I get out into the real world so infrequently that I forget there are other people still inhabiting this planet.\u00a0 But today I had to send off a package and buy some stamps for Camera Girl\u2019s Christmas cards.\u00a0 I was standing in one of the lines, which thankfully no longer requires a stupid mask, and there was an elderly lady probably in her late seventies in the next line with a mask on.\u00a0 I was waiting for my mail lady to finish solving some kind of partial postal differential equation so I unintentionally eavesdropped on the conversation going on in the other line.\u00a0 Apparently, the postman and the old lady were acquaintances and were discussing some kind of holiday performance, possibly a play, and the man asked her whether she liked it and she said she enjoyed the way they enforced their mask mandate and social distancing.\u00a0 Then she asked him if he liked the intermission speech and he rather heatedly exclaimed that no he wasn\u2019t happy that they had preached some social justice message at him.\u00a0 He said, \u201cNo, I\u2019m done with diversity, I\u2019ve had diversity up to here.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to hear who or what you\u2019re sleeping with and I certainly don\u2019t want it creeping into the story I\u2019m watching.\u201d\u00a0 I could see that the old lady was taken aback.\u00a0 He added a few other statements about how he felt about being the target of proselytizing and then got her the stamps she wanted.<\/p>\n
So. this is a public conversation and from a federal employee no less.\u00a0 I have to say this gave me a boost.\u00a0 I had to stop myself from cheering and clapping.\u00a0 I\u2019ll tell you I wish that guy had been working on my postal problems.\u00a0 I know he\u2019s got the right stuff, for a postman anyway.\u00a0 So even here in Dunwich, at the nexus of all things diabolical and woke there still lives a few hardy souls who aren\u2019t writing their pronouns on their business cards and taping \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d on their car bumpers.<\/p>\n
Just a quick anecdote but worth considering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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