And... I had a conversation with a COVID denier here. 😅 Now I have an opening anecdote for my newsletter this week.
Just going to say that I never feel prouder than when I can navigate a *very* delicate conversation in a second language.
More later! 😘
@MLClark You have a remarkable and enviable amount of patience.
😅 Oh I don't know if I envy me.
It's a slightly different cultural context here, too. COVID denial isn't tightly interwoven into a whole host of other toxic, racist, authoritarian-leaning BS as it is in the West.
So, patience is a touch easier. :)
@MLClark I was sitting in my local pub, chatting with whomever is nearby and willing, as I occasionally do.This one fellow was pretty drunk but amusing enough. Suddenly, though, he made a hard right turn and started comparing vaccines to the Holocaust. I got up and said, "you're nuts and this conversation is over. I'm going over there. Don't follow me." He didn't follow so that was that. But that kind of thing takes all the fun out of going to the local pub.
Ugh. I wholeheartedly understand. I had a local pub that became *exhausting* in Canada because fellows would take a perfectly charming chat and turn it into a chance to ask me if I thought feminism had gone too far, or some other such tedious nonsense.
I now live in a land with *very* few craft options - so I have to ask, to live vicariously through others: what's your brew of choice, when you're not too busy dealing with folks who could use a little more time "fermenting"? 🙃
@MLClark oy, yeah people can be tiresome. Had a great chat going with a guy in that same pub. We spent an hour talking about all our favorite old movies. I made the mistake of mentioning that the older I got, the leftier I got. He told me that I was what was wrong with America today and wouldn't speak to me the rest of the night. Guess it's the reverse of the first story.