We are in the process of moving to Mansfield (Tarrant County)

[ashling]

from Cleburne. We have been moving things over all month and are pretty worn out.
Today we decided to take a break and went to Target and Home Depot to get a few things. We were coming out of Home Depot and it had started raining - just a light drizzle, so we headed out to the car. As soon as we stepped out from under cover it started getting harder and was poring down by the time we found the car.

Now we are really worn our AND soaked like a couple of drowned rats.

We get home and both of us are too pooped to even get out of the car. There was also a piece on This American Life which we were listening too which was getting us riled up about a cop in New York (Brooklyn) who had been documenting his superiors supressing the crime statistics.

When it was finally over we get out of the car, still dripping wet, and get our 4x4 (because I broke the harvest table trying to move the base) and the lady next door comes over to introduce herself. She is an elderly lady who seems nice enough and in the conversatin asks what we do, etc. Melodie tells are we are both college professors and we teach government. Then she talks about how people don't understand enough about government - w/ wh. we agree - and how we are losing our government - we try to be cordial - Melodie says "some people DO feel that way" - and it turns out that our new God is named "convenience" and she goes to church at the big church down the street and where do we plan to go to church blah, blah, blah . . .

but the weirdest part is that she is the mother of Stat Sen, Brian Birdwell (asshole, Granbury) - she asks if we have heard of him - we smile and say we have; Melodie says that she has a picture of herself an a group of Student Government Students and her son from earlier in the year in Austin in a box in the house somewhere (we're still moving in) (she neglected to say that it is probably crumpled unlike the one of her with Hillary from when she worked for Congress) Then: "How do you like my boy?!"

My lower lip has a major bite mark in it.

[Ilsa]

1. My, what a pushy woman.

Not for introducing herself, but for insisting you tell her how you feel about her dumbfuck son.

[ashling]

4. I don't think it was pushy - funny, yes, pushy not so much

I know it is hard to believe, but even dumb as shit fundie Republicans have a right to be proud of their kids ... just because.

It was said like a rhetorical question, no answer required.

[dem in texas]

2. I live in Oak Cliff in Dallas, blue country

Last year I bought a large picture on Ebay. The seller had recently moved from New York to Plano. a town just north of Dallas. I told her I could pick up the picture as I went over to that area once a week to take my handicapped nephew grocery shopping. We met at the corner of a Plano shopping mall a few days later. The New York gal got out of her car and came running to me, saying "I want to give you a hug". She'd seen my Obama/Biden bumper sticker. She was a dyed in the wool democrat said she couldn't believe that she was now in the heart of right wing republican country. I told her to come over to Oak Cliff where the cool folks hang out.

[TexasTowelie]

3. I would have told her your opinion about her son.

There's no point in pretending that you have anything in common with the woman so she will leave you alone in the future. Since you didn't provide your opinion she will continue dumping her garbage views on you.

I'm moving to Irving next weekend so we might have to get together some time.

[ashling]

5. She apparently hasn't seen our bumper stickers.

Our Wendy Davis sign will go up any day now.

[TexasTowelie]

6. Make certain that it's one of the huge yard signs.

You know that the elderly have problems reading the fine print. It's too bad that you're in Smoky Joe Barton's district though.

[ashling]

7. We should have told her that

We were in his district and were just thankful that we were now in Wendy Davis' District.