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[–]MarkTwainiac 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

What a kind, lovely thing to say. But now I'm scratching my head over what interactions we've had in the past that you're apologizing for coz I honestly don't recall, LOL. I'm sure whatever you said was of merit and memorable, but I am such a product of the "sticks and stones... but words can never hurt me" generation and ethos that I tend not to remember a lot of verbal altercations I get into with others. Like the proverbial water off a duck's back...

[–]Rationalmind 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yay, I’m glad. Good attitude to have.

[–]MarkTwainiac 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Also, a good number of of the people I hold nearest and dearest once thought I was a total idiot and asshole full of crazy ideas - and they said as much to my face! Also, as someone who has parented offspring during/through the often disrespectful teenage years, I am accustomed to getting side-eye and being slagged off for being a clueless dimwit who knows nuthin'. As the humorist I take my user name from once famously said,

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.