So I was in a real live Freeperville today

[GreenPartyVoter]

We went to a military surplus store to pick up old ammo boxes for making geo-caches. They had a rack of bumperstickers. You know the ones: "Wife and dog missing. Reward for Dog". "Serve your country. Go overseas, protect freedom. Come home and get shit on by a liberal." Saw a kid with a shaved head looking at a gun that looked like it belonged to Al Pacino in "Scarface". He had a lovely faux leather jacket with a "skinhead" patch sewn on to it. (I mean it actually said 'skinhead')

Kept crossing paths with a portly, bearded older gentleman as we traipsed around the store looking for ammo boxes sans munitions. Traded a few smiles each time we bumped into each other. He seemed amused by my small fry running around, "Wow, mom lookit! They have real guns. And coon caps. Mom can I have one of those?"

But as we left the store the older gentleman followed us out. Turns out he was parked next to us. Had a green Forrester just like my lil bro's and on the back was this bumpersticker, "Peace is patriotic".

Have to say that was pretty darn cool. :D

[mitchum]

1. That is pretty cool about the older gentleman...

and I also wonder if the freeper owner of the place realizes that Leftists may also be in there buying arms? Probably not, since he seems to be someone who lives in a world of stereotypes and cliche.

[Katherine Brengle]

2. ^5 for a happy ending :) and ^5 to comment about libs arming

themselves, lol. Who knows, might not be so funny in the near future...

[Ksec]

3. Cool older guy

Hey, I found one of those geo caches the other day while walking through a local cemetery. It was an ammo box loaded with all kind of stuff, trinkets, a dollar, paper and pencils. I looked at it thinking WTF? Anyways after I read some of the stuff inside I realized that this was one of these geocaches.

I put it back in the brush where I found it.

.......

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. What's a geo-cache?

[Ksec]

7. Well

Im no expert but like I said, the one I found was a metal ammo box full of trinkets and costume jewelry, and instructions. You put something in it, sign it and hide it, I think.

Then someone else does the same thing. They end up traveling all over the place.
Edited to say I really dont know how they work .

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Kind of like a traveling time capsule?

Neat.

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. It's like a modern day treasure hunt that you

use a GPS for instead of a paper map. You sign the guestbook and bring something to swap with the previous contents. So far we have picked up foreign coins and left some little centiemes from France. We also got a matchbox car. We're making a photo record of our finds and take a camera wherever we go hunting. Today it was in an Audubaun Society preserve. Very cool!

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. That sounds really fun

[ebayfool]

13. Grown-ups treasure hunt? (Looks kinda fun!)

http://www.geocaching.com/about/

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What is Geocaching?

Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for gps users. Participating in a cache hunt is a good way to take advantage of the wonderful features and capability of a gps unit. The basic idea is to have individuals and organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the internet. GPS users can then use the location coordinates to find the caches. Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards. All the visitor is asked to do is if they get something they should try to leave something for the cache.


on edit:
Oops! What GreenPartyVoter said (^ up there!), LOL!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

5. I always thought shaved heads were the "secret insignia" of skinheads.

Rendering any commemorative patches unnecessary. :shrug:

[catmother]

6. well you had a pleasant surprise.

:dem:

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. Yes, and I needed it because I was getting pretty judgmental and

feeling ridiculously self-righteous by the time I walked out of there. That bumper sticker was a good ego-check. :blush:

[FreedomAngel82]

9. Nice

I like the bumpersticker. Reminds me of the John Kerry quote: "patriotism includes protest." :D I know I'd feel kinda weary going in there. Heh heh. And as a woman I find it very horrible of the woman/dog one. Ugh!

[Nevernose]

12. My local surplus store has Nazi "costumes" -- good store otherwise

There's some foul language later in the post, if that sort of thing offends you

To clarify: I'd been there a few times getting camping supplies. They have a great variety of everything you could ever want. Entrenching tools, cooking equipment, clothing, lanterns, that sort of thing. GREAT prices on high quality navy surplus wool blankets, too.

There was a lot of straight military stuff, too, like patches and whatnot, but no RW bumperstickers. I figured that even of the owners were right wingers, I'd tolerate it as long as they didn't shove it down my throat.

That's until I discovered the back room, filled with various Nazi, neo-Nazi, and pseudo-Nazi uniforms, like something out of "Pulp Fiction." My young daughter, pointing at a swastika flag, said "Daddy, didn't you say that thing was bad?" I went into what my friends call the RAGING TEXAN mode, generaly behaving like a jackass, knocking shit off the shelves, screaming at other customers, shouting in a thick East Texas twang "My grandaddy didn't storm the fucking beaches of Normandy so's his grandchildren would have too look at this shit! Goddamned fascist motherfuckers! Fuckin' Nazi bastards! Fuck you you fuckin' nazis! This is AMERICA you fuckin' Nazi sunsabitches!"

I got out before they could shoot me or call the cops.

On the one hand I feel ashamed to have acted that way in front of an eight year old girl. It was most definitely NOT productive, mature, or acceptable behavior. On the other hand, I feel so proud -- I demonstrated the proper response when confronted when that sort of thing.

Be proud that you're a white amerikan
Blond hair, bule eyes - a fine new aryan?
Supremacy's the white man's burden?

A final solution for all new aryans...
Death to the nazis and the ku klux klan!
Anarchy in the fatherland!

Reagan Youth

[XemaSab]

15. We live in a VERY right wing area

We saw a Chevy Suburban parked in a parking lot that had a sticker on the back with a picture of W that said "Like A Rock" and underneath in small letters it said

"only dumber"

It's good to see that sort of thing in conservative areas. :D