Actually, when travelling in other countries, I'm very happy to be recognized as American though I don't particularly flaunt it. (As European friends have observed, I don't have to. I radiate it.)
Jane completely missed the point. (Sorry, Jane, you'll have to read more carefully and do some reflecting to avoid such mistakes in the future.)
It's fun being American.
(Sorry, Jane, but your remark did make me mad.)
(I know. I know. It's silly, here in anonymityland. But if she could see me, I'd stick my tongue out at her.
There! Take that, Jane!)
(But it's good for everyone to know that, even someone so close to perfection as I, can get irked from time to time--and can even show an occasional transient moment of pettiness. Such is the human condition until one reaches the true perfection of nirvana.)
(There! Take that again, your LADYSHIP!)
(...transient moment or two)
LOL. Calm down big fella, calm down!
I will not claim that you owe me because the laughs I got were so desperately needed after reading the day's news in Canada that I'll gladly pay the ten bucks for a new keyboard. Yesterday's rants are nothing compared to the 4.6 kilotonne cerebral detonation that occurred in my home a couple of hours ago.