What’s puzzling about the current uproar over the U.S. government spying on its citizens is the following: that we have the narcissism to believe our lives are interesting enough and worthy of espionage in the first place.
I just couldn’t understand why he would be with her. She
wanted a fight. She was looking for a
fight. Do you have Dom Perignon by the glass? Who has Dom by the glass?
The occupant of the Tomb of the Unknown Mansy marries this type of woman. And soon the vodka hammer of time transforms these women into the Real Housewives of Mansy County.
‘You’re not good-looking enough to do something like this
and get away with it,’ she told Mansy. ‘Good-looking men can get away with this
stuff and be funny and witty about it because they’re good-looking. You’re not.
And that purple shirt of yours sucks.’
No matter what came beforehand, no matter what you’ve seen in a sitcom, no matter what dimwitted article you read in Men’s Health magazine about how to propose to a woman, understand this: It matters.
They need to stop calling their tours 'farewell tours' or the 'last chance' tour, and then turn around a few years later and have their reunion tour. What are they really saying? "We're running out of money and we need you suckers to help us out of the poor house?"
There’s the old joke about wondering who would show up at
your funeral. Is Facebook the new vanity metric about who shows up at your
lived or unlived life?
Things were easier forty years ago. People didn't sugarcoat things. You knew where you stood with people all the time and no one cared. But in the soft, Mansy America of today, we're just accustomed to keeping quiet.
Is this the desert of Mansy? Is this the final landing ground? Is this where a grown man has his final reckoning that absolutely nothing is under his control?
Mansy went to a really nice restaurant wanting to be a high
maintenance pain-in-the-ass. Me, my wife and everybody around them were happy
to see them go.
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