"and she couldn't understand my stubbornness about the ceiling. "

You can tell a man from Maine ...

I took great commfort from Sinsull's post about the men in her family. I am about to go for a visit, and I will remember the bit about, so they scream and yell, and you wait patiently, and the world doesn't end, and they can't believe you didn't back down when they screamed and yelled.

MA still looking for some who don't scream and yell to make you    back down.

Unfortunately those are the types running the country at the moment.