One thing has really bugged me though, especially since the 2000 election. Each year at Christmas, one of these sisters (and her husband) sends a standard form letter full of political horse manure. The other sister and her husband (a retired Navy officer) have nothing to prove politically, and use the Christmas cards to send their holiday cheers. I find it totally inappropriate for these retired college instructors to use their traditional holiday greetings as a means to spill their political guts. I thought that this was supposed to be a time of cheer and good will. They wasted two large paragraphs (in an otherwise short note), to demean President Bush, his policies and the war in Iraq. One of their lines in this year's letter is: "...and make judicial choices that do not favour right wing ideologues."
I'm finding it harder and harder to be nice. I'm almost tempted to send a card telling them how I feel and sign it: Your friendly-neighborhood right-wing ideologue.
These people are supposed to be educators, but perhaps that is part of the their problem. They actually believe that Iraq could be contained like the Soviet Union. There's nothing like living in la la land.
I'm probably moving to Florida next year sometime and will just forget to send them my new address. That way they'll never find me and I won't have to wade through their yearly political baloney to find their season's greetings.
Here is the final final from my old, now ex friend. She could not talk, just argue, No ability to have a give or take discussion. No ability to learn. There is nothing as stuck in its shell as an old leftist. It was not much of a friendship but I cared for her.
She said:
"We have opposite perceptions of the realities of the world and of what is important so unfortunately we've reached a point in our friendship where there isn't much to talk about, only to argue over."
Never stay friends with someone who is too small.