I think I handled things pretty well, didn’t blow my stack or tear a strip off the guy etc., though for a second or two I really wanted to... just once!
I think I might use the little back and forth as fodder for my next column because there are a couple of things Alex said about me that still stick in my craw.
First, he mentioned that at the age of 10 he “knew the adults were crazy [and] willfully blind to what was obvious to any child 40 or 50 years ago, that the path our society was on was unsustainable.”
His words stung.
When I was 10, not only did I not know an unsustainable path from a hole in the ground, if someone had asked me about the path society was on I would have pointed to Highway 59, the main route out of town.
And I was way too busy playing catch, delivering papers or cutting our huge lawn with a stupid push mower to look up ‘unsustainable’ in the dictionary.
I did know, however, that adults were crazy. The clothes they wore were not rad at all. Not even neato.
Second, Alex laid one on me about the title of the piece, that in it I was “telling everyone else NOW we should get ready to act ("get ready" to act - ?!).”
Hey, my editor picked that title, not me.
The original was something like “Got five minutes and seven bucks? Have I got a deal for you.”
Not too exciting, I admit.
Maybe I should go with a completely different story.
If I can prove Tim Horton’s recent decision to use self-serve coffee machines is a threat to national security, maybe even mass insecurity, I may have a winner.
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