A week or so ago, I posted about my oh-so-lovely encounter with the lady at the VFW who had all kinds of things to say about me, my service, my tattoos and my beliefs.
The week after that, we had to do the flag detail for a town parade, and I got to see her again.
Her "talking-to" (such as I think it probably was) and her response to me were astonishingly underwhelming, to say the least.
My fiancé and I were standing around, waiting to find out what we were going to be doing in the parade. Preacher Lady (as I've taken to calling her in my more ... polite moments) came walking up to me.
"The post commander talked to me, and I found out that you misunderstood what I said."
Okay, now I'm confused, because she wasn't really ambiguous in what she said, you know?
"Apparently, you thought I said to stay away from the post, when all I meant was to stay out of the honor guard."
Oh yeah, that's so much better. Sure, lady.
"So, you just misunderstood me."
Wow! I never thought I'd get Politician Answer Number One given to me personally! I'm so honored! /snark
"Well, that's fine, let's go with that, but ... that doesn't really address the rest of what you said."
"What do you mean?"
... Are you kidding me? But okay, I'll play along with your "amnesia".
"You know, how I shame the Marine Corps? I shame the military? I took an oath to serve god?"
Her response to that? She stared at me for a minute, then walked away.
So for all of that, I got the Classic Republican "You Misunderstood Me" Form Response A, and a complete disregard of the rest of what she said.
Really, I shouldn't be surprised. But on the upside, I didn't have to come home and whale on my Playstation 3 controllers for an hour to feel better.
On top of that, I found out that I didn't even get accosted by another member of the VFW - I got accosted by a yeoman in the Fleet Reserve Association. It'd be one thing to be lectured by someone else who'd at least effing deployed, but to be bitched at by a paper pusher? That made my eye twitch.
Ah well. I handled it via the appropriate chain of command, the obnoxious woman leaves me alone, and I've now established a history with her so if she attempts to do something like that again, I will not be so accommodating to her nonsense.