Forum Post: Is That the Best You Can Do?

I was eating a sandwich, in a sandwich shop. That is what normal people do, when they are in sandwich shops? Eat sandwiches? I think so, I'm not sure, I'm not sure that I have ever met anyone who is normal, or even know what normal is - but there I was, doing my best to imitate what I presume is normative behavior, and I was doing so by simply not thinking at all.

I no longer study to apply a blank expression to my features, it has become a comfortable mask. Studies have shown that a blank face will be interpreted entirely on the basis of context.

A man and woman came and sat across from me. Just before they were leaving a man in blue uniform entered. He wasn't a local cop, the patch on his shoulder was wrong, I could see that though I could not read what it said. He wore a 9mm in his holster, and four clips, not the standard three, on the left side. I wondered what he thought he could accomplish with 75 rounds, that he could not with three.

The man in front of me wore a red ball cap. He began to inquire about auto dealers in the area. He began to inquire about auto dealers, in a sandwich shop. Perhaps I don't know what normal is, but I have eaten many sandwiches at many different sandwich shops over the course of many years. This is the first time I have heard anyone make such inquiry.

He looked at me just before he rose from his table, and a shadow of fear flickered across his face. Mine remained blank.

I went outside, got in the truck, let it warm up a little. As I pulled out a blue full sized pickup, likely a Ford, cut me off. It's occupant had been sitting in it from the time I left the store.

• Honestly, do I look like I care? I do not.

Only yesterday, it seems . . .

• . . . I have no appetite for a life dependant on nothing more than a tee shirt imprinted with lies - and I do grow so weary of this game. ~ Give me liberty or give me death I say, but do it not in the name of the Will of the People for among those in whose power it is so to give The Will of the People is unknown. It is a thing alien and detested. ~ Give me liberty or give me death I say, and think it no more than a kindness, and let us note with great care what kindness they give.

Boycott KIA cars and Target Stores I say. And send a letter to Biden.

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• Part I: Boycott KIA Cars and Target Stores

• Part II: - - - - - - - - - - - Dear Sir - - - - - - - - - - -

• Part III: Is That the Best You Can Do?

• Part IV: Am I?

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