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oh I hate these... hate them with a raging passion...
Just a precursor disclaimer - many of the loaches I have encountered at airports want to discuss politics - I have never have and never will have any interest in politics and refuse to listen or be part of any discussions of such. This post is not about politics at all - it is just the context.
Anyways, there i was at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia, in transit from Brisbane back home to Tokyo - I was tired (early start after a busy week - not tourism) and in no mood for any conversation. I was just sitting in the terminal, using the free Wi-fi they have at that airport and sipping from a bottle of water.
Anyways, loach came over and sat down next to me. After a short while, he started to make 'ahem' like noises - nowadays, I totally ignore these. These continued for a couple of minutes, so was not too annoying.
But if that were the only thing the loach did, then I would not be writing this now would I?
After a couple more minutes, I shut down my laptop and put it away and was writing some notes when the loach spoke - the first thing he said was:
'What do you think of Obama?'
I did not answer, he then waved his hand in front of me and repeated his question - it was then I made the mistake with loaches - I replied with...
'I don't' (remember, politics has no interest whatsoever to me)
the rest of the 'conversation' went like this:
Loach: 'But you gotta have an opinion'
Me: 'I don't' (that is the truth, I don't have an opinion about anything to do with politics).
Loach: 'want to know what I think?'
Me: 'no'
Loach: 'free speech says you have to' (with an expctant look on its face)
Me: 'no, please leave me alone'
Loach: 'so, you violatin' my rights to free speech?'
Me: 'go away, now'
Loach: 'I think that Obama is...'
Me: 'GO AWAY, NOW!' - not quite yelling, but in a moderately projected teacher like voice.
Loach: 'Fine, I thought you were cool'
Me: 'Irrelevant, goodbye' and I went back to writing my notes.
This thing went to sevral other passengers, interestingly as most were Japanese, the language barrier stopped him in his tracks.
On the plane, thank oodness he was seated quite a distance from me, and the young lady next to him seemed to have put on her earphones VERY quickly.
I know I may seem rude, but I m like that when I am very tired and with a lot of more important things on my mind, and like I said, I have always refused to involve myself in any way with politics.
Just a precursor disclaimer - many of the loaches I have encountered at airports want to discuss politics - I have never have and never will have any interest in politics and refuse to listen or be part of any discussions of such. This post is not about politics at all - it is just the context.
Anyways, there i was at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia, in transit from Brisbane back home to Tokyo - I was tired (early start after a busy week - not tourism) and in no mood for any conversation. I was just sitting in the terminal, using the free Wi-fi they have at that airport and sipping from a bottle of water.
Anyways, loach came over and sat down next to me. After a short while, he started to make 'ahem' like noises - nowadays, I totally ignore these. These continued for a couple of minutes, so was not too annoying.
But if that were the only thing the loach did, then I would not be writing this now would I?
After a couple more minutes, I shut down my laptop and put it away and was writing some notes when the loach spoke - the first thing he said was:
'What do you think of Obama?'
I did not answer, he then waved his hand in front of me and repeated his question - it was then I made the mistake with loaches - I replied with...
'I don't' (remember, politics has no interest whatsoever to me)
the rest of the 'conversation' went like this:
Loach: 'But you gotta have an opinion'
Me: 'I don't' (that is the truth, I don't have an opinion about anything to do with politics).
Loach: 'want to know what I think?'
Me: 'no'
Loach: 'free speech says you have to' (with an expctant look on its face)
Me: 'no, please leave me alone'
Loach: 'so, you violatin' my rights to free speech?'
Me: 'go away, now'
Loach: 'I think that Obama is...'
Me: 'GO AWAY, NOW!' - not quite yelling, but in a moderately projected teacher like voice.
Loach: 'Fine, I thought you were cool'
Me: 'Irrelevant, goodbye' and I went back to writing my notes.
This thing went to sevral other passengers, interestingly as most were Japanese, the language barrier stopped him in his tracks.
On the plane, thank oodness he was seated quite a distance from me, and the young lady next to him seemed to have put on her earphones VERY quickly.
I know I may seem rude, but I m like that when I am very tired and with a lot of more important things on my mind, and like I said, I have always refused to involve myself in any way with politics.
At least they keep to themselves for the most part. But, every now and then, if I head down there to railfan, the idiots seem to follow me. Up until now, the only nutjob I'd seen, was when I went to photograph the ex-Penn Central parlor car in McKeesport. That is, across the street, a drunk was having an in-depth conversation with a fire hydrant 
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