You Need To Leave, Sir!

I thought I had seen it all...as Marsh and I were at one of our favorite watering holes in the GQ...you know, "Happy Hour!"...at Las Hadas...great Mexi-type food and drinks...equally so are the owners and servers...well...

We ran into an elderly gentleman who had some wonderful tales of past yore...he was from SF...had been coming to SD for over 50 years...and talked about the GQ prior to it being resurrected...very interesting and well told...of course, we pumped him for more info...as he was involved in politics of years past...Marsh asked about the CNN series, "The Sixties"...said he refrained from watching it, as he was at the hotel the night when RFK was assassinated...and brought back haunting memories...his wife was working on the campaign and that's why he was there...I could go on...

Anyway, the conversation worked it's way to the Freedom Riders...of course, brought on again by my lurvly wife...and she asked if there were any similarities to that of the blocked busses that were being done by people outside of SD and LA...right now?...I asked if he thought that they were religiously backed...he said, no, they were racially motivated...hmmm...

Unbeknownst to us, the bloke next to us, was EAVESDROPPING!...and had enough apparently...and bellowed out..."You need to leave sir"...what?...our newly found friend excused himself...and we did the stare down with the bloke...he obviously was one of the blockaders, er, at least a sympathizer...rather than get in any more of a confrontation, we paid up and left...I told him I hoped he had a good life...he said he already had one...and well, it brought up questions...

When do you overstep your bounds with conversations?...and when do you have the right to ask someone to leave as your own rights are being desecrated?...and how do you have any rights to ask anyone to leave an establishment, when it's NOT YOURS?...

By the way, Marsh went in to somewhat apologize for the bloke's comments to the elderly gentleman...as he went in to settle up his bill...he said to turn the other cheek...that is the way to deal with blokes like that...

Oh yea, as we were departing...and I was giving the bloke the stink eye...my arm swung and hit a railing on the place next to Las Hadas....immediately turned black and blue...and now...you have THE STORY!...

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