15 December, 2023 by Eric Dunkelberger

  Let me tell you about what happened yesterday. My wife and I went to the food store for our weekly groceries. We had just gotten our goods and headed toward the checkout. As the lady was scanning our purchases, my wife looked at the guy behind us. He as wearing a sweatshirt that read ‘Don’t Talk To Me Until After I’ve Had My Fentanyl’. My wife pounced verbally on him. “Your shirt is offensive. I’m the mother of an addict.” The guy behind us backed up a step or two and said, “Okay.” She just glared at him.

  Face it; what more could he have said? How could he justify what the sweatshirt said? You have to be completely tone deaf to think this is in any way funny. He should be aware enough to realize massive amounts of fentanyl is coming across our border virtually unchecked’ That same fentanyl is killing our citizens! What’s funny about that?

  To continue the story, as she glared, I moved more to her right and kept an eye on the guy. He stayed a few paces back as we continued checking out. We left and, as we came to our truck, I saw the guy walking one aisle over in the parking lot. I watched as he got in his car. My wife walked to the passenger side of the truck and I walked to the front of my truck, to head off any problem. He drove away, probably not noticing us at all.

  Driving out of the parking lot, my wife asks, “Is he following us?’ I told her no, that he had left before us. Then she asked if I was carrying and I answered.

  My wife’s willingness to stand up for what she believes is probably the reason I married her. A person that doesn’t stand for his principles, he has no principles. Too many people will allow such slights to pass unchallenged. Edmund Burke said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing..” We have too many good men doing nothing. We have way too many politicians doing nothing, but lip service! We need to replace those politicians who do nothing with Conservatives who will get things done for the benefit of Americans!

  I’m proud of my wife. She isn’t afraid to voice her opinions. She is an advocate for addiction recovery and I support her in that endeavor. Her advocacy is just one thing that makes me love her!