Saturday, January 27, 2007

etiquette notes

More etiquette notes.
  1. 5 AM is the time for ARSON.
  2. Once again, it is impolite to ask about rent or most other expenses unless you have a legitimate interest in knowing.
  3. It is quite impolite to rant about one's deep problems to almost-strangers.
  4. If somebody doesn't drink, or isn't drinking, it is horribly impolite to pursue the matter. It requires no justification unless they're just being squeamish or prudish and you know it, in which case you may kid. But this is predicated upon your already having knowledge of the reasons for abstention.

3 comments:

Patrick said...

Re 3: It's amazing how much of this there is on the Interblogtubeswebosphere. People want the Sacrament of Confession on some deep level, but they don't like the possibility of grace afterward- the horrifying possibility that they could be changed on a fundamental level.

Or maybe that's hyperbole.

Mr. G. Z. T. said...

Though these are problems and not necessarily sins - though sin may be involved at some level, it's certainly not what's being confessed.

Patrick said...

Well, in many cases the problems are recognized as personal failures of some sort. But then, you're not referring to the same cases that I see now and then.