Schlotzky's Drive Thru story!

So today I had to run by my nearby Lowe's to pick up more doodads for constructing Halloween props for our major party. This was in Plano, or Repug Central.

After struggling with a giant piece of plywood and a Honda Civic (not easy, let me assure you!) I needed to grab a bit before heading back to work.

In the parking lot was a Schlotzky's so I pulled through the drive through. My purse, anointed with various Democratic buttons, sat on the seat next to me.

The employee leaned out the window and said happily, "Great button!" We started talking and I asked him if he had one. "Not yet!" he said, so I gave him one of my extras. He was excited. And said he could wear it to make his manager mad. We both laughed.

I also let him know about our showing of "Bush Family Fortunes" on Friday evening. Unfortunately, he had to work, but I told him he could tell his friends about it.

He let me know my lunch would be up in a second, so I spent that time rooting through the back seat for the little postcards advertising the movie. I finally dragged a few out to give him.

Wouldn't you know, aforementioned freeper manager came to the window with my food. And I damned sure wasn't gonna hand the cards to HER. I could tell what she'd do with em. Pinched up uber-Christian, uber-Repug face...everything about her screamed nasty.

"Could you grab the guy that was here before?" I asked.
"He's making sandwiches."
"I need to speak to him, please."
"He's got gloves on and stuff all over them."
"That doesn't matter," I replied. And when she glared at me, I said "The customer is always right...." in a sing-songy little voice.

She finally got him to come to the window. I'll be damned...he had that button pinned to his apron, and was smiling like a fool. He was even happier when I handed him the cards and said to give them to his friends.

I only hope the guy didn't get fired after I drove off! But he looked completely unconcerned.

She looked pretty pissed. But it was a great story. Even funnier is that the guy told me he was related to the Bushes through the Walker side. Poor guy!

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Pursed from too much holier-than-thou indignation.

Yup, truly righteous, she was.

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at Schlotzky's.

I'm sure the Kerry Campaign could use a caterer!

It may sound corny, but these little anecdotes are often one of the highlights of my day.

They're one of my favorite parts of DU.

Getting many perspectives, and hearing the stories so we know what's REALLY going on out there, despite what the stupid polls tell us.

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2 public school teachers (a couple) in Austin, Texas (or it might have been San Marcos-- 15 miles Southwest) got totally burned out by the creeping fascism in the schools by the late '70's, chucked it all, and started a sandwich shop.

Originally, they offered only 2 sandwiches.

so I've been addicted to the bread for well nigh 34 years.

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Thanks

It'll be down at FunAsia (right west of Richardson Square Mall) on Beltline (behind the Mervyns, facing Beltline), Friday night at 7:00 PM.

Come on out! reprehensor is here on DU as well-- send him a PM and let him know if you can make it and we'll save you a spot.

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See you Friday!

same deal--

PM one of us-- we'll be glad to have you out. reprehensor's keeping the comprehensive list of everyone, so it might be easier to PM him straight off. :-)

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And welcome to DU! :hi:

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P.S. I know what DFW is.

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Great for us vegetarians who like lunch that doesn't come already wrapped.

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What the hell happened to my sweet little happy thread? It became a morass of invective and acronyms!

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I have one as well:

I was in an audio store in Brookfield, WI last weekend exchanging my satellite receiver for one that worked. My wife and I both had our K/E pins and hats on. The guy that greeted us at the counter says, really quietly, "Time to un-select Bush, huh?" "Of course," I said.

I told him I had an extra button somewhere, but had forgotten to bring extras, so I took off my own and gave it to him. He kind of hid it away before anyone else saw it. I'm guessing his superiors must have been Shrubbers.

During the exchange, we made some political small talk, all in hushed tones. I didn't press the conversation because I felt like it might cause him trouble. Soon enough, I had my new receiver and we were heading for the car.

About the time we reached the front door, the guy calls out: "Hey Tim! Un-select Bush!" When I turned around, he gives me a thumbs up and I see he has the K/E pin on his shirt!

We will NOT be silenced come November.

I went grocery shopping (buying those eggs, Mr. Zogby), on Sunday. The guy at the deli asked where I got my Kerry/Edwards shirt, I told him from my meetup organizer. I asked if he was a Kerry supporter, he started laughing and said he was the union rep there, and gave me a big grin.

