This is a 100% true story. Stay with me, because this is going be a long but good story.


This morning, when I got to the shop, there was a lady parked all sideways with a stream of antifreeze coming from beneath her car. I parked and walked over. She asked me if I could show her where her oil went. Of course I said I would not only show her, but do it for her. As I'm checking over her car, she explains that her car just started running badly and died, so coasted into the lot (which explained her parking prowess ). Fine. I check her oil, and it's a quart low. Put the oil in for her and show her where it goes for future reference. Upon further talking, she tried to put antifreeze in herself and spilled it, hence the streat of antifreeze. Fine. When we try to start her car, it won't. Probably due to ignition issues. We offer that she leave her car there and we diagnose/fix the problem AND (after further talking we found out she was on the way to school with her daughter where she is a TEACHER) we would take her to where she was going since she didn't have a ride. She came inside and started giving me all her contact info for the work order. Fine, right? Well, when I informed her of the diagnostic FEE and the procedure that if she got the repairs done we would waive the diagnostic fee and if not she would only owe that fee.......she gave me this blank stare. She then tells me she doesn't have $77 (diagnostic fee). I guess she thought we'd diagnose, fix, and deliver her car for FREE?????.....

Anyway, she calls her husband and he wants to come here to "look at it" and tow it away......last I checked towing costs more than $77, but whatever. Fine.

She then proceeds to ask if we could STILL take her to work...... I decided to go ahead and do it as the right thing to do, eventhough she's basically just told us to F@#k off AFTER we helped her. Whatever. I crank up the car and take her and her daughter the 6 or so miles to HER work and HER daughter's school. Here is where the story applies to this thread:

During that car ride, I'm making small talk with her and her daughter asking about school and what grade she's in....etc. She then asked me, "what do you think about the election?"........ So I proceeded to tell her that "it is, what it is...." To which she looked at me like I'd just cussed her mother out and said, "so you voted for Mccain????". Ummm, yes, I did as a matter of fact. She then proceeded to rattle off, almost verbatim, that we are "spending 10 billion dollars a month in Iraq when they have plenty of money and people here are losing their homes...." So I turned the tables and asked HER, why SHE voted for Obama. She REPEATED the same propaganda infomercial about the 10 billion dollars and actually used the words "we need CHANGE". She tried to turn the tables on me and asked me why I voted for Mccain, to which I rattled off several different reasons from Foreign Policy to Tax policy to stepping across party lines to experience. Yall know what she had to say???? "Well, I just think we need some CHANGE...." You're kidding me, right? THIS is not only someone that TEACHES young children as an authority figure, she's also a mother, AND voted for Obama????

Yall want to know why Obama won???? It is because there are millions of people just like this lady who have no clue the who, what, and where as to why they voted how they did. I'm not saying that all Obama supporters are like this, especially since we've had some incredibly intelligent discussions in here between both sides. What I am saying is that this morning's situation is a drop in the bucket of how a well designed marketing scheme combined with a biased media then fed to uninformed masses can indeed get you into the White House. Am I bitter? Heck no. It is, what it is. He won, so he's my new President. No big deal. It is, what it is. I'm not bitter at all in all truthfulness.

Moral of this story is that in my eyes this lady represented someone that could serve as the poster child for so many Obama supporters.......