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Pamela Cummins's avatar

It’s tough being trapped in a car with someone trying to force their beliefs on you. And you handled it well.

As a 'Damn Yankee' living in the South, I refuse to talk about politics, especially with strangers. Even if we have the same beliefs. My husband and I have different political views, and we agreed not to talk about it because our love is more important.

I’ve learned to shut them down immediately by saying, “I don’t talk politics, not even with my husband.” Some continue to talk, so I go silent and try to change the subject. Or walk away. If I’m stuck like you were, I scroll through my phone and ignore them. Purrhaps, I should start talking about my 5 cats 😻

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Preston's avatar

I guarantee if you start talking about your cats they’ll probably be quiet. Their loss of course. But it’ll shut them down I’m sure haha

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Pamela Cummins's avatar

😹 My new tactic!

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Preston's avatar

Honestly I am curious to see how well this works lol

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Kathy Enriquez-Nguyen's avatar

1 star review. Too bad you can't mute or block people irl eh?

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Preston's avatar

lol if he keeps up with that bull shit plenty of other people will give him a 1 star. I just let him sit with the awkward and how I responded 🤣 glad you enjoyed reading!

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Kathy Enriquez-Nguyen's avatar

LOL orrr he’ll find his people. But yah i wouldn’t even know how to deal with that sort of behaviour . You handled it like a champ

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Preston's avatar

Killed him with kindness and dared him to champion people losing their jobs.

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Kathy Enriquez-Nguyen's avatar

Killing with kindness is the best haha

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Preston's avatar

His one word responses lol I was like…yeah. Checkmate dude.

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lunafaer (she/they)'s avatar

one of the first times i ever took an uber the driver was playing a religious talk radio show. if i had been alone i would have asked him to turn it off (it was incredibly offensive) but my partner was begging me not to say anything.

then you can’t really give them the 1 star review they deserve because you can’t explain why.

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Preston's avatar

Yeah, this guy is gonna have it coming for him if he keeps up with that line of questioning, so I’m letting the universe handle it haha. Like honestly, why would you choose to be an objectively service oriented position just to try and offend/trigged people? I’ll never understand that.

Thank you for reading and commenting!

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