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So, I have not been having a good couple of weeks. At all. My dog was put down, my car is s**t, my job is treating me terribly. To top it all off, my grandfather passed away yesterday. Overall, I'm not feeling especially cheery. I don't want people to talk to me or touch me, and I'm more irritable than usual.

Now, I know my dad is just as miserable as I am, but he brought it up...

We were talking about the Shirley Sherrod case- which I'm sure most of you have heard of by now. He's a Republican, I'm a Democrat. We were trying to explain it to my mom, and he kept interrupting me and twisting the facts. From all these years of arguing, his main tactic is to talk over me and interrupt me. He doesn't know how to let me get a word in edgewise, but tonight, I wasn't having it. I flat-out told him, "Don't interrupt me." I was pre-irritated from the day, so when he did interrupt me, I actually held my breath so he would shut up and let me talk. Eventually, we get to the problem of whose fault the whole ******** was.

My opinion- everybody's fault. He asks me who 'everybody' is, and when I start to say, "Well, first, the guy who recut the film," he interrupts me again! Then, he starts going off about how the Obama administration acts without looking at all the facts. I get extra-pissed. I keep trying to talk when he seems to be done, but he just keeps repeating his point louder, faster, and with more and more idiotic exaggeration. I manage to talk over him long enough to give the example of how last time the administration waited to act, they got criticized. He just keeps saying, "No, they're over, they're done, and I'm glad Obama's finished. He should have checked the facts!"

And I finish him with, "Well, you know, if he had waited to check the facts, Fox News would criticize him for not acting! He can't win!"

Then I isolated myself in the basement, while he shouts for me to come back, because you know what? I knew I was right. Letting him talk would just give him the illusion that he was right, but he was wrong wrong wrong. He doesn't have a point. I am too irritable and miserable to deal with this.

I'm right, he's wrong.
I'm smart, he's dumb.
I'm young, he's old.
I'm quick, he's slow.
I'm not putting up with his stupid s**t right now.

agreed derrai

i'm pretty chill during discussions but being interrupted like that pisses me right the ******** off

anyway my experience with people like that is they don't really care about the issue, but about "winning" the conversation, especially if it's a republican/democrat thing

also that's why i like being nonpartisan. i can have opinions without people going "well you just think that because you're a ____"

anyway i'm sorry the past couple weeks have been shitty. i hope things start getting better soon. heart