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Talk to the Hand

the Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, Or, Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door
Mar 28, 2019raney rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I'm turning 43 today and I think I have some wisdom to impart, but the younger generation seems resentful of the pronouncements I have taken to making this whole year. Lynne Truss is very funny and speaks very correctly since she also wrote Eats, shoots and Leaves abt grammar. C I text 2 much?! Of course most people in their twenties, despite what seem to me their youthful, baby faces, have worked longer than me, now. This is because I got social security 5 years ago. Because of my disabilities I left the workforce. I was 38. I guess I can now count 3 gray hairs, so am not a young thing myself. I am not calling out people if they Ma'am me! I guess I'm Ok with it, the getting older thing. However, it is fun to read a book by someone who speaks the Queen's English well, and is really trying to absorb how much behavior has changed, tho she queenly doesn't really see the need to change herself. I also tried it out on someone ten years older, but she is or was my friend, guess can't invite her to party:(. I guess I thought I could change other people, but I still have quite a bit of sawdust in my own eyes, and am growing up more. I'm trying to hold onto Childlike not Childish ways, tho trouble is making me cynical too. I'd like to just be skeptical, like Diogenes who went around wearing only a barrel, and put pebbles in his mouth to cure his lisp, or maybe some other Greek philosopher. See I'm trying to be funny too like Ms. Truss, or maybe she is old-fashioned and prefers Mrs. I think she's married, well you will have to read to find out her fascinating private life. Mostly its about English rudeness, but its not that different from American rudeness. A young man's phone rang loudly in computer room. I asked 2x politely to quiet his phone, but he calmly said it would stop when it stopped, and lo and behold it stopped the instant he said that! Magic? Maybe he or you will read this and just say like I did 'Whatever.' Working on No F*s Given. See older people can be rude too, and have great vocabularies! Not me, used to. Lynne Truss is my heroine on this topic. I like it better than her other grammar one, bc here she doesn't always know what she is talking about and it makes her a tad more humble. But keep your Tiara up, Mrs. Truss! I worry about the high school grads who have never known a life before 9/11. The time I decided to hide in my parent's home, and avoid all that hard stuff. The world has gotten Hot, Flat and Crowded like Jared Diamond, tho he is usually too conservative for me, predicted, and they deal with much more environmental pollution, horrible out-size crimes, and people (and politicians) out only to make No.1 some big bucks. Good Luck and Good Night.