"Hippy" guys are insecure little punks.

I'm sitting in the park by the farmers market this afternoon when a group of 7 "hippies" comes walking up looking for someplace to chill.

The park was crowded so one of the women walks up to me, smiles, and asks if her group can share my shade.

I say sure.

first guy walks up;
Me: "Hi, how's it going?"
Him: (zilch. nodda. nothing--no response)

Second guy walks up;
Me: "Hi" (nods to him).
Him: (sneer and a reluctant, almost sarcastic)-"hi".

Two guys and another woman walk up;
(she gives me a shy smile, they ignore me).

Last woman walks up;
Her:"Hi" (nice smile, sits where I can talk to her if I want to)
Me: "Hey".

Almost immediately one of the guys starts waving his hand in front of his face to ward off the smoke from the cigarrette I was already smoking when they invited themselves into my space.
Then, when he see's I'm not going to put it out he gets up with an annoyed little "tthhh" and sits on the other side.

A few minutes into the several conversations that are going on one of the guys who had perched himself right across from where Lisa and I are talking interrupts our conversation with;
Him: (contempt) "So what, you workout all the time?"
Me: "Nope, haven't touched a weight in months".
Him: (sneer, sarcastic smile) "Yeah right".
Me: (leaning forward a little) "Yeah. Right"
Him" "Tthhh!"
Me: (pause) "So what, you eat all the time"?

anyway, Lisa gets up and goe's to sit by the other women. I reach into my pouch to get a cigarette I had rolled in my tabacco pouch and grab a joint by mistake (didn't realise till after I lit it).

Halfway thru the first drag I realise my mistake and go to put it out and put it back but instead, on a sadistic little whim, I take a nice big hit, blow the smoke at the guys, then put it out and put it back.

every eye in their group was on me as soon as the smoke caught the wind.
I got up, smiled, said "Whatever" and walked away.

When this kind of shit used to happen to me (most places) when I was a kid I always used to think it mean't something was wrong with me.

Now I see it this way; alot of these so-called hippy guys spend their lives living off their parents well into their 20's or until they can find some woman stupid enough to take care of them.
Never worked a day in their lives.
Don't know how to take care of themselves.
And never grew up.

When they meet some guy who doesn't look like he's spent his whole life sitting on his ass and getting stoned while some surrogate mommy foots the bill--it makes them nervous.

 

Hmmm... that describes half of the population of Arcata...

 

I got that vibe when I was in Humboldt last year.
I doubt it's any worse than Santa Cruz though.

 

sounds like most of SoCal to me...

except the hyper-materialistic "look at me" crowd.

 

is that because the other half are women?

 

Alot of these so-cal, so-called hippies almost make me like yuppies.

 

sounds more like the cliquey (i know i murdered that spelling) wannabe hippy types then anything, most of the hippies i know tend to make other people nervouse by being too enthusiasticaly freindly.. how old were these kids? i'm guessing 19ish? (no offence to any 19 yr olds on here)

 

Lol! I was going to ask the same thing.

 

That's just it Eagle; the youngest guy there must have been at least 25. A cpl of the guys looked middle aged.

I get along with most of the kids (but not the trustafarians) just fine.

If they were kids it wouldn't have bothered me. Kid's are supposed to be insecure.

Anyway at this point in my life if some 19 yr old kid see's me as competition I take it as a compliment.

 

durango is totally crawling with the trustafarians, man, it's sickening. I'M more hippy than they are. just because you like to smoke and refuse to bathe doesn't make you a hippie. ridiculousness.

 

Whats a trustafarian?

 

Rebellion is a state of mind.

 

Another wonderful segment of our "hippy" population are these spoiled suburban kids that come into the city in their rattiest clothes and spange the tourists.

Makes it harder for the real earthwalkers, hitch-hikers, and kids who don't have anyplace else to go besides the road.

 

A rich suburban kid with dreds (see my last post).

 

Yeah, and so is hypocricy.

 

well, here in durango is the true trust fund hippy: multimillionaire parents who buy them all their clothes and pay their rent on their incredibly expensive condos while they just get stoned and do nothing worthwhile. they LOOK hippy-ish, but they're rude, unwelcoming, unhelpful and high maintenance.

 

in what universe?

 

Hey, if most of the "hippies" you've met are like the guys I descibed in this thread I'd think there was something wrong with you if you didn't think hippys were shit.

 

the difference between murder 1 and manslaughter is a state of mind too......

I think about that every time someone talks about state of mind.....

 

the difference between murder 1 and manslaughter is an abstract legal concept, its also particular to the u.s.
it is used to judge the severity of punishment that will be assigned to the only reality of someone's death by cause of another.