You are seldom at a loss for words but I understand the caution..We wouldn’t have wanted to read about your behavior in the L. A. Times or O. C. Register. Who knows - you could have been arrested for offending someone?
WHOOPS - got up to look out the window at some noise - always disruptions cause these double posts...
I was with friends I just don’t talk politics with. I was on the down low. ;)