Friday, September 08, 2006
We were shut down in less than four days into it
These are strange times we live in today. People of a certain political ideology cannot handle any opposing views whatsoever.
Our business is located in downtown Bel Air, MD which has housed Jesse Bane for Sheriff Campaign headquarters. We did not like to be silently lumped in with something we ideologically disagreed. So, I got in touch with Norm Cochran for Sheriff Campaign and requested some signs. Mrs. Cochran was kind to bring them to us. God bless her, she was terrified when she realized where she was. We were excited to see her and invited her in. There would be a diversity of political opinions in our building now. We were surprised at how quickly the communistic nature of our neighbors asserted itself.
A little background, I immigrated from former
So we put our signs up. It's sad to say that our neighbors quickly became quite angry. We watched Mr. Bane's volunteers walk around our windows, panting, shaking their heads and folding their hands in frustration. We were amused at their reaction. What's the big deal? It's just a sign. But they wouldn't dare talk to us. If they had just talked to us maybe we would have put up few of their signs :) with a note attached "These people paid us," or something :). It's ideology, not a war. On the third day, angry landlord rushed into our office. He made us take the signs down. And it was not the only time he expressed his outrage in the next few days. Next morning while we were in a meeting, Mr. Bane walked in. He looked like a scared puppy with its tail tucked between its legs. He kindly thanked us for taking the signs down, bowed and walked out. I wonder if this is how Mr. Bane plans to fight crime in
In all of this, our neighbors never deviated from the way their party in general fight their political battles these days. They never confront their opponents in the arena of ideas and try to win them over. But they attempt to outlaw their ideology and destroy them on a personal and not on ideological level.
Thursday, January 20, 2005
I finally figured it out, my boss is a Nepali Jew
One of the jobs that I do in the evening, I work at Nepali and Indian Restaurants, delivering food. It's a small business. Occasionally my boss forgets to pay me on time. I tease him about it. Today. I had to remind him again. I asked him three times what date was it today. He finally aswered that it was the nineteenth. I asked him if it meant anything special. he smiled. I laughed and replied that he was three days late. So, he walked away. And I started thinking, where else was I forced to inquire about my pay check. And I remembered, it was when I worked for Touro College, a Jewish college in New York City. This is the only Nepali boss I've ever had. So, I have no point of reference with Nepali bosses. So, I got a wild idea. Could my boss belong to one of the ten lost tribes of Israel that got lost in Nepal? So, I came up with four reasons which prove that he could be a Jew. Reason #1, he uses GUILT to motivate his employees. Reason #2, he is a tight wad. Reason #3, he conveniently forgets to pay his employees on time. And the last but not least reason of all, #4 is his wife's maiden name is the same as her married name. They are from the same village of cause and they use letters to distinguish the families because everyone in the vilage has the same last name. So far, I've been teasing my boss by telling him that if he ever decides to move to Israel and will have to prove that he is a Jew, I can testify on his behalf in the Israeli Immigration Court. I think my testimony will get him immigration status without any other questions. :) Although we'll have to work on discouraging of some of his pagan practices like his devotion to this fat, crazy fellow, named Ganesh who used to run around mountains and hills, wearing elephant mask before he got old enough for Hindis to make him into a god. :)
