back to the topic of being polite in mixed company.
a while back, my in laws... STAUNCH liberals.. ( they have posed pictures with Hillary and another prominent dem.. escapes me whom...)
had a party.. can't remember if it was a birthday or anniversary
anyway.. all their friends were there... many from the postal workers union where they worked for many years and were active in union business etc...
so i go outside and sit at one of two picnic tables with my niece and we talk about her softball team etc.. eating our burgers
a few of the guests come out and sit down.. most look normal... but probably 4 of the 10 had blue/purple hair... and were kind of out there... i just say hi, how you doing... they do same... and sit down at the two tables around us
a couple sat in front of me... and i asked them how they were etc... and where they were from ... and how they knew my inlaws... and we had a great convo about families etc
as we were talking I could here the table next to us talking about Trump and what an idiot he is... and all kinds of stuff.. just whining etc.. i just ignored it.
but the lady in front of me started to piggy back on it and tried to get our table talking about it...
she said she just couldn't understand how anyone could support him.. etc.. and wouldn't feel comfortable being around anyone like that and was glad that my inlaws were dems and wouldn't invite someone like that
i changed the subject immediately.. asking the husband... ( he had mentioned cars earlier) what kind of car he liked... was he ford/ chevy/dodge etc.. and the started telling me about a car he was redoing and showed me pics... and we had another 10 minutes of fun
all this time she started in on the other side of the table.. continuing her complaints
again. i asked one of the other guests something about what they had mentioned earlier... and got the convo going in that direction...
pretty soon, tired of me changing channels on her.. she asked me what I thought of Trump
i said, well , he is an idiot... but given the alternative... and btw, i am a republican...
my niece and I were alone within 3 minutes