Then he told me I was deep in republican territory there, and I confessed I drove a bit out of my way to go to that store instead of the closer one, so I would be visible on their turf. We were laughing about that, and then he called his coworker over, and made him admire my shirt. The coworker was polite, but reserved, said "nice." and left. I asked the deli guy if the coworker was a Bush supporter, and he leaned in real close and said "I think he's the next Hinckley."

I don't know if that story has much of a point, except my days sure are more interesting when I wear a kerry shirt.

like...hates the Republican president and wants to take him out to make some actress notice him? Or just plain nuts?

Enquiring minds wanna know!
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Hinckley was friends with the Bushes, he was supposed to have dinner with Neil the night after the shooting.

Killing Reagan = promotion for Bush.

Good story, FSC! There are Democrats everywhere, we just have to find them.

Your story reminded me of two friends I went to school with down south. They were from Denton and suffocated in the uptight conservative culture of the town. Their families were born-again Christian, straight-laced, and ultra-right wing. Strangely, all this oppression caused them to rebel and turned them into rabble rousing Democrats and proud of it! If your aunt still has her college yearbooks from '76 or '77, you'll see the three of us (and others) standing in front of our Halloween booth at the "Carnival of the Great Pumpkin" The booth was called "Godfather Inc." We sold hits. For a buck we would hit anybody on the carnival grounds with a shaving cream pie (faculty cost $3).

Have fun at your Halloween party!

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"in a sing-songy" voice! That's putting the freeper on the spot!!

go back another day and check to see if he is still around, i sure hope so!

great story!:toast:

how tough some of you American women are. And I mean the good ones, like you - who also have to operate in a moral world.

I just can't imagine a European, male or female, being as persistent and even truculently satirical in the end (..the customer's always right) with a bitch as overtly obstructive as that. You could be a real asset as an observer at the polls, I should think.

I'm actually going to a session on Saturday morning to learn how to do it.

I signed up to work the election for our county, but they got TONS of volunteers, and I HATE sitting around with a bunch of Repugs all day. If I have to do it, I'd rather be in their face rather than doing the "forced politeness" thing.

If you were here in Texas honey, you'd be very pleasantly surprised at meeting my friends.

Texas Lady Democrats are a persistent and truculently satirical bunch, let me tell ya!

Come visit sometime!
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- you have to generalise to make some sense of the world - among other things, because of your directness. But yankee women, that smidgeon more. The additional differences create a distinct, and notably exotic synergy.

On the TV, your characters don't say, "Err, excuse me, but who are you..."? They say, (pretty truculently to our ears), "Who are you!" The exclamation mark isn't a typo. But you really engage with life generally, and politics in particular, with a passion. Though you may, like me, hate politics, as such. You just want to defend your best interests, both personal and collective. I remember Columbo (what a character, that Peter Falk), calling out to someone, "Hey you!" He just wanted to ask him where he'd got his transistor radio. But the bloke wasn't in the least bit offended. Like the army. European women - great too, of course, but less exotic-seeming to us -are very easily offended by a brusque tone.

Did you see the recent little exchange between Stephanie, Suzie and Robbien about Krugmann's marital status? Hilariously wry. When Stephanie was told by Robbien he was spoken for, her punch line was: "Dang. Well, keep your eyes peeled for me. I want one just like him". She sure sounds like a regular champion of female consumer choice, doesn't she! Perfect material, I should think, for a slinky tango dancer. Up front and lively. Suzie was the perfect foil with her sisterly solicitude, and Robbien the "straight man".You and your friends sound as if you're cut from the same kind of cloth.

Much as I'd love to, unlikely I'll be making it to the US, - certainly not under this regime - fudge stripe cookay (love the pronunciation of the last word!). But thanks for the invitation.

The offer still stands if ya make it over.

Check here for more on the cookay pronunciation:
http://www.oddtodd.com

He was a computer geek who got laid off, and needed a way to pay his bills, so he started his own Website and asked people to donate to it so he could pay his bills. How American is THAT?

It worked great until the IRS found out about it, but he still keeps it up. Watch one of the animations about what he does all day while unemployed-- drinking "coffay and eating fudge stripe cookays."

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Did you ever see that comic strip, mnftiu.cc? (Very profane language for those who are sensitive about it).

That lad sounds like "a real self-starter", as one of the characters on the phone put it, in the third frame of day 6 at the URL: http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war6.html. My favourite day's strip in that series. Oddball sounds too creative to work for someone else! I like eccentric characters like him, who find a way of thwarting convention. I liked Orson Wells for that reason. He reckoned Kafka's Prisoner was "as guilty as hell"! And that was how he directed his film on the book. Mad as a hatter of course, because that's just the way the clandestine services see their designated targets, but Well's take on it was hilariously tongue-in-cheek.

