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December 23, 2005

Archery league: political chat with weapons

A few years ago I started participating in an archery league with my son.

There are quite the cast of characters that shoot in our league: lawyers, doctors, truck drivers, microprocessor engineers, homemakers...you name it. It's a real soup to nuts group.

Last night's league generated the first politically oriented banter that I've noticed:

Man: (overheard by me while he was addressing someone else): You must be a Democrat.

Me (injecting myself into someone else's conversation): I am.

Man: That's your problem to deal with.

Me: It's my privilege, actually.

Man: You must be terrible with money.

Me: I'm great with money.

Man: All the Democrats want to do is take our money away and spend it.

Me: As opposed to Bush, who will tell you he isn't taking your money..takes out loans against your money and makes you a wholly own subsidiary of the Chinese.

(other archers stop and stare..some start giggling)

Man: Well I won't have to worry about that. At least I have my Social Security.

Me: Social Security, eh? You can thank the Democrats for having it in the first place. And you can thank them again for keeping the Republican's grubby paws off of it.

(Other archers are guffawing now)

Man walks away red faced.

***Full disclosure*** He easily outshot me in archery. Guess he had to compensate.

Posted by Carla at December 23, 2005 02:53 PM