Eventually it becomes my turn.<\/p>\n
I said in a recent blog, (Muslim Hypersensitivity), that if you wake up in the morning and set out to find something that you deem offensive, chances are you will find it.\u00a0 I ran into the Millennial Generation version of that just last night.<\/p>\n
My wife and I stopped in at Two22, a local brewery\/bar.\u00a0 We hadn\u2019t been there in quite some time, but they\u2019d recently sent me an email coupon good for a free beer. We stopped in, did the expected \u201cwhere have you been\u201d stares with the server behind the bar and saddled up by two empty seats.\u00a0 There was a couple on the right side of the seats, and a female on the left.\u00a0 Without any surprise I saw that she was flipping threw her phone like some gay French King (exaggerated swiping motions).\u00a0 I walked up, slid the chair out a little to gain entry, and said my customary ice-breaker line that I\u2019ve used countless times when you invade the empty space they may have been accustomed to seconds before.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re not gonna be a problem, are you?\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a joke.\u00a0 We\u2019re in a bar.\u00a0 Sometimes people drink too much in bars.\u00a0 Then they become overly (anything).\u00a0 But their response usually gives an indication to their mood and level of intoxication.\u00a0 I used it just last week and another bar.\u00a0 They guy, without missing a beat, replied, \u201cNow, or later?\u201d\u00a0 Very witty.\u00a0 He got it.\u00a0 And he wasn\u2019t a problem then or later.<\/p>\n
The woman was young, probably in the lower half of her mid-twenties.\u00a0 She had long, straight brown hair pulled back into a horse tail looking mass.\u00a0 She was wearing modest clothes, and had on brown framed glasses that dominated what you saw looking at her face.\u00a0 To pare it down to a single word, I would call her \u201cfrumpy\u201d.\u00a0 Her response was a curt \u201cNo\u201d.<\/p>\n
We sat down, started sampling small tasters of the beers they\u2019d recently released.\u00a0 I never gave the girl another thought nor said anything more to her. After a few sips, I noticed she wasn\u2019t there anymore and thought she had left.<\/p>\n
Probably 20-30 minutes later, it wasn\u2019t long as I had just finished my first beer; she came up behind us and began asking just what exactly I\u2019d meant by that question (if she was going to be a problem).\u00a0 I told her it was a joke, that I say it all the time when taking a seat.\u00a0 She stated that she was offended by it, didn\u2019t see the humor at all in it, and wanted an apology.<\/p>\n
I knew I had just run into a Millennial high on the latest popular drug \u201coutrage\u201d.\u00a0 I looked at her and said, \u201cI\u2019m sorry that you feel that way.\u201d\u00a0 Clearly not the apology that she was looking for, but also as clear that she wasn\u2019t going to get anything more like one.\u00a0 I turned my back on her.<\/p>\n
Beth kept talking, trying to get the girl to see that she was over reacting to nothing.\u00a0 Beth mentioned that we are from different generations, to which the girl contradicted saying that we were not.\u00a0 We\u2019re old enough to be her unfortunate parents, so clearly, we are.\u00a0 Eventually she stated that \u201cThis was an issue.\u201d\u00a0 I turned back to her and said,<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, and it\u2019s your issue.\u00a0 Now, move along.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked down the bar and saw the server was talking to another couple at the far end of the bar, by the entry door.\u00a0 The female of that couple was looking right at me, wide-eyed, and making circular motions by her head with her index finger.\u00a0 The classic, coo coo for cocoa puffs, bat-shit crazy hand signal.<\/p>\n
Frumpy returned to what I learned was her new seat by the other couple and was frantically gesturing in our direction.\u00a0 The server tried to offer her a free drink coupon but she just patted the bar with her palm and stormed out, no doubt feeling justified in finding something to be outraged about.<\/p>\n
Caiti, the server, came down to us.\u00a0 I asked what was said.\u00a0 Caiti said that Frumpy had complained about what I said, and also that I had \u201ctouched her leg\u201d.\u00a0 There it is, the #metoo sexual assault ingredient.\u00a0 Caiti said that she explained to Frumpy that we\u2019d been coming there for 5 years, were both retired military, and meant no offense whatsoever.\u00a0 That Caiti wasn\u2019t going to do anything like throw us out or anything more severe was why she left.<\/p>\n
It was for us, a comical end to an otherwise good evening.\u00a0 But, just in case.\u00a0 If you ever happen to read this, Miss Frumpy, you could be so lucky for me to touch your leg either me by myself, or in the company of my wife.\u00a0 For that matter, the fact that I didn\u2019t<\/em><\/strong> touch your leg might be the catalyst for your childish outburst.\u00a0 It likely isn\u2019t the primary ingredient in your immature psychosis.\u00a0 That is likely to be \u201can issue\u201d with your Daddy.\u00a0 I suggest you seek a counselor in a safe space where you can be reassured in soft cooing voices while you pet a puppy.\u00a0 Or you could just grow up.\u00a0 I\u2019m doubting you\u2019ll grow up.<\/p>\n That\u2019s the future of our country, folks.\u00a0 The offended.\u00a0 Makes me glad to be almost 60.\u00a0 I won\u2019t have to watch the utter destruction of our culture and country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eventually it becomes my turn. I said in a recent blog, (Muslim Hypersensitivity), that if you wake up in the morning and set out to find something that you deem offensive, chances are you will find it.\u00a0 I ran into the Millennial Generation version of that just last night. My wife and I stopped in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}