Overheard at a local roadhouse restaurant - some people are just hopeless

[zulchzulu]

I went out to dinner with some friends at a local roadhouse restaurant here in Madison that is quintessential Wisconsin cuisine and where locals have gone for a generation.

Seated next to two fairly obese women, you couldn't help but hear them yacking away in a semi-Fargoesque accent. Since the place was packed and the people I was with were hungry, I just decided to sit and listen. You couldn't help it.

Both worked at the nearby Walmart. Both had husbands either unemployed or retired and both women were happy to have made dinner for their hubbys and then had a night out. Both were worried about their jobs. Both complained about their lack of healthcare for them and their husbands. Both were petrified about the economy here and in the United States.

Their lives were teetering on an uncertain edge. Both being straddled with non-working spouses made it seem even more uncertain, at least seemed evident to me.

Then the Big Question came. "So who are you going to vote for?", asked one woman. "Oh, Carl told me not to vote for Obama, so..." The other interjected "I'm not voting for McCain! But Obama scares me..." They then continued on about how their husbands were a drag and needed to help out more.

I wanted so badly to ask the one woman why she would not vote for Obama because of Karl, and better yet, what Karl was telling her about Obama to make her not make her own decision. But I figured it would have been a fruitless endeavor.

As they were getting up to leave, I also got up to use the restroom. As I came back and looked out the window, they were smoking cigarettes while standing next to each others huge SUVs.

Hopefully they either don't vote or cancel each others votes out.

[Wapsie B]

1. Yes, it would've been fruitless.

Even if you could've gotten through to one of them the husband would set them straight one she got home.