Quibbling about words...
Don't we have enough stress with what's going on in the world these days that we need to get upset about somebody wishing us well using the wrong words as well? Or maybe that's the whole problem. It doesn't take much to set people off, here or elsewhere. Doesn't take much to excuse jumping on somebody for a perceived slight. Lots of folks are mad at something we feel pretty helpless to do anything about.

I wrote a really long post last night, flaming people for being hostile and petty, and making Mudcat somewhere I wasn't sure if I wanted to be. I didn't send it. Today, I realize I was being just as hostile and petty as the folks I was pissed off about. Fighting fire with fire is only an option when you don't mind losing everything you're going to burn.

I have enough things to worry about to get my panties in a bunch because someone used terminology I don't care for to wish me well. (and no, 'Be Blessed' doesn't bother me. If it did, 'Blessed Be' would bother me just as much. They mean the same damned thing, without the stuff between the lines.) It's especially ironic that this should happen in a thread about 'respect and civility'. It's not 'Live and let live, as long as you do it the way I think you should'. Oy.

Don't MAKE me post "There's a Bug Up My Butt" again!

Jeri