Amused Cynic

I wasn’t going to talk about it, until I saw this. I mean really, how freakin’ lame are these people who want to end all fascism?

What happened yesterday was this: I needed some books for one of my classes down at UPenn, where I am a real, official graduate student with my own student ID card and everything. There is a construction nightmare going on in the center of campus right now, so traffic and parking are ridiculous. But there is a special place that I know of, as a long-time denizen of that area….right in front of the lower-level entrance to WXPN’s World Cafe. So that was where I parked, as I have for so many years, without problems. It is an extremely hip radio station (Penn’s own) and music venue.

But yesterday was the afternoon of the much-anticipated Palin/Biden debate, and apparently tensions were running high among the afternoon drinkers at the World Cafe, where I usually find nothing but friendship and love, seriously.

I parked my car, and fast-walked about six blocks (because I only had one quarter on me, and $.25 buys you only 18 minutes at the meters there) to the bookstore, bought my texts, and ran back, and within that 15 minute time span, someone had slashed the crap out of my McCain/Palin sticker, and ran a key down the entire passenger side of my car. No big deal, it’s five years old, and my kids have scraped it up enough in minor parking accidents that, you know, wtf.

But if I had caught that SOB, s/he would have been on the ground in about 2 seconds, and his/her keys would have ended up in the sewer….which is what I did to the last person I caught keying my car, back when Bush-Hitler was, you know, stealing the Florida election. Right down the sewer grate. No such luck this time.
Related: Laura Lee Donoho had a similar experience with the oh-so-tolerant Obamakins….