Friday, September 26, 2008

The price we pay...

You know what's bad about generally being right? That when you are wrong, people seem to get more upset about it than if you were just wrong all the time. Same goes for being mostly nice and occasionally somewhat vituperative or generally being good and doing something naughty every once in a while. I'm not trying to say I'm nice, or always right or good; I try not to lie. :) I'm just saying, it seems to be unfair. I know, I know, life's not fair and no one ever said it was. But still. You can't make a small mistake without people getting all in a tizzy about it. I think we all know that humor in the Benz family tends to be rather mordant, but that doesn't mean we are actually intentionally cruel (most of the time). I'm not entirely sure what one thing has to do with the other now...

2 comments:

Mark said...

This post reminded me of the Friends episode where Joey writes a letter to the adoption agency for Monica and Chandler and uses the thesaurus for every word. Vituperative. I didn't even bother to look it up (though your context clues made it fairly clear). I know I'll never see it again.

Andrea Benz said...

Are you trying to imply that I sound stupid? For the record, I don't even have a thesaurus. Also, just for that, I am now going to work vituperative into every single post from now on. :-P