My close brush with Pataki...what would you guys have done???

[Runcible Spoon]

Last weekend, I was invited out to meet my boyfriend's grandparents, and they took us to this quaint, understated but VERY OLDSCHOOL Italian restuarant in Westchester County. Lots of older wealthy Italians, great food, we met the owners, and my BF's grandparents gossiped about the patrons they knew, including "connected" patrons (wink wink knudge knudge). And then the conversation turns to politics and I find out that the grandparents are competely repukes. whatever, I can live with that. Then the restaurant owner comes up and announces that Pataki is probably coming in for dinner, and how he comes there like once a month and lives 15 minutes away! WELL dear DUers, I sat there with intense personal turmoil, not knowing what to do if he actually showed up! Risk alienating potential future family, or just sit there and be the quiet demure girl I was pretending to be? I was eventualyl spared the choice, since we left around 7, and he was slated to come in at 8. But considering my BF's grandparents have been frequenting this restuarant for 30+ years, it is likely we will go there again, and maybe I will get the chance...what would you guys do??? I think I couldn't do much more than muster a "Spitzer 2006!" but who knows....

[tk2kewl]

1. Ask him about that Erie land deal

or simply what has he done for NY? I'd like to hear that one

[Runcible Spoon]

4. yeah so would I....

just worried about getting my ass arrested in front of the grandparents!

[CBHagman]

2. I think your only option is coolness.

You're in a situation where everyone's comfort and dignity is on the line. If politics is completely unavoidable, you could say you are very passionate about your beliefs and values, and that you stand for X, Y and Z.

And if you encounter Pataki, well, what else can you do but give the cold glance? I'm afraid a scene (My own fantasy is screaming, "You're a disgrace to Hungarian-Americans!") is out of the question.

[Runcible Spoon]

7. I think you're right...

wow have I changed...5 years ago, I would have INSISTED on staying until he got there! But yeah a cold glance would have still been pretty satisfying, and not legally actionable.

[Radical Activist]

3. Pie in the face

that makes a good political statement. ;)

[Runcible Spoon]

5. oh nonononooono! that tiramisu was MUCH too tasty

to throw on the likes of Puketaki....I'll bring my own shit pie in instead! :evilgrin:

[Radical Activist]

9. mmmm...tiramisu should not be wasted

just a whip cream shit pie is a good idea.

[Runcible Spoon]

10. well, I'll need a TRIPLE DOG DARE to work up the proverbial

guts to do that!

[Radical Activist]

14. There is a long tradition

of making a serious political statement by throwing a pie in the face of a hated political figure. You would be famous too. Check it out:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=3954

And if your boyfriend dumps you for doing it I'll ask you out because that would be a super cool thing to do.

[Runcible Spoon]

15. heee! I wanna be infamous!

I don't think my BF would dump me, he'd laugh his ass off! If I end up married to him we'd prolly be cut out of the will which financially doesn't bother me but their house in Spain woulda been nice....BTW that site is scary :scared: On edit, we can still flirt ;)

[Smarmie Doofus]

6. You might ask him how he could ....

appoint Senator Vellella's octogenarian ( and, reputedly, "connected", wink, wink) dad as head of the Bronx County Board of Elections shortly before the old gent asks to be declared "legally incompetent" to avoid jailtime in his son's bribery plea deal.

Only in New York. ( Actually, probably in Ohio, too. And Florida, of course. And.... etc. etc. etc.)

[Runcible Spoon]

8. WOW you guys should just make me up a list and we can vote on it........

i prolly won't have time for mroe than one question before I get hauled away!

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. "Excuse, Mr. Pataki, but I was wondering - does the shit go all the way

to the top of your head, or does it level-off somewhere around the ears?"

[Runcible Spoon]

12. heh, but why ask rhetorical questions we all know the answers to?

:evilgrin:

[FarLeftRage]

13. I would have probably told him

to "drop dead" or "go f**k yourself, oh wacky pataky"

[Runcible Spoon]

16. I'm still waiting to be triple dog dared into the pie...

plus I'd get a date with radical activist! BONUS!

[FarLeftRage]

17. Okay, I'm game...

I triple... no,no wait I quadruple dog dare ya to!

And this from a far-Leftist/radical activist!!

[Runcible Spoon]

19. do I get a date with you too?

:evilgrin:

[FarLeftRage]

21. Only if

your BF wouldn't mind... :evilgrin: :evilgrin:

[glaeken777]

18. here's my .02

"Mr. Pataki, I'd have a lot more respect for you, as would a lot of other NYers, if you didn't run again for governor." Then smile, perhaps shake his hand, and leave him there wondering.

[Runcible Spoon]

20. that's actually along the lines of what my BF said he would have done....

but isn't republicanism rub off on you? I try not to touch them without gloves!