I walked into the Main Street Coffee Works in White Haven, Pennsylvania. I used the bathroom on my way in and then went to the counter to inspect the menu. Facing into the seating area was a TV set tuned to Fox News.
First of all: why is there a goddamn TV set in a coffee house? And: Fox news?
Not hungry enough to find that crap appetizing, I walked out to look for another place for lunch. I briefly pondered telling someone in the coffee house why I was leaving.
I got my chance to say something after all. As I was getting into my car, the proprietor came out and asked me if I was planning to come back inside. “No,” I replied.
“The bathroom is for customer use only,” he said. “Were you planning to buy something?”
“I was,” I said, “until I saw that you have Fox News on.”
“That’s a piss-poor excuse…” he said as I fastened my seat belt and closed my car door.
Not a poor excuse at all; it was a rare opportunity to vote with my pocketbook against fascist propaganda.
Well said–and thanks for setting a good example!
Excellent work. I’ve done the same at car dealers, restaurants, and banks.
Well done, David! Sounds like a pretty good excuse to leave a place, if you ask me.
Speaking of boycotts; how do you like Commiefornia’s racist laws?
California Penal Code
834b. (a) Every law enforcement agency in California shall fully cooperate with the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service regarding any person who is arrested if he or she is suspected of being present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws.
(b) With respect to any such person who is arrested, and suspected of being present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws, every law enforcement agency shall do the following:
(1) Attempt to verify the legal status of such person as a citizen of the United States, an alien lawfully admitted as a permanent resident, an alien lawfully admitted for a temporary period of time or as an alien who is present in the United States in violation of immigration laws.
The verification process may include, but shall not be limited to, questioning the person regarding his or her date and place of birth, and entry into the United States, and demanding documentation to indicate his or her legal status.
(2) Notify the person of his or her apparent status as an alien who is present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws and inform him or her that, apart from any criminal justice proceedings, he or she must either obtain legal status or leave the United States.
(3) Notify the Attorney General of California and the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service of the apparent illegal status and provide any additional information that may be requested by any other public entity.
(c) Any legislative, administrative, or other action by a city, county, or other legally authorized local governmental entity with jurisdictional boundaries, or by a law enforcement agency, to prevent or limit the cooperation required by subdivision (a) is expressly prohibited.
David, what nerve that guy had saying that to you! Instead of saying, well that’s your right he had to come back with a most disgusting comment!
I’m going to go to their site and see if there is a place I can leave a comment about how rude the proprietor of the store is!
Way to go, David!
David – I don’t effin’ believe you. All my life I have eaten in restaurants all over this country, & have many times entered, even used their facilities, examined their menu, changed my mind about the place & walked out – & have never never never been accosted inside or outside the establishment by any employee – about my activities or my intentions. It’s an unwritten-code of businesspeople NOT to create an affront least they lose future-customers. Perhaps it was the name of the town, `WhiteHaven’. To self-wonderful perfect-hearted conscientous `1st-Americans'[link] – that is to say, those of snooty superiority in liberality & multicultural pretend-tolerant progressivism – `WhiteHaven’ MUST be a place of darkness & abject backwards guns-&-religion flyover-country tea-bagger racism. By even going in to a town w/ that kind-of name – you must have been fantasying about being the brave pacifist people’s-hero rocking-&-socking the `2nd-Amerka’ retards. What aren’t you telling us??? Wha?, did you go in there wearing a fucking CheGuevara t-shirt? Did you spit on the floor? Did you sing a verse of ALLAHU AKBAR?, to give those slopeheads there, a lesson in social-justice loving accommodationism? What aren’t you telling us?
[link] = http://ricochet.com/conversations/Second-Class-Americans-How-the-Left-Helps-Create-the-Right-it-Fears-and-Despises
Man, you have a powerful imagination. I told the story exactly as it went down. I wasn’t thinking at all about the name of the town; I was just looking for something to eat.
Hey David,
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The Kubler-Ross 5 Stages of Grief. 1st there was Denial by theLeft that anybody who disputed theHistoricObama could be doing it for rational reasoned honorable ideals. Afterall, only Leftists are reasoned rational people. Not-leftists, are bitter-clingers. Next-up coming now is – Anger. Anger at FoxNews. Anger at the voters. Anger at the calendar that shows November approaching. — As a former-librul former-Dem former-pergrizzive who unlike you has finally got his head screwed-on straight (meaning I still love the music, I just quit being a dope, & a doper), it is K-R stage4 I’m looking forward to: your Depression! …. K-R stage 5 – Acceptance. Nah!, won’t happen. You’re all too feely-brainiacs to advance all the way thru the stages. But I do have some advice for you oh-so smart-guy lefties: just keep-on dishing your stupid-shit on Sarah Palin !!!! FoxNews & SarahP, just keep-on!