Status Vs. Appearance

The other day I was enjoying a fresh Dopplebock from one of Missoula's great local breweries, Bayern.  As I sat there contemplating the amazing view of the valley from their enclosed patio, where one can drink and smoke, an older man came outside.

I try to not judge people, but I have my failings as does everyone else, and the image f him I drew up in my mind was someone who was smart enough not to approach someone who looks like me. For those of you who have never seen me in person I am stout, my shoulders have to be at least two and one half feet wide, my chest is almost as deep as it is broad (more than four feet around) I have a mohawk and tattoos. I am not a bad guy, well no worse than anyone else any way, but I don't really look like the kind of person you just talk to unless you never listened to your parents when they told you not to hang out with people like me.

This man looked like he had lead an average and sensible life and probably didn't have time to sit and shoot the shat with a local cult leader that looks like someone you don't want to cross in a dark alley... But he came and sat at my table, I was the only one out there, and lit a cigarette (I really like still being a smoker as the fad dies, you can always find camaraderie in those who still choose to poison their lungs)

We just spoke on whatever was on our minds, just as church happens with the Honey Badger, but mostly we talked of our own disappointment that business owners were no longer allowed to make the decision for themselves as to whether to let smokers participate in their establishments.

Sitting there I realized that I was incorrect in my judgement of him and I have no idea his judgement of me before we began talking (or after for that matter). He was interesting, didn't seem to mind that he was speaking with a thug, and as far as know had no idea he was talking with a cultist who seeks to destroy ignorance and spread love. To me the thing I took away from this was, your perceptions f your outside self have no bearing on anything and that one should always take that into consideration when meeting someone new as your perceptions of their external appearance are probably equally flawed.

"You and I both know that the house is haunted, and you and I both know that the ghost is me. You used to catch me in your bed-sheets just a-rattling your chains, well back then baby, it didn't seem so strange" Shakey Graves

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The King Badger

"If you could travel anywhere to do missionary work where would you go and why? What would you do?"

Honestly Ireland, mostly so that I had an excuse to go to Ireland. I know my perceptions of the country are quite archaic, but I still think it would be good fun. I feel like I could do quite well with anyone that wanted to listen, and if the stereotypes are correct (as pertaining to how much they talk) then the word would spread quite rapidly. As per what I would do, the same thing I always do, find a bar and talk to people until I feel like they wont just leave when I tell them I am a religious leader.

Beyond that I would like to go to a third world country, get out of my comfort zone, and actually do some good. I feel that I constantly talk a big game about doing what we can to make the world a better place, but in the fashion of a true hypocrite I don't do anything. I haven't even sponsored an African child "for just pennies a day." In my defense I am still trying to get my own shit figured out, but I think it would be awesome to do something like that... Though I would like some friends to come with me, as we already can work together well and I trust those I actually call friend to not worry about who has taken charge of the situation as long as it is going well. Basically I know that the leader would be a fluid position being taken by the person who knows what needs done best and is able to call the shots, and with that we would not fight about who was in charge.