Other day I was at the DMV to renew my license.  Norman DMV is really bad.  Only two employees.  Only nine driving tests a day.  Watched several folks get royally pissed, they’d waiting since six in the AM, etc.  Amongst them one scary man with face tattoos.  Sitting in the waiting room, angry mom sitting next to me in a pea coat with watery blue grey eyes.  I know it’s only a matter of time till someone says it, and she does: “This is how the government runs things?  And they want to turn health care over to the government?”  Of course, statement is full of holes, oversimplification.  Or maybe not.  Gentlemen in camouflage hat, camouflage jacket, camouflage pants, says, “Obama wants to take away my guns and give em to Osama!”  And then the woman says “I don’t care that they waterboarded those people!”  Just like that, one two three.  Like these people’s hateful subconscious were non-sequituring all over the floor.  The camo guy went on to tell me about his boy who’s a brigadier general.  He looks a little young for a son, but he might have been talking about a brother or a friend.  I talk to him like he’s lying, I can’t help it.  He asks me if Sidewinders is still in Lawton.  I tell him as far as I know.  I’m still disturbed about the woman saying torture was okay.  She doesn’t lose sleep for one second, she said.  Eh.  I guess I don’t either, but it’s wrong.

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