hi everyone. greetings and salutations from the dark side of the moon...er, chicago at the very least. so i would like to share this story with all of you. on this saturday past i was shopping round the suburbs running errands and trying to hunt down a copy of the advocate magazine becuase i wanted to read the lil article about jonsi from sigur ros....i love them....anyway. after trying several bookstore i thought i'd give borders a try. i sauntered in and went to the "Lesbian/Gay Lifestyle" section. so there i stood reading the advocate. i was so happy to have found it! so all the sudden i notice this woman standing next to me sort of muttering to herself. then she said "yes im talking to you!" and i looked at her, then glanced around wondering who on earth she was talking to. turns out she was talking to yours truly. she then proceeded to ask me what on earth someone who looked like me was doing there. i said "i love bookstores, i go to them all of the time." to which she replied "you know precisely what i mean!" in all honestly, if not naivity, i had no bloody idea what she was talking about...not even thinking about being in the gay lesbian section. so then she started to say that she can't believe someone like "me" was one of "those" as i look like such a nice girl and a good person. she also mentioned that i was a child of the devil himself and that i ought to be ashamed of myself for how i "chose" to live and also feel dreadfully guilty for what i "put my poor parents through." oh my god! i have NEVER been more offended in my life. when i was able to speak after my shock had somewhat worn off i said "how dare you walk up to a total stranger in a public place and pass judgement. perhaps you are the one who should be ashamed as you are a rude, pretentious and totally uneducated old cow. who i choose to have intimate relations with is in no way your business or the business of anyone other than myself and the person whom im with." at this point the manager came over and asked if we were okay and i simply told her that the woman had said something rude and totally inappropriate to me....to which said woman went huffing out of the store saying..."people like me will never be friends with people like you." to which i replied "i have no interest or desire to even know people like you much less be friends with them. my friends are intelligent, respectful, open minded, talented,courteous and amazingly brilliant people and i'm sorry but you just don't fit the bill." and with that she walked out of the store. i apologised to the manager for any type of scene that may have been caused and she gave me a discount on my magazine. oi. what a totally insane day. i mean, as for the gay bashing. that blew me away. i have never been a part of a "minority" group. im a white female from the suburbs,heterosexual,upperish middle class family, catholic..the whole nine yards. i have never experienced anything like that and feel very sorry for people who are in situations like that all of the time just because of who they fall in love with or what religious affiliation they have or where they live or what the colour of their skin is. its so crazy that things like that happen in modern society..where people are educated and have all of the knowledge known to mankind at their disposal....all to be pissed way and totally distorted to fit into what a few fanatical believers believe. oh my. so then i went to get some petrol for colin (he's my car). i was in line to pay and the man standing behind me was telling me that i had a nice smile and then totally flirting with me. i was getting a little annoyed when i noticed that he had a ring on his left finger. i thought to myself that there was no way someone would be that rude...he couldn't possibly be married. so then i left and went to my car...his car was parked next to mine...a volvo...no single man drives a volvo! then he got in and kissed the woman in the car! i was thinking..."sir, the next time you try to pick up a girl at the petrol station, leave your wedding ring behind! CREEP!!!!!" so saturday night i was to go to the cinema with my friend sharon. i love her! awww. anyway. we went to see scary movie 2. it starts off with this sort of exorcist spoof with this girl spewing green gel like substances and such. very pleasant. anyway. there was this woman sitting in front of me while this was on. i would guess her to be 40ish..so anyway. she turned around and said to me "THIS ISN'T OSMOMSIS JONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and i said "no its scary movie 2" to which she replied "well no wonder!!!!" and went huffing off. sharon and i were cracking up! that, incidentally, was the only thing funny about scary movie 2. then we saw these people who were driving so insanely. we thought that the one guy cut off the other one so he started following him. we then sort of concluded that they must have known each other.....we followed them for about 30 minutes or so cuz we were certain they were doing a crack deal or something interesting that we suburbanites had not seen the likes of. when they started heading toward the ghetto we decided we best just head back to more familiar territory. no crack deal. damn. ah well. as for the picnic in chicago. i thought that the dates i read were the 13/14 of october...which would be a thursday or friday...so perhaps i misread the dates or the month. anyway. i think we should do it on whatever that saturday is. i am available either day, but i think it would be cool to see elise and a sinister who we might not meet otherwise. just my opinion. we should start a lil sub-section of the list so that we can try to organise this so that it actually happens. :o) my aol im id is toadie291 btw. one more thing. does anyone know what happened to isabellark? i used to talk to her all of the time and she used to post quite a bit but i havent heard from her in ages. aww. well i hope all of you are having toadie days. it is sunny and almost 80 degrees in chicagoish today. take care. thanks for listening. ~stine +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. 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