Recap of my experiences on January 20th - more in detail [View All]

oh man. i have to tell you guys some of this shit. the first sign i saw walking into the crowd was a Free Republic sign. :puke: when i saw it i yelled PUKE! lol

once we got to the parade, we all kind of separated and i ended up stopping to stay in this one place by myself where there were protesters. somehow some Bush supporters got mingled in with us, and two of them were young guys about my age or younger - the one looked just like Joe Scarborough but about 20 years younger (does Joe have a son? if so it was prob. him!!)
Anyway, they kept trying to start arguments with the protesters, trying to get them to get mad - they just wouldn't stop, then some lady in front of me told all the protesters to stop listening to them because she thought they were 'plants' sent there to incite violence. to be honest i think they were too. so one of them was arguing with this other girl about the Iraq war, and i got so annoyed i told him 'don't you want to watch your Presidents parade? your President's coming, quit arguing with people!' then he told me i was rude :( then that one lady kept shouting that he was a plant, so he kept saying really loud 'oh yeah guys, i'm a plant. uh huh ok, blah blah, just kept saying it over and over, he said "SO, THESE GUYS HAVE DECIDED THAT I'M A PLANT". and i said 'NO, we decided you are an idiot'. then ppl started laughing and he finally STFU and didn't argue anymore. w00t! lol

Then there was this girl with her Dad (she was about 20) - i knew just looking at them they were there for Bush. After the parade started, and all the protesters started chanting, etc - she threw a tantrum and started flipping out, almost crying, and told her dad she wanted to leave and she's like "if they hate him so much then why are they here!!!!!" then her dad walked off with her - not sure where she went, but he came back by himself.

A girl next to me had a "Boxer for President" sign, and that same guy (the girl's dad) said real loud, 'shes the worst Senator this country ever had!!!' :puke: :eyes:

so then the motorcade started coming - i turned my back for a second or two then i was like scew that - i want to look right at them and tell them how i feel. haha, so just turned back around and looked right into all the windows as they went by and just went BOO BOO BOO with my thumbs down. lol i prob. looked like a retard but goddamn it felt good!!

i didn't stay much longer after that. i met back up with the people i went with (danostuporstar and three ladies from Oregon). instead of going back home with them, i got off the metro in Chinatown and met up with DU'ers and some other VERY interesting people. I drank so freaking much....what the hell was i thinking....i was so drunk, but so tired at the same time from walking around all day - man, and in the end, i didn't even have to pay for it :o A very generous person we all know took care of everyone ;). Then, to top it off, we went over to the Billionaires for Bush Counter-Inaugural and drank some more - i wanted to dance but i was so damn tired, and i think i kept singing all the wrong words to this one song and i felt like an idiot :eyes:

Mr. Scorpio and EstimatedProphet walked with me back to the Metro Station (if they didn't i would have ended up LOST!) - i got back to Dan's safe and passed out as soon as i walked in the door.