- 17 Dec 2008 07:33
#1728139
"Their economy produces things cheaper than ours, so we need to send them some manufactured viruses to level the playing field." - Freedom and Democracy Inc.
Yesterday, my friend Mustafa and I walked from his house to Canadian Tire to buy some plastic sleds for his kids. It was really icy on the roads and he only lives a few blocks away, so it was a nice walk.
As we were crossing Sherbrooke, a Ford Explorer made a last-minute right turn into the parking lot, and slid within inches of crushing Mustafa's foot.
So he banged on the side window, and went charging after the Explorer's driver in the Canadian Tire parking lot late afternoon darkness.
The guy was a middle-aged Quebecois guy, and he gets out and says, "What the hell are you guys doing? I had the green. Etc."
Mustafa was so mad that he couldn't speak French. He just kept calling him an asshole in English (Quebecois also use the word "asshole"). I told him, "Hey, you could have crushed our feet. That truck's not a weapon, buddy. etc."
After the guy went off to find parking, Mustafa told me that I hadn't been "brave" enough, and that he was going to go "teach the guy a lesson."
We go into the store, and I leave him at the cash to exchange something, while I go to look at sleds.
When I get back, he waves me to go outside into the parking lot. He takes me to a base of a large streetlight, and digs in the snow. There, he shows me a windshield wiper that he has ripped off the Explorer.
I was pissed off. I told him that he was only inviting more revenge, and that this guy would NOT learn a lesson from this, only that Mustafa was a savage. I mean, this guy probably lives near Mustafa. He'll probably see him around.
Moose told me I was bringing him down, and I later changed my mind and decided that maybe he did the right thing.
Did he?
As we were crossing Sherbrooke, a Ford Explorer made a last-minute right turn into the parking lot, and slid within inches of crushing Mustafa's foot.
So he banged on the side window, and went charging after the Explorer's driver in the Canadian Tire parking lot late afternoon darkness.
The guy was a middle-aged Quebecois guy, and he gets out and says, "What the hell are you guys doing? I had the green. Etc."
Mustafa was so mad that he couldn't speak French. He just kept calling him an asshole in English (Quebecois also use the word "asshole"). I told him, "Hey, you could have crushed our feet. That truck's not a weapon, buddy. etc."
After the guy went off to find parking, Mustafa told me that I hadn't been "brave" enough, and that he was going to go "teach the guy a lesson."
We go into the store, and I leave him at the cash to exchange something, while I go to look at sleds.
When I get back, he waves me to go outside into the parking lot. He takes me to a base of a large streetlight, and digs in the snow. There, he shows me a windshield wiper that he has ripped off the Explorer.
I was pissed off. I told him that he was only inviting more revenge, and that this guy would NOT learn a lesson from this, only that Mustafa was a savage. I mean, this guy probably lives near Mustafa. He'll probably see him around.
Moose told me I was bringing him down, and I later changed my mind and decided that maybe he did the right thing.
Did he?
"Their economy produces things cheaper than ours, so we need to send them some manufactured viruses to level the playing field." - Freedom and Democracy Inc.