This is a very long (5 day) weekend for me. So I’m trying to get a lot of work done. One job I’m working on involves straightening out a side wall on a garage a few blocks from my house. In return for working on the place, I get to rent it. Last summer I put a roof on it, this spring I’m replacing the damaged sill plate and straightening the wall.

Anyway I’m at the most critical point of the operation. I’ve got the entire corner of the garage supported by an eight foot 4×4 resting on the 2 inch square top of a bottle jack. Precarious is an understatement for this situation. Just as I go to slide the wall into place on the new sill plate two polish guys come down the road. The one, lets call him Drunk, asks me in broken english if his friend can sit in the garage and drink his beer. He says they are afraid of cops. “Sure”, I respond, “But it’s dangerous”. The one very drunk guy, lets call him Drunker, goes into the deathtrap garage and starts drinking his beer. The other guy looks at me uncomfortably and decides to start talking about… wait for it…. POLITICS! Of all the subjects. Anyway here is a breif idea of what went on:

Civil Liberties

Drunk: A friend of mine get $800 ticket for drinking beer on street. Stupid.

Drunker: mother <expletive> cops

Me: That is pretty stupid. Can you drink beer on the street in Poland.

Drunk: Yes, if you speak polish.

Drunk: My friend also get ticket for make pee on street.

Me: Bummer

Drunk: It stupid. You not have to go in an hour, you have to go now.

Me: I don’t think it’s a big issue if you do it behind a garage or something. Dogs do it all the time.

Drunker: <expletive> <expletive>

The upcoming election

Drunk: Who will be president of US?

Me: I think Obama. I certainly don’t think it will be McCain.

Drunk: But Obama is a… <n-word>

Me: People like him.

Drunk: But he’ll make us pay for other <n-word>s.

Me: I think either democrat will make us pay for other people.

Drunker: <expletive> democrats, crazy.

Drunk: Hillary would be good because of experience. Also economy good during Bill. All I care about is economy. You go to store and you see economy not good, even though CNN say different.

Me. I don’t think the economy is so hot.

Drunk: McCain no good, he from war. Crazy.

War

Drunk: I work for a guy from vietnam war. He say you have to do drugs to go in bush. He crazy

Drunker: <expletive> crazy

Me: War sucks.

Drunk: You need cocaine to fight war. It make you crazy

So there you have it. Two random polish guys talking about politics. Drunk launched into a diatribe about collectivism, basically him repeating that he only wants to pay for his cigarettes and his beer, but it was hard to make out a lot of what he said. It should be noted that when these guys dropped the n-bomb, they did so as if it was any other word. I think it’s the only way they know of for referring to black people.

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Apparently he’s not doing well. He has hepatitis C which he got in Vietnam and temporal arteritis. Says he’s planning on trying to educate people about his views on assisted suicide. It’s been 8 years already. Hopefully he’ll be able to convince a few people.