see-sawing

May 24, 2008 kaitlyncrenshaw

Yesterday when I was at the gym, I saw this woman working out close to me. She was wearing Daisy Duke workout shorts that were extremely tight, and a workout bra, and nothing else (well, shoes). This woman wasn’t Jabba the Hut, but she definitely wasn’t America’s next top model either. This wasn’t the first time I’ve seen her working out in next to nothing. And it BOTHERED me! I really did not want to see 90% of her skin. I really wanted her to go put some clothes on. Not because she had fat jiggling around everywhere or anything like that- she didn’t. And then I wondered why it was bothering me, and I thought about other “non-conservative” things that bother me. There’s this guy at my bank who’s probably in his late 20s or early 30s. I go to the bank once a week and he is the teller pretty much every time I’m there, and he’s always like- “Hey, man, what’s up?” “Yo.” “So what do you wanna do with this thing, cash it?” (Ok and on top of this he is a complete jackass. He does things like ask me if I have an account with them when I just wrote the account number on the check I just freakin endorsed.) Is it weird that I would just rather him be like, “Hi, how can I help you today?” and give me my damn money and that be the end of it. I don’t want someone who is acting like a kid doing my bank transactions, I want someone who knows how to act like a professional.

But then on the other hand someone walking around with a million piercings and tattoos doesn’t bother me, and those things beg for just as much attention as someone walking around half-naked. I don’t care if you get drunk at the bar and I’ll even join you at a dive club where I will undoubtedly have tons of fun despite the roaches and rats and cheap beer but I count my pennies religiously and I’m a staunch advocate of the second amendment who still happens to believe that under most circumstances a woman should have the right to choose. I am a Christian who believes wholly in the separation of Church and State and I think the Religious Right is more like the Religious Wrong, because if the government and politicians try to force people to be Christians, they will become resentful and it will make it harder for us to ever truly turn them to Christ, and I believe that if you don’t like gay marriages then don’t get one, but I want you to put some clothes on, damnit!

I would never identify myself with a specific political party because of this. Because the minute I call myself a Democrat (because I would die before calling myself a Republican) some candidate will come along and change what people think about Democrats. So I guess I’m just a moderate.

“I’m not a hippie who only eats organic and meditates and goes to the school of the arts. But I’m not apple pie and Republican either.”

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