Make it Stop

I am sitting here, trying my best *not* to listen to the rabid Republicans in the next door office.

I am mostly moderate, except on certain issues. Over-all, I’m probably closer to a Federalist than any current party.

The thing is, they keep propagating misinformation and propaganda between them and it’s driving me absolutely insane. I want to jump in, but I know damn well that it will not do anything to help them or me. There’s nothing that I can say that will sway them because obviously 1) I’m a woman and everyone knows women are nuts and 2) I’m obviously a liberal because I don’t agree with them.

Just suck it up. Keep my mouth shut and approach things from a different angle.

I just want to strangle them with their hunting gear.

Things I learned, but just now applied

You know how you can tell an alcoholic? You can smell it on their skin.

It’s not their breath. It’s subtly out of their skin. Like their own private perfume.

It’s a diagnostic tool.

One I wish I didn’t have because it’s hard to bite my tongue. I’m not in the field anymore. I really shouldn’t stick my nose into someone else’s business.

Yet, I worry. Someone with kids and a wife and a lot of other positive things. He doesn’t fit the diagnosis of an alcoholic because it doesn’t impair his functioning. Still, it’s more than your drink every night drinking. More than a maintenance alcoholic. I know other people who drink often, and a lot. They don’t have the smell. The smell comes from a chronic, excessive amount of alcohol in your system.

*sighs*