WHERE THERE IS NO THERE THERE

Over the years I have become quite adept at conversing with the senseless. In some part it's because I live in San Francisco, where you never know if that stranger is a tourist visiting from Mars, or from the Midwest. Part of it is because of my employment.
About the precise nature of which the less said the better.

One other thing that comes into play is that I, through no conscious intent, seem to impress people as a genuinely likable fellow. Which I'm not. I'm actually a curmudgeon. Bah humbug is second nature to me. But I'm diplomatic. When someone tells me that Elon Musk is brilliant and they like the man more than they did last year, I am more likely to compliment them on their capacity for growth than tell them they're an absolute moron.

Or change the subject entirely.

See, there is really no reason to tell Danny that he has compost where other people have a brain. Or that his opinions are, more or less, raw sewage. That's his wife's job. And I'm glad those two found each other. Bless their hearts.

There there, little bald degenerate.
There. there.

I'm sure I'll read about him in the papers one of these days.
It will be an accidental and embarassing demise.
Probably Darwin Award worthy.

The expression "there there" sounds pleasingly comforting without actually meaning anything. Calming, even soothing. It's what you say to a wild animal closing in on your exposed body part. There there, savage cougar, there there. There there, little rabid chipmunk, there there. Perhaps you want a carrot instead?

How's life in the caffeine deficient lane?


You have to slow down when driving through brain fog.


Life, little bald degenerate, is not always foot on the accelerator.
Sometimes you have to avoid invisible walls.
Or Elvis impersonators.
There there.



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