I guess I was already having a bad day... [View all]

[PCIntern]

yesterday, Friday, at the end of a VERY long day...(dentists are inundated with pre-weekend 'emergency' visits - the tooth has been hurting for six weeks but "what if it gets worse over the weekend??!" - and I was just worn out from the tumult.

So this guy shows up in the late afternoon, and he hears that I have MSNBC on in my private office with the sound turned up a bit, and he says, "shame that kid had a drug problem and did that..."
I went right to Defcon 1. I retorted instantly, "I don't think it's a drug problem, I think he wanted to kill black people and maybe he really wanted to kill an articulate, charismatic state senator." His reply was, "I don't know about that." My reply to him: "Well, I guess you don't know much about much because before he assassinated the senator and murdered the other eight he said something about his women being raped by their kind. Just like Mr. Trump did the other day talking about people coming over the border."

Silence ensued.

I then took care of his trivial problem and sent him on his way. And to answer the questions:

1. I didn't bring it up, he did.
2. One patient more or less is irrelevant. 200 nice people would be great, one here and there at this stage of my career is meaningless.
3. I'm good and goddamned sick of the RW meme. You wanna do this elsewhere, that's your right and your business. In my business, in my home, I'm not gonna listen to it passively. I dont' HAVE to treat anyone if I'm not in the middle of a case and I sure as hell don't have to put up with anyone's bullshit and lies. Not at age 62 I don't. Nothing ever seems to make a difference in this country: all those kids were murdered in Connecticut and in no time at all there's poison out there that these kids never existed - that the massacre was all a lie set up by the Obama Administration so that they could take the precious guns away. There are no depths to which these creeps will not sink. It's a Nazification of the United States and it's DISGUSTING that it's allowed to persist and grow exponentially.