On a serious note, I sat with Vero in Jackson Memorial today waiting for her mom to come out of surgery. Things proceeded and everything is okay but while we were waiting there was a woman who may have been late 40's but looked haggard, obese, and had obvious health issues that put her in an electronic wheelchair. Our conversation began easy enough with talk of Grey's Anatomy, McDreamy vs. McSteamy, I'm guessing her loneliness was too much as she was jumping at the chance to talk to us on any topic. She made it a point to stick her finger down her throat and imitate vomiting noises at the revelation that the actor who plays George O'Malley on GA is gay. I didn't know how to respond to that one as we were in a WAITING room so I let it go.
We browsed the newsweek for the 50 things that could change your life this year and somehow we came across Obama's book and a quick snip. I mention it to Vero and the humanitarian of the year pipes in again against Obama and against Hillary. At this point I really wished I was a meaner person, but I just held my liberal head in position and waited for the ignorance to subside. Veronica, tried to actually reason with the Republican.
Later we discussed that its not us vs. them, but ignorance vs. enlightened. Who is on what side is tbd, but I know that for sure if Obama is placing his platform so that red and blue states can work together I'm all for it.
If not our generation is going to keep waiting, waiting on the world to change.
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