The Irascible Chef

Dreams are funny things… Sometimes reality is even funnier! Mix the two and look out! What I dreamt about is funny on the outside but scary on the in.

OK, OK, here’s the dream:

I look at the clock and I realize I’m 5 minutes late for an appointment, but I’m in the building where the appointment is. The building is some kind of dilapidated office/apartment with staircases everywhere and two different directions on each floor. I’m running from floor to floor looking for a number on any door so I can locate the office I’m looking for.

Then somehow there are tons of people in the hallways all hurrying to get out of the building and onto the street. We, (now I’m with my fiancé and her 8 year old daughter) are the first to exit the building as cop cars come screeching to a stop right in front of us. The police have big automatic weapons drawn on us and also pointed in the general direction of the building. I get down on the ground without being asked, the 8yr old girl lays down on the ground but face up making snow angels on the gravel, my fiancé sits down and then the crowd gets down on the ground.

All of this is happening in split seconds, I sit up and take my wig and baseball cap off, (I don’t know why I had a wig on) and someone in the crowd screams he was wearing a wig!

This big African American woman cop is sticking a big gun in my face asking, “who was wearing a wig? You, why were you wearing a wig?!!”

I said, “what difference does it make? Since when is wearing a wig a crime?”

And then my fiancé chimes in with, “Yeah, don’t you know that the founders of this country wore wigs?”

And then, thank God, the alarm went off and I woke up! So, I don’t know how the dream ended… But I had to wake up my fiancé to tell her about the dream and that’s where it gets funny. We all know that we can’t really control dreams and if we could I’d have to question the validity of it actually being a dream.

So, I tell her the dream and when I tell her the part close to the end, where I say, since when aren’t we allowed to wear wigs? She comments about my dream comments to the cop, “yeah that’s a smart thing to tell a cop with her finger on the trigger of a big gun pointed at your head.”

And then I told her what she said in defiance—seemingly to rouse the crowd, to the same cop with the big gun in the dream, “Yeah, what’s the problem don’t you know that the founders of this country wore wigs?”

We both broke out in laughter howling at our reactions to our actions in the dream!

Now, the question is why the dream? What’s the meaning? I can’t help but think the dreams significance is that we are turning into a police state. Because of fear we are losing our civil liberties one by one. Because of control and political correctness we are losing all perspective. Tolerance has become intolerance. The tolerance police have flipped the tables upside down—almost seems like it was the plan in the first place. This is why you really have to worry about slippery slope scenarios. They say no, no, no, it’s not about this or or about that, and then as soon as they get what they were fighting for, they start pushing for the last inch, the this and the that, they said it wasn’t about in the first place—pushong us off the slope!

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Other voices to the point:

How does this even happen in the first place? They keep pushing and pushing and people keep saying it isn’t that big of a deal, it’s nothing to worry about and then we are here:

Stolen Atheist Sign Is Recovered bynicedeb

CNN reports:

An atheist sign criticizing Christianity that was erected alongside a Nativity scene was taken from the Legislative Building in Olympia, Washington, on Friday and later found in a ditch.

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