband was just as despondent as I was, so we just left. But, yeah, I get in people's faces. I am an east coast girl living in the mid west and sometimes I really think God put me here to wake a few people up!

By the way that guy said something to me that night that I hope we both still think about. I still see him from time to time and he just looks at me and smiles and I say hi kind of sheepishly. I want to say BOO! to him so bad you can't imagine, but I behave. I got my point across, why let him think I really am crazy?

Anyway,
he was from Ohio originally and that night, the night after the election he said to me he couldn't believe that Ohio went for Bush. He just couldn't believe it. Everyone he had talked to was hurting money wise and was going for Kerry. I dismissed it that night, but I have thought about it very often since then.

Let's hope he has, too.