Politics as Usual!

There are two things they tell you not to talk about in a professional setting....... RELIGION(we'll get to that down the road) and POLITICS. I usually try to avoid them but there is always someone that wants to shove their views down your throat! Now I know that everyone is entitled to their opinion and I'm okay with that. What I'm not okay with is when someone wants to express their point of view but not have anything valid to back it up with!!

I watch CNN for the better part of my day and I try to keep up with the daily news locally and nationally. I want to know what the hell is going on in my world so that I'm not clueless when someone asks me who the President is and I have no answer! So in the area of news and politics, I'm pretty well informed.

I have a client named........Lisa. Lisa is an older woman, maybe in her mid fifties. She works in the education field(Have mercy on us all!), has far too much energy than any one person should have and has "GEORGE W BUSH" stamped across her forehead and most likely tattooed on her ass!(yeah I know right??) I have been doing her hair for about 10 years now and over the past two years she has gotten to be a bit of a pill in the arena of politics.

Now I've always had alot of patience when it comes to clients and I guess the older I get, the more sensitive my BULLSHIT-O-METER gets. That is not a good thing when you're average service ticket is $125. But her $110 is costing me $150 in therapy!!

Lisa was in this morning and oh what treat it was for me. Today, the funeral of Ted Kennedy and low and behold as soon as she walked through the door she was already bugging that she wanted to watch it on TV while she was getting her hair done(you're kidding right?). FUN TIMES! While my thoughts go out to all of his family, my thoughts were also going out to me and gearing up for the events to come.

Here's the problem.......Because it is such a high profile event, not to mention highly political, naturally there will be many political figures attending. She may as well as hugged the TV when she saw her lord and savior W SHRUB, but when the camera then focused on President Obama I thought she was going to pull him through the screen give him "fitty whippins" and talk him to death!

This has been going on since before Obama took the Presidency and I have had to endure this over the last year and let me tell you it has not been easy. She of course blames him for all of the problems that he inherited from the last administration and when I ask her why........I never get a straight answer other than whatever she is repeating from something she may have heard on the local news or from the water cooler gatherings at work. OK can I just shoot her yet?

Unfortunately not(give me one more month) but today was the day that I could no longer keep my mouth shut and so I spewed! I was so tired of hearing her dog Obama and health care reform time after time and never giving me a decent reason. She began to tell me at one point that it was because he wants to create "death panels"(again.....something she probably just heard and was repeating). After hearing that I threw my scissors and comb down and forcefully said, "WHAT HAS HE EVER DONE TO YOU?.....REALLY.....WHAT HAS HE EVER DONE TO MAKE YOU HATE HIM SO MUCH??" She tried hard to get a few words in but I was DONE! I was no longer going to listen to the negativity and allow her to contaminate my mood so early in the morning!

I pushed more, "Can you do better than what he is doing?......If you can then maybe you should run for office" I tried hard not to get too passionate about it but I just couldn't help myself and I went further, "Do you have a solution to the health care problem??.......if you do then you should write it down, put it in an envelope and send it to your closest representative. At least he is trying to do something which is more than I can say for the idiot that was in office the last go round!" Now Obama was my personal choice because I was not going to sit through 4 possibly 8 more years of Bush via McCain. I can at least agree with the current administration that "doing something is better than doing nothing".

Ahhhhh! There it was.....all out in the open. I had finally gotten it off my chest and I guess she was stunned that I even said anything because she just sat quietly throughout the rest of her service. When it came time to pay, she handed the money to her husband to pay me and she quietly walked out the door. I had never really opened up to her about my political views and whenever she had brought up politics in the past, I tried very hard to adhere to the rules I was taught and not talk about it. But today, politics ruled! If she thinks that's bad.......

Wait until she hears what I think about GOD and RELIGION!!