you’re one of them

While waiting at the checkout at the supermarket yesterday, the guy ahead of me was talking to the cashier.  The checker-outer was a teenager, I’m guessing late teens and the checkout-ee, the guy with the groceries, was an older middle aged man.  They were talking sports, Mets – Yankees.  The kid was a Mets fan.  In New York there is an alignment of fan loyalty and these two were discussing it. “Yeah”, the older one said, “Yankees, Giants, Rangers – Jets, Mets, Islanders”.

The kid says, “Yankees, then you’re probably Republican”, (think Rudy Giuliani) but the customer denied it. “So, you’re going to vote for Obama?” asks the checkout guy.

The other guy answers, “I don’t know if I can vote for him”, then he adds, “I don’t know who I’m going to vote for”.

I’ve just read an article about undecided voters and a study done in Italy showed that quite a few undecided voters aren’t really as undecided as they might profess. (I think there’s just a couple o’ guys up there and this asshole is one of them! ¹)

 

1. Dawson:  Silverado (1985)