The Restaurant owner ...

I won't name names. I'll just post DMs.

The restaurant owner reached out to me a few months ago. He was mad about an old Truth OC post concerning his bombastic mix of business and hard-right conservative politics.

He fired off this …

I’d somehow missed it until last night. I responded with this …

And then, well …

Shit got ugly.

Profoundly ugly.

And vile.

Here is what he wrote …

Then, this exchange …

And a part of me wants to name the dude, though (if I’m being honest) it’s not hard to figure this one out. After all, why protect someone who flips around “faggot” with such cavalier indifference and brio? Why grant him a shadow? Also, not for nothing, is he naive to the fact that an occasional gay customer just might enter his establishment? Are only straight white men dining these days?

Weird shit.

Anyhow, I thought about it. And thought about it. And thought about it. Ultimately, the guy is a sad, ignorant, aging, homophobic man, shuffling through life, bitter at the libs, barking at parking meters, wondering why everyone is after him and questioning whether the birds are government tracking devices.

I will let him be.

I will let him wallow in his own narrow slice of life.