My car got keyed a few nights a go. Actually someone took a knife to it and did $2,400 worth of damage. 5 panels have to be repainted and the glass on my hatchback has to be replaced. Someone thinks I'm scum. He hates me and everything I represent. I wonder if it's because I'm a liberal. I wonder if he thinks I'm a lover of black men and homosexuals who kills babies in my spare time. (Plug in a few racial slurs to derive what I believe he really said.)
On Facebook I left the following comment:
To the person who keyed my car. FYI. I spent many hours helping to get President Obama reelected. I spent 60 hours the last 4 days of the campaign helping him win Florida. We won. Key that.
I got a lot of feedback from my friends. I had to clarify this person does not represent all Republicans because he, I assume this is a man, is a vandal and a creep. He may not even vote. He's just too stupid to form a sophisticated opinion that doesn't include retaliation for free speech.
I parked next to a huge black truck with Oklahoma plates that night. It had camo paint and a POW/MIA sticker on the back of it. I joked with my mom that the truck was so big because he was compensating for something. I don't know if it was him, but I'd never seen that truck before and the next morning this was done. Now I see that truck in the parking lot and I don't quite know what to do.
I really don't want to start a fight with someone who drives a big truck with a POW/MIA sticker on it. It's reasonable to conclude he has a gun. If this person has moved to my complex then when I get my car back I have to wonder if it will just happen again.
We are moving in September but how many times does my car have to get slashed? I feel like such a coward because there is nothing I can do to protect myself. All I can do is hope he will do something for the office to tow him. Retaliation would only cause this to happen again.
I admit it. I'm afraid of wingnuts with guns and this guy has proven himself to be one. He told me to shut up and I'm still a loudmouth online but I'm really concerned about what he'll do to my car. I've never wanted to move more in my life than I do right now.
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