One of the hazards of scribbling nonsense in these 21st Century blog sites along with about one billion other yahoos is that there are folks out there who really \u2013 and I don\u2019t mean maybe \u2013 REALLY don\u2019t like what they read in Skeeter\u2019s pantheon of purpled prose.\u00a0 Maybe some search engine sends em by mistake, hooks on a key word, next thing you know, instead of a self-help forum, they got some chucklenut waxing profane about a subject they couldn\u2019t care less about.\u00a0 And now, instead of Helpful Tips from Tom on how to turn their unhappy life into something swallowable, they got precious time wasted scrolling down South End Babble and boy howdy, somebody needs to reimburse them!<\/p>\n
So they write to me in the anonymity of the internet.\u00a0 Which is the digital highway equivalent of road rage on the interstate.\u00a0 Flip me off, swerve into my\u00a0lane, \u00a0jam the brakes.\u00a0 They\u2019ll show me who\u2019s who and what\u2019s what.\u00a0 And the best part: they\u2019re untrackable, anonymous as drive-by shooters.\u00a0 Splatter my windshield with shotgun pellets and don\u2019t look back, just speed away to the next unlucky target.<\/p>\n
These are some very Very ANGRY! people out there with us.\u00a0 More than you think.\u00a0 Way more.\u00a0 I suppose we\u2019re lucky they shoot from the lip, not the hip, but if you ever made the mistake of commenting on a forum or some issue that meant enough to you that you weighed in, then you probably learned firsthand what I\u2019m talking about.\u00a0 Civility is most definitely not a valued trait in Cyberville.<\/p>\n
I\u2019d like to see the volume and vitriol dialed back a bit.\u00a0 I know, probably won\u2019t happen, probably get ratcheted UP even more if anything,\u00a0 But personally, I\u2019m weary of the ranting, the hysteria, the apoplexy.\u00a0 And hey, you, the guy who sells antiques and read the blog by mistake on cleaning out my storage shacks, maybe hoping for bargains:\u00a0 I\u2019m sorry you thought this offered no insights for living your life.\u00a0 And I\u2019m doubly sorry if you thought I was so self- centered I used the blog to make myself look attractive.\u00a0 I guess we won\u2019t be dating.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t have anything to sell, pal.\u00a0 Not the junk I cleaned out, not the ideas in my head.\u00a0 And .. .sadly\u2026. it sounds like we\u2019re all a little late to offer you tips on living.\u00a0 Let\u2019s both just figure it out on our own.<\/p>\n
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