Dear self;

Just because the nice man calling to get magazine* subscriptions ordered through Mothers Against Drunk Driving was polite and totally blown off his spiel when you asked how HE was doing, does not mean that when he tries to apply the "but don't you want to help out MADD?" stick, you should start lecturing him about how in Europe, the attitude towards drinking is totally different. Even if it was a nice lecture**, suggesting to the poor fella that the drinking age should be lowered or abolished so that there stops being a ridiculous taboo so people can learn from a young age to drink alcohol as responsibly as they drink water or Dr. Pepper was possibly too far.

Even if you are tired enough to think it was good fun. At least you kept it polite. Do better next time.***

Now. Back to cleaning.




*which I haven't bothered with since I was in my late teens
** and probably totally wrong or so generalized as to be useless and/or misinformation
*** and find out if that thing you less than half remember about MADD being corrupt or anti-something-or-another-that's-not-drinking is accurate. And it looks like it wasn't accurate, aside from "they're a huge bureaucracy with associated problems" things. Good. Glad I didn't go there, then.