I have been eating so much meat (and ribs in particular) that Sunday at my brother's house, I had mostly the grilled vegetables and shrimp.  My brother even said, "OMG!  Aliens have abducted my brother!"  We basically just pigged out, drank and sat by the pool.  Life is good.  The most interesting flavor was the grilled shrimp stuffed with gorgonzola and wrapped in prosciutto.  Sounds kind of weird, and tastes kind of weird, but it's oddly addictive.  SlawFly (my Sister-in-LAW, for those of you who forgot) really enjoyed it at some restaurant and recreated it for us.

HUMOR

So at the BBQ yesterday, I overheard a friendly-looking guy ask