I suspect that Robert Carlyle's appeal to you and Zidzi is that he has that strange quality they call "presence". Doesn't he? I think it reflects a magnaniminty of spirit (which would sure explain his appeal to you both, as you seem birds of a feather. It's as if you sense that you are only seeing a fraction of what the person is about. What do you think? Does it make any sense? And being of the opposite sex, certainly tends to add a certain something in these matters, doesn't it.

And thanks for your kind, standing invitation, Cookay. (Love saying that with my attempt at a Southern drawl).

it isn't the USA..Scotland!

Welcome to DU! I'm crazy about the Scottish accents and you are right ..Fudge Stripe Cookay would be an asset at the polls!

I dig the Scots thing too. I find Robert Carlyle strangely sexy.

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And Ewan McGregor! B-)

for that welcome, Missy Zidzi... Now you see, you two have got me performing atrocious impersonations again. Preciate it! ('nother wonderful Americanism, though no less sincerely meant here).

I wish I could say I was crazy about the Scottish accent. Most accents tend to sound attractive when spoken by the opposite sex. I really grew up in London, but have lived here 24 years now - longer than anywhere else. It's nice enough until someone, maybe a very good friend says something to you, and you have to keep asking them to repeat it, and finally pretend you understood it. Bill Bryson had that experience when he stopped at a Glasgow pub.

I'm actually 1/4 Scottish, 1/2 Welsh and 57 varieties the other quarter, but I feel completely Scottish, and felt at home, virtually from the moment I first got off the train here. I sometimes wonder if everyone feels that way, as I once heard a Pakistani owner of a supermarket chain, say, "England belongs to the English, Wales belongs to the Welsh, but Scotland belongs to God". Unfortunately, as always happens when a people are misgoverned and economically oppressed (as applies throughout the UK), there are a growing number of racists who would take issue with that.

Wouldn't Cookkkayyyy just be an asset at the polls! I'm put in mind of Michael Moore's somewhat errrr.. robust encomium of Hilary, (the empress ). I believe when he was introduced to her he told her thought she was "....one hot, sh*t-kicking babe!" An eloquence all of its own.

Scottish humor. I'm proud to say I have Scots on both sides of my family as well as English and Irish... And a Welsh last name.

It is hard to understand sometimes but I don't mind trying..I have to say that when I see movies with Scottish actors..I like subtitles! :D

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look of a skank?

the poster here who went out of his way to shop for his groceries in a Republican area, dieharderdem!

i saw your picture in the gallery.

it's harder for, say, The Doctor, who looks like the love child of Peter Falk and Walter Matthau, to strike up conversations with potential converts.

thanks for the story, i know we have a majority, we just have to "shake the trees" on 11/02 and make sure we all get to the polls. I live in a repub heaven too and just avoid politics like the plague at gatherings. thanks for doing the yeoman work.

is the Gallery, Doctor?

All sorts of exhuberant sixties titles come to mind, Cookay. Such as ("Someone's) got a girl as mean as she can be..."! (...thinking of your little run-in at the drive-in fast-food place).

DUers I've posted with over the last two years.
When I figure out how to do that someday I'll put my photo in the Who's Who on DU!

Fudge Stripe.. you are wonderfully photogentic!B-)

The photo is a tad dated. I USED to be photogenic. Now that I'm an old married lady I just glow a little bit.

Old photo helps keep Agent Mike off my trail.

:hi: Agent Mike!
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Half your luck, Doc! A touch too androgenous-looking, myself. Thank goodness women's tastes cover a very broad spectrum. No accounting for them.

is that i look younger than my 48 years, despite raising two girls to womanhood. but the Matthau wrinkl-, er, "character" combined with Columbo's skin tone and hair make for a, um, striking combination. One of these days i'll send my photo to the gallery.

For some reason my lovely wife of 25 yrs seems to be OK with it :shrug: You're right about women having unaccountable taste...

My brother's in Lewisville; he complains about the uber "W 04" stickers he's subjected to daily. x(

Now *I* am going to get a Schlotzky's sandwich for lunch! That sounds good! Mmmm :-)

If your brother isn't in touch with too many local Dems, I could give him some contact info for some of my friends on that side of town.

Enjoy that Schlotzky's! Accept no substitutzsky's!
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