#Preach

Last Tuesday..

Working where I work, I hear many exciting 'conversations' between the security staff and our customers. That's a given. And it's why I don't fall asleep some nights! Tonight however, a whole new level exciting.

There's a girl here, just a regular girl, who needs the Amateur Night cash prize. That's no shocker. But the brain inside her head? Geezes.

She's a frigging ball of energy. "POSITIVE energy," she said very confidently. And she wasn't lying.

One of our bouncers made the mistake of DOUBTING that her energy was contagious, and the excitement ensued. She said that if you spend enough time with her, you'll be all smiles too, and he said that would be impossible. She pointed out that if you're a generally angry person, and you've allowed yourself to get comfortable in your angriness, then you're obviously less susceptible to other's happiness.

Then she mentioned the point that 'everyone is equal' and he refuted that point, too. And while he is entirely entitled to his opinion, she went OFF, and with such conviction!

"It's people like you, who believe society when they say that everyone belongs in one box or another, that KEEP us in those boxes!" He said that economy, and race separates us naturally, and she said that they don't need to. He didn't believe her when she answered yes to, "So if there was a dirty homeless guy standing next to me, you'd talk to us both the same, and give him just as much of your POSITIVE ENERGY?" But I believed her.

He defended himself by saying that he fought freedom and equality (He did fight in Afghanistan, and bless him for that), and she said the most profound thing you'll ever hear in a strip club. Not only is she confident and convicted enough to be debating someone she just met, and an 'authority' figure, she said "Well then you lost! You lost that war regardless, if you came back still believing that certain people belong in certain categories and should be treated as such!"

Segregation is an UNWRITTEN rule, one that people follow because society tells us to, but one that we can't legally be punished for breaking.

Maybe it's one of those, 'You had to be there' situations..but I'm still covered in this feeling of IMPRESSED. I felt the same way she did, but I don't know if I'd ever be confident enough to shove it in some (practical) stranger's face. Plus, I work here so I feel the need to be quiet, and well-mannered, unlike her, who told a guy, "When you're getting to admire hot, naked women all night, the last thing you should be doing is complaining about a $5 cover charge!"

My hero. Lol

I need to start yelling more.

Kind of makes me miss the college classes full of heated debates. I need more well-spoken, intelligent, strong-minded folk in my life.