BLS
08-17-2007, 02:55 PM
2 very positive notes about the campaign.
1. I got 5 bumper stickers from Iowa this past weekend, and put 2 on my car last night, before heading up to my first meetup attendance. Today while driving down the road, a rather scruffy looking man, probably in his 40's driving a pickup pulls up next to me and starts honking his horn. I looked over to my surprise to see him giving me a HUGE thumbs up! Took me a brief second, but he pointed at my truck lid (where my stickers are), and the bulb went off, and I smiled broadly and gave him a huge thumbs up.
2. A guy at the meetup last night (Thursday) showed up with a Ron Paul Revolution Tshirt on.
No big deal...I had mine on as well. Then he speaks up during a discussion and says he just drove here from a town about 1.5hrs away and wanted to get some insight on how the meetups work, etc, because then he's starting his own meetup in his hometown and then he's driving to a town another 1hr in a different direction to meet 7 people there who are waiting for a meetup to form.
One guys says to him "wow, that's awfully ambitious. How long have you been following Dr. Paul?"
The guy looks at us, and says "Since Monday". :D
The freaking guy goes on about how a friend sent him a youtube link, and a day later he had orderd his shirts, bumper stickers, slim jims and joined meetup.
Stuff like this only reaffirms that when you first see the 'light'. It's like being born all over again, only you can remember it, and you can celebrate with a beer.
1. I got 5 bumper stickers from Iowa this past weekend, and put 2 on my car last night, before heading up to my first meetup attendance. Today while driving down the road, a rather scruffy looking man, probably in his 40's driving a pickup pulls up next to me and starts honking his horn. I looked over to my surprise to see him giving me a HUGE thumbs up! Took me a brief second, but he pointed at my truck lid (where my stickers are), and the bulb went off, and I smiled broadly and gave him a huge thumbs up.
2. A guy at the meetup last night (Thursday) showed up with a Ron Paul Revolution Tshirt on.
No big deal...I had mine on as well. Then he speaks up during a discussion and says he just drove here from a town about 1.5hrs away and wanted to get some insight on how the meetups work, etc, because then he's starting his own meetup in his hometown and then he's driving to a town another 1hr in a different direction to meet 7 people there who are waiting for a meetup to form.
One guys says to him "wow, that's awfully ambitious. How long have you been following Dr. Paul?"
The guy looks at us, and says "Since Monday". :D
The freaking guy goes on about how a friend sent him a youtube link, and a day later he had orderd his shirts, bumper stickers, slim jims and joined meetup.
Stuff like this only reaffirms that when you first see the 'light'. It's like being born all over again, only you can remember it, and you can celebrate with a beer.