I Don't Want One

It’s kinda funny the things you hear in the office.

I have been at me new job a total of four months now. I spend about three hours a day in the office before heading out to the field. Most of the time my head is down and I am concentrating, focused and working on this or that. I am never the social butterfly or partake in the water cooler gossip and I really cannot tell you the names of all the folks sitting only a few feet away. I am the new guy so I am expected to do just what I am doing and when the time comes, they may let me into their little click.

So every morning I have to hear all the events of everyone telling whoever will listen about their lives, social status, political views and even religion. Most of the time I just keep my head down and try to tune them out while I do my reports. Just by overhearing them I can tell I would be the odd ball out with the way I live and the way I think. You see, most of the people I work with are really far Left and they think everyone should live the way they do, hence, the reason why I keep my mouth shut. All I would need to do to start a feeding frenzy is to say something against their views.

This morning caught me off guard and I had to give one of secretaries my best “are you stupid look.” She saw and recognized it right away then quickly shut up and turned around. I didn’t even need to say anything.

One guy asked her if her and her husband have ever been hunting.

“No, I would never do that! Plus, we don’t even own a gun, we don’t believe in them.” she said in a matter of fact tone of voice.

I stopped what I was doing to listen to the rest of the conversation.      

She continued, “Why do I need a gun? I’m not a violent person. That means I would have to go out and shoot somebody if I had one.”

That’s when my head sprung up and that look of ,”Really, how stupid are you” came across my face.

Is this what they really believe? Then it all makes since now. They want to ban guns because if they had one then they would go out and shoot someone. After all, it’s the guns fault, they would have no control over it.

Really?