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Assault and Batteries
“ADIOS,” she said, through her mask.
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Where is your two metre bubble if you’re stood in a breeze? Folk don’t think these things through very well.
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Forgive me rob, but that went over my early morning head. Just wrote to M.
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I always assumed that anyone who has the gumption to get up early and run would be pleasant to encounter. How did this bad apple get into the wrong group? My guess is she is normally a gym person and isn’t happy to be in the fresh air.
I hope she heard your ‘adios’ while trying to figure out which way to put her batteries back in.
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Yes, good point. The gyms are still all closed. I had never seen her before. It was smart of me to hightail it out of there since, there was no one else around, and that pigeon, as attentive as he was, I’m pretty sure knew no martial arts. 🙂
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Don’t you understand, she owns the place when she is out and about. Center of the universe material right there. How dare you invade her 80 foot wide bubble!
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This is why I should never own a firearm. She really pissed me off since, at that time of the morning, peace is expected. It’s why I go out so early. Her boobs alone, were an intrusion.
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As somebody else commented, I think, who gets up that early and gets out and exercises with a bad attitude. That’s when, as you say, peace is expected.
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As a runner, I know you understand, that one hour of grace that belongs to you, and to you alone. It’s kept me sane during this PANDAMMIT, DAMMIT!!! 🙂
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Hi Susannah
I know you can take care of yourself, but I always worry when I hear you are out and about that early in the morning in the park alone.
Be careful, there are some crazy folk out there, and the quarantine is only make them crazier. Even the non-crazy (like me) are having their moments.
Blessings to you! ♥♥
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This is true. Bad behavior, run wild. There are other people out, though today I was earlier than usual, so I don’t know, maybe there’s Disco Running I knew nothing about. That was the other thing, the screech of loud music at 5:30 a.m. There should be a law, or an amendment to disturbing the peace, but besides all that, I’ll just take those blessings, thank you very much. 🙂
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How dare they have Disco Running and not invite you the Queen of the Park?? 😉
I couldn’t agree with you more as far as the loud music. Just today at 7:30 am as I was walking to work a car passed by me with the sound so obnoxiously loud I wished he would get a ticket for it. I actually yelled at the driver and I am not even one to pick a fight.
Blessings are never too much so I am sending you more 🙂 ♥♥♥
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I’m running around with a big basket to put them in. 🙂
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I’m with you on the firearm. I think we ought to pass a law where a person like this gets a custard pie in the face when they least expect it. Also, anyone with a unit that can spit out batteries ought to be arrested for abuse of power.
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Or a big squirt of water, like on the Bozo show. 🙂
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My buddies and I used to spray seltzer water on cars next to us at the stop light. The trick was to stay a little back and spray over the top onto the windshield. The laugh part came in when the other driver turned on his wipers and looked skyward to try and spot the rain clouds. Sorry for the story but your comment brought back a memory.
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But isn’t that good, to evoke a memory? Sounds to me that you were quite the rascal John.
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I was raised in Detroit. Yes, I was a rascal, Susannah. Remained so for as long as I could pull it off. I think when I turned 70 the rascal in me retired.
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But that’s quote a run. You were the Old Calcutta, of rascals. 🙂
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I guess it could even be said, Oh! Calcutta. I do like the Old Calcutta reference. Has an “aged well” connotation.😊
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Yes, or like good cheese, or wine. 🙂
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There you go. I think of myself as a wedge of stilton cheese. (Room temperature) 😁
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That, a chuck of baguette and an apple, is my idea of a Hot Time in the old Town Tonight, to quote TR’s presidential theme song.
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I’m with you. I love cheese, pate, fruit, and bagette.
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On a blanket, in shorts.
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The only way.
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What burns my ass about these people, and I am being generous by using people and not heathens, is that she no doubt saw you put your mask up AND swerve out of her way. Was Laverne of the big tits wearing her mask or just carrying a ridiculous boombox that should be outlawed on any runner’s path – especially at such an early hour?
If you had helped her pick up her batteries, I swear I would have gone down there and smacked you silly… ADIOS was the appropriate response.
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She didn’t evoke empathy in me at all, which is unusual. I think I’ve just had it with the Pandammit across the board. You’re not relaxed when you go out. I move like a thief stealing that hour hoping to not run into anyone. It’s as though our emotional feedom has been hijacked. The mask business that I get, makes you want to stay in. It’s 100 degrees. As stupid and trite as it sounds…how the fuck did this happen?
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How could she? Nothing you have described about her, would. The Pandammit (by the way, I use this all the time now, giving you credit) is such a strain on everyone. You’d think more people would have more empathy but no… they are so much all about themselves that they can’t see it’s GLOBAL. How the fuck did this happen indeed? And why in the blessed fuck are you running in 100 degree weather?
We finally got a break in the heat and humidity today. For the next week we are “only” going to be in the mid-eighties, positively balmy compared to the stink you guys are having.
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At 5ish, it’s cooler. The humidity seems to flare up at around 9. At the moment, you could fry an egg on the sidewalk.
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It must be. Cooler – ish. Ugh. Brutal this heat and humidity.
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Let’s just say, masks and mugginess do not play well.
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Oh gawd no. We, since Saturday, must wear masks everywhere (about fucking time) so when I leave my canteen hut that I work in to go get more ingredients or whatever, I have to put it back on, just in case I encounter a co-worker.
I refuse to bitch and moan about it. I will continue wearing it in public.
