HudsonHawk
I'll Lock Up
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I wear cowboy boots, too. (And Converse All-Stars.) I’m in blue jeans most every day. I’ve owned trucks and likely will again.
As an older, bald-headed, somewhat overweight lifelong American fellow of predominantly Northern European extraction, I find people — mostly younger people — making wildly erroneous assumptions about my personal history, my political views, my aesthetic preferences, etc., etc.
Call it lingering tribalism, I suppose. People see what they expect to see.
Oh people make assumptions about me all the time, assume my political thoughts, financial situation, family status, etc. These days I routinely get asked out of the blue how many grandchildren I have (for the record, I married later in life than most folks, and don't have any children at all, let alone grandchildren. And I'm not that old) A couple of years ago, I was in a jury pool for an attempted capital murder case involving a young Hispanic male. I was ultimately selected (even though I was like juror # 94 in the pool), and one of my fellow jurors said "I'm shocked the defense allowed you to be on the jury". I kind of was too, though below surficial appearances I'm exactly the kind of juror either side would have wanted.