Soapbox

March 2003

So I’ve got this kid…

…and he told me last night, “In town meeting today, I took your advice.”

“Which was…?”

“Well I stood up and said, ‘Yes hello- here I am on St. Patrick’s day and I”m deliberately not wearing green. And the reason is that when you’re Irish, you don’t need to wear green! It’s only the pseudo -Irish, you wanna-be’s out there, who have to wear green on St. Patrick’s Day. So there you are’ “And it worked!” he added. “I didn’t get pinched any more after that!”

“Great!” I said.

“Of course, the fact that I also threatened any fake Irish who pinched me with a painful and lingering death may have helped as well.”

That’s my boy. I never mentioned the painful death part, but hey, whatever works for you, kid.