Today’s column
… is online here, and it is not struck through, although there are some formatting problems with it.
I liked the second question a lot. For one thing, I am in a similar situation, or was until recently — I was cheating on my pizza guy, and I think he knew it. I felt terrible — he’d been our pizza guy for years — but the new place was simply so much better. If we got pizza there for takeout, we’d take a roundabout way home so we wouldn’t walk past our pizza guy’s place and risk him seeing it. Now that pizza is in the “rare treat” rather than “basic food group” category I suppose that one’s solved itself to a degree.
Also, I liked the second question because it gave me a chance to recommend a little Theater of Everyday Life. There’s ways of bringing a little humor and improvisational creativity to one’s more mundane interactions, and it’s often a good idea to do so.
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I love love love your response to the second letter. Both the standard etiquette advice, and the Theater of Everyday Life advice. I think most people think of “witty retort” as one that puts down the other person; it’s nice to see one suggested that lets the other person in on the joke.