Jesus, save me from your followers. I BEG YOU.

[apocalypsos]

The good news: I got laid off this week! WOO! (No, really, I wanted this week off. *happy dance*)

Anyway, Jess was laid off, too, so I picked up her paycheck and met her at Dunkin Donuts to give it to her and tell her what was up at work. So we're standing outside Dunkin Donuts at her car talking about work and Supernatural when this heavyset middle-aged guy walks past us ... and then turns right around and walks up to us.

At first he's all, "How about these gas prices dropping?", which ... okay, whatever. Then he starts in on religion (uh-oh), and the next thing I know he's "politely" ranting about "towelheads" and how everybody who doesn't believe in Jesus is going to Hell and how Allah doesn't exist and how some big black guy with a "Castro beard" tried to pull a gun from his bag and attack him for shouting in a minimart about how everybody had to accept Jesus or go to Hell and how was all of that rude?

I must have remarkable restraint because at no time did I turn to him and say the two words that would have just made things worse: "I'm Wiccan."

Of course, I also didn't say what I really wanted to, which was, "Well, I've really got to go. That gay incest porn won't write itself!"

Also, from now on, regardless of the fact that, say, I'm in an entirely different state than the one I live in on a Thursday night at seven, I'm going to say goodbye to people with, "Well, I've got to go. I'm late for church."

Comments

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

Eek! Laid off? Like...no more job laid off?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Nah, they just lay you off for a four-day shift. I go back to work next Friday night.

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

Okay. Woo for free time, in that case!

[honorh.livejournal.com]

As a Christian, may I just say: you *so* should've said that thing about the gay incest porn!

[tv-elf.livejournal.com]

I would so adore you forever if you said that next time.

[tabaqui]

Dude. I *so* would have told the guy something along the lines of 'you are a moron and by the way, i'm not xian'. I really do like to piss off the extreme xians who get in your face.

*cough*

I'm annoying that way.

[random-serious.livejournal.com]

People like that guy are a problem... they got a right be as they are but they don't have the right to enforce their beliefs on others, IMO.

[mona1347.livejournal.com]

What the...WHAT. Why don't crazy people like this ever come up to me? Not that I'm...complaining. Sheesh.

Um, also, though it sounds weird...hooray for laying off! Enjoy it and write some good stuff. Or just lay (lie?) around in your pjs and watch TV. Whichever.

[ravenskye8.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

I had a woman like that come up to a friend of mine and I in a mall once...

I said "Oh, nice to meet you... I'm a witch, and this is my friend Demon... " (Demon is his nickname) and I gave her a nice evil grin.

She just froze with this shocked look on her face...

*giggle*

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

It's so much easier in the summer when I'm wearing tank tops all the time and people can see the pentagram tattoo on my shoulder and avoid me. :)

[ravenskye8.livejournal.com]

Oh - around here, for some folks, that's a challenge...

*rolls eyes*

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I keep waiting for someone to start shit with me about it, but so far I've had more people ask me in a bitchy tone if the tattoo on my arm is Arabic (uh, no, that's the inscription from the One Ring, it's Elvish) than I have had people question me about the pentagram.

[loveguide.livejournal.com]

I see you're lucky;)