We need to work together to get a handle on this.
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Agreed. Mewling is a waste of energy since, there’s no other alternative. I’m grateful I can zoom in and out. My heart goes out to those who have to wear them at an 8 hour stretch.
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It is. And yes. I look at the poor cooks and waitstaff where I work and thank my lucky stars I’m in my little room.
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🙂
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Methinks the masks are affecting the blood flow to people’s brains to enough of a degree that the stupid shit they say at least has some justification. But seriously, what in the blessed fuck is up with people?
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It’s getting to everyone, and there’s no normalcy in sight. And the heat doesn’t help. I’ll tell ya Mr. Imma.
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The heat doesn’t play fair with the sense, frazzled as they already are.
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Yeah, and there’s no relief in sight, the temps stickin around like unwanted house guests. sigh
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The mayflies have been out in force the last few nights. It’s like one big dance party for the critters. Further adding to that “end of the world” feeling.
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We need to think of happier things, like baseball. 🙂
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Which begins manana. Signs of normal life . . . so close
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How so? Here we’re still at half throttle. Fatalities are down, but so are places of business.
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I don’t know that they finish the season, but here again . . I didn’t think they would start one. It was odd, watching the highlights of that game.
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WE DON’T KNOW NOTHIN. 🙂
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We really don’t. LOL
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I just got that. DUH…need coffee.
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Nah. And did you catch any highlights of the Yankees game? No fans, cardboard cutouts and canned noise. This is the strangest year.
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Yeah, it all blows like a bugle when you’re trying to sleep. THIS TOO SHALL PASS. When I read Mitt Romney said, he thinks you know who will get reelected, I almost had a drink. A fellow AAer I called instead of the liquor store said so eloquently…NOBADY KNOWS NOTHIN. I found great comfort in that.
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Yeah I want James Carville to shut his trap right about now He keeps going around saying 45 might drop out rather than be embarrassed in a national election. And I can’t help thinking back to 2016, when Hilary had an “insurmountable” lead and was going to win in a historic landslide according to many pundits.
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Someone just mentioned that to me. I had totally forgotten, so the bottom line is, anything could happen. It would just amaze me though, but the country is insane in too many ways presently.
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Insanity is a good word. Disjointed and fractured . . those too. And we have an individual in office who possesses no desire to change that, as it’s the reason he has his power in the first place. How sad.
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I can’t believe he’ll get reelected. A friend said, he’ll steal it…do whatever he has to do to win ,making the Bush/Gore thievery a Milton Bradley game.
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He has already proclaimed that he will not accept the results unless he is re-elected. King Trump has spoken.
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He’s so insane.
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He wants to be on Rushmore. He seriously does.
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George, Teddy, Abe, Tom would all climb down in protest.
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And just to show you that ANY poll can be worked up like a Kardashian, there was a poll in which 53 percent of the respondents believe Trump is a better President than Abe.
What? Meet The Fuck!
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OMIGOD, THIS IS WHEN I SO WISH I WAS STILL DRINKING.
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This is when I walk in a liquor store and tell the clerk, I’ll take it.
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I so get that.
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We can go halfsies if you ever decide to come back to the dark side.
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Perhaps I’ll pack.
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Boom
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Sounds like she would have freaked out even more if you had tried to help her. Everyone is crazy these days, it seems.
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This is so true. The other day, in Bed Bath & Beyond, a Latina lady who didn’t have her mask on, was NICELY told by a polite worker to please put it on. Well, she went off the rails…YOU’RE TARGETING MY PEOPLE…BLAH BLAH BLAH. Witnessing this I say, “A dignified man of color just asked you to obey a rule, so is he targeting his own people? She flounced from the store like a misplaced dolphin. The poor kid was so upset. I told him he did fine. He then said, ma’am, your nose is showing, and no, I didn’t accuse him of targeting my people. 🙂
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Running into these “Karen types” are enough to make those of us who use the early morning hours to console our spirits more than just a tad cranky. Normally I’m a cheerful sort since I love and appreciate the early morning peacefulness but these kind of people really make my cheese fall off its cracker. Grrr.
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What a great expression. 🙂
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😇
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Kinda says it all, without sounding mean. An art.
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Thanks, but it’s meant to be more of a blunt head smack. These kinds of people are pretty much incapable of subtle. There is no way to communicate with the clueless and sadly they’re multiplying by the minute these days. I want to ask if they don’t have some sourdough bread that needs to be baked. Then I remembered how many people are packing and just roll my eyes.
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One tries to give leeway because of the state of things, but the fear factor comes in many shapes and sizes. I keep mine at a reasonable level but know, others are losing their minds.
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Most of the Karens lost their minds back in April. Those of us who are now exposed to them with daily regularity are starting to become just a tad pixxed. *sigh
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I know, this thing is unhinging everyone. There’s a woman on my floor who runs every time she sees me, like I’m a leper. It’s because I go out all the time. I do, I refuse to live my life hermetically sealed. Other people lived through all kinds of disease before there were vaccines. We can too, taking mightier precautions then our predecessors ever did. My 2 cents.
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We’ve been über programmed to respond to both fear and bullying. If people would follow the recommendations (mask, physical distancing and frequent hand washing) we might be able to get through this a whole lot quicker. It seemed to work pretty well for many European countries and the Far East.
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We’re a stubborn, ornery lot, that’s for sure.
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And will pay for it too.
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Let’s be hopeful, despite it.
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🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
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