When some were asked why they wanted to stay “on the street, in the park, or under the overpass” they said they were afraid of “being trapped.” Most shelters take only men or only women so husbands and wives couldn’t stay together. None of the shelters take animals, so if they have a pet, they would have to abandon their non-human companion.
My mother said her sister got so mad at her that my aunt said, “Stop f-f-f-farting around.” My grandmother was in the room at the time and did not approve of anyone using the “F” word.
My dad worked with a guy whose only expletive was “prunes.” I have no idea what the thought process behind that was. I had a Sunday school teacher who said it didn’t matter if you said “gosh” or “jeez” it was still a sin because god new what you really meant.
Not changing the narrative, adjusting the perception. Conservatives mocked the idea of “global warming” because we still have winter. They were against “affirmative action” because if a white male and a female person of color had equal qualifications for a job, and the woman got the job it didn’t “affirm” the man’s “god-given superiority.”
Oh, the “don’t complain about the problems in your life” argument. “The power to your house is out because of a snowstorm? You should be happy because even kings didn’t have electricity in the Middle Ages.”
In real life, I am Aunty Acid. She has a point. When someone dumps on you over and over again, they act like you’ve hurt them when you ask them to stop.
The library I work at did a rush job to get RFID (radio frequency identification) tags into all of our material. Bonuses were given each day to the person who placed the most tags. After the job was finally finished, staff discovered that many of the tags were misplaced. Another woman and I were given the job of straightening things out. It took us two years (working 2 hours a week so we didn’t get too far behind on our “real jobs”) to fix the errors.
When some were asked why they wanted to stay “on the street, in the park, or under the overpass” they said they were afraid of “being trapped.” Most shelters take only men or only women so husbands and wives couldn’t stay together. None of the shelters take animals, so if they have a pet, they would have to abandon their non-human companion.