Ok… So I was out on one of my dating service dates tonight. We met at a restaurant that has been around for 75 years. It’s one of those established places where they have a particular clientele. The date and I were sitting in a booth with our drinks, and who comes in? The Governor. He’s a Republican and is big time stumping for McCain these days. If you read my Bad TV post, you know that I am on the other end of the political spectrum.
Me and the date are talking and over comes the Gov. He reaches out his hand to shake both of ours and ask “how are you doing tonight?”, etc. It was weird. There really is NOTHING different about my hand. But it feels weird now that it shook the hand of a man that I really don’t care for.
I’m always one of those people that thinks of my lines after the moment has passed. I should have whipped out my business card and invited him to my classroom to see what it’s really like in a city school. I would have loved to tell him that the idea of having all 8th graders learn Algebra 1 is crazy and developmentally inappropriate. The way he has short-funded education so that districts have to go begging their taxpayers to pass referendums is another added pressure that school districts don’t need. Don’t you realize that you’re short changing the future?
Well… I smiled politely and said hello. So much for any bravado that I thought I had in me. But at least now, I’ve thought about it in case it ever happens again.
I bet this story makes my dad’s blood pressure go up…
February 5, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Craaazy.
February 5, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Made my blood pressure go up…I am such a stinker that I would have spoken right up and told him a thing or two. These people are our elected representatives and they should hear what we are thinking.
February 8, 2008 at 5:47 pm
saying all that wouldnt have changed his policies, it probably wouldve just got you chucked out of the restaurant. These people don’t care what you think, or what you say, so I wouldn’t lose sleep over it.