All fiction is stupid!!
I haven’t got time in my life to waste on that crap!
Read any good books lately?
Never mind.
But you have time to waste commenting on it?
Our resident “wet blanket.”
Mommy and daddy yelled at you for playing pretend when you were young, then?
Methinks maybe it wasn't the concept of pretending, but maybe the things you were pretending, that troubled them.
(Pssst: Even Jesus taught with parables. You know... make-believe stories that teach, guide, and instruct... AKA, fiction.)