Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

[catelin]

Ok, here's the deal....I kept quiet about it with the shitstorm of tirades and anger going on but I'm not going to anymore. A couple of days after all this happened, I was just hitting the random journal button. I do that sometimes just to see how many journals I can find out of 5 or 10 that are actually maintained by someone over 12. You know what I'm talking about, baby! Anyway, that's a whole other pet peeve of mine....so on with this. So out of the blue pops up this journal----and I'm looking at Arabic! It kind of freaked me out for a second...but then I just thought, "Weird!" So I'm checking out this journal and thinking how bizarre it was to run across a Saudi journal in the midst of all this Arab-bashing that's been going on...and I think to myself, there's got to be some strange reason why that came up...or if it's just random, it's certainly some sort of opportunity to do some kind of something. So I said "hello" and introduced myself to this 45-year-old Saudi who likely got on here looking for chicks (unless he's really into the 60s! Hee!). His English may be a little broken, but it's a hell of a lot better than my Arabic; and he seems like a decent enough sort. It doesn't take a lot of English to communicate polite apprehension about people hating you just because of where you're from...which is what endeared him to me in the first place. So I've added him to my friends list and I hope that some of you will say hello to him and make him more a part of things. Please be nice!!!! I don't agree with him on everything and you may not either, but I would hope that he will see the best of what we are...and not the worst. I was really hesitant about even bringing him to anyone's attention, because I don't want to be sorry for it later. I asked him, though, and he's ok with it, so I will be too. So meet my new friend, Abdallah, everyone.

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[tully-monster.livejournal.com]

Added.

So, does this mean he loves women born in '69, or what? :)

I never have much luck hitting the random journal button...usually, I do better by searching my friends' posts.

Unfortunately, a large number of people much older than me are turning out to be people whose entries and responses I don't particularly want to be reading right now. You'd think they would know better, after all the shit their generation claims to have been through and done, but it's apparently turning out to be mostly talk.

Ha!

[catelin.livejournal.com]

Let's hope that's what it means! ; ) I know what you mean, though, about being disappointed. I am on the tail-end of the baby boomers and the dawn of gen-x'ers...so I never really fit in. I have been really surprised at a lot of things people have done and said here. Some people that I really liked before have shown such ugly faces and love of fanning everyone's flames...and others that I didn't know that well have impressed me in ways that I would have never expected. So far it's an even trade, so it's not nearly as bad as it could be, I suppose.