Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evolving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
In a grocery store today. My routine for lunch is to avoid all fast food and sugar. So I am mixed in with regular shoppers while I walk the outside parameter for lunch.
At the egg section a nice elderly lady is telling how ridiculous the eggs price is. I agree and reply “you get what you voted for” - she is sort of taking offense to my remark. She says “I did not vote for democrats”
I tell you many has. This is a majority of democratic voters in this grocery store. I was wanting to see if any of them would call me racist. I am not looking for a fight but this lady gave me an opportunity to essentially float an option to the surrounding people.
I do not think the elderly lady understands that, however she also showed me that she is fed up with the nonsense too and had the courage to proclaim she never voted to democrats.
Little things is all. Much like throwing a little pebble in an ocean. I deem it a miniature win. I wish millions of others did the same. It would be awesome to see another citizen chim and say something like amen.
We will get there eventually. Then I can go back to observing good people with good intent. :)
Your story reminds me of this story: Two men walking towards each other on a beach, covered with thousands of star fish. As they get closer to each other, the one man notices that the other man,every once in a while would bend down and pick up a star fish and throw it back into the water, so when they get within talking distance of one another,the one man says to the other,"WHAT'S THE POINT" there are tens of thousands of starfish washed up, "WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE" The other man reaches down and picks up another starfish and throws it back into the water and replies "All the difference in the world to that starfish"
Nice.