Marc
Atlanta, GA
I got the chance to talk current events today with two movers that I had the pleasure of working with, and it's probably the funniest shit I've heard come out of people's mouths in a long time. We'll preface it by saying that neither of the two guys was extremely bright, and that's not a rip necessarily, more just kind of a statement of fact. They were kind of dim-witted, but we got to talking initially about John Walker-Lindh and how they had heard that people were trying to say that he should be set free. True. Very true. I had just read, the day before, the Harper's article talking about the scenarios surrounding that argument and was able to kind of fill the gaps in for them. They mainly focused on how he was a "damn foreigner-wannabe" and should've been shot on sight. Reasonable reaction. Not at all out of the norm in these times. I let them know about coercion, and the Miranda rights of the prisoner, and reminded them that Walker-Lindh was an American citizen and does still have rights just like me and you, and that jurisprudence in his case suggests that his confession may not be entirely legal (ie - given the circumstances, ie - the 50 mile hike through mountains on retreat from an advancing army, the imprisonment, the prison uprising, the wounds, the cold water that he almost drowned in, the days of questioning he suffered at the hands of the US special forces, etc). I, in no way, have figured out what I think about this guy, but it was hilarious listening to these guys, one of whom kept calling me "Dude" and saying "Word up, dude, word up" whenever I gave a suggestion as to how to go about our job, try to reason everything out.
From there we moved to the Catholic priest crisis, and idea that, yes, maybe priests should be allowed to marry, cause, you know, going through life without at least some sex (as I have so amply proven) is hard to do. One of the men, this guy named Milton who looked like he was 25 but was actually 50!, started telling me that, had he gone into the priesthood, he'd be all up into some freaky shit, dude ... "Damn man, you'd find me on a couch talking to a cat telling him how much I fucking love him, and then I'd probably fuck the damn thing, man, cause, shit, if I ain't never had no sex before, how the hell 'm I supposed to know what the hell I'm supposed to feel about it? Damn, dude! No sex! Hell yeah you'd be into some freaky shit!" I think that was the basic jist of it.
He also mentioned that he went to Catholic school as a youngster and was contemplating "coming out" and telling the police that he, too, was molested by a priest in his childhood. Of course, he also followed this statement up by saying that it was totally false, but "fuck it, man! I coul' walk away with a coupla' million dollars, man! Shit, call me a fag, but I'm a fag with a million dollars, man! Shit!"
Ah. The brighter sides of life. This was probably one of the best working days I've had in a long, long time.
Atlanta, GA
I got the chance to talk current events today with two movers that I had the pleasure of working with, and it's probably the funniest shit I've heard come out of people's mouths in a long time. We'll preface it by saying that neither of the two guys was extremely bright, and that's not a rip necessarily, more just kind of a statement of fact. They were kind of dim-witted, but we got to talking initially about John Walker-Lindh and how they had heard that people were trying to say that he should be set free. True. Very true. I had just read, the day before, the Harper's article talking about the scenarios surrounding that argument and was able to kind of fill the gaps in for them. They mainly focused on how he was a "damn foreigner-wannabe" and should've been shot on sight. Reasonable reaction. Not at all out of the norm in these times. I let them know about coercion, and the Miranda rights of the prisoner, and reminded them that Walker-Lindh was an American citizen and does still have rights just like me and you, and that jurisprudence in his case suggests that his confession may not be entirely legal (ie - given the circumstances, ie - the 50 mile hike through mountains on retreat from an advancing army, the imprisonment, the prison uprising, the wounds, the cold water that he almost drowned in, the days of questioning he suffered at the hands of the US special forces, etc). I, in no way, have figured out what I think about this guy, but it was hilarious listening to these guys, one of whom kept calling me "Dude" and saying "Word up, dude, word up" whenever I gave a suggestion as to how to go about our job, try to reason everything out.
From there we moved to the Catholic priest crisis, and idea that, yes, maybe priests should be allowed to marry, cause, you know, going through life without at least some sex (as I have so amply proven) is hard to do. One of the men, this guy named Milton who looked like he was 25 but was actually 50!, started telling me that, had he gone into the priesthood, he'd be all up into some freaky shit, dude ... "Damn man, you'd find me on a couch talking to a cat telling him how much I fucking love him, and then I'd probably fuck the damn thing, man, cause, shit, if I ain't never had no sex before, how the hell 'm I supposed to know what the hell I'm supposed to feel about it? Damn, dude! No sex! Hell yeah you'd be into some freaky shit!" I think that was the basic jist of it.
He also mentioned that he went to Catholic school as a youngster and was contemplating "coming out" and telling the police that he, too, was molested by a priest in his childhood. Of course, he also followed this statement up by saying that it was totally false, but "fuck it, man! I coul' walk away with a coupla' million dollars, man! Shit, call me a fag, but I'm a fag with a million dollars, man! Shit!"
Ah. The brighter sides of life. This was probably one of the best working days I've had in a long, long time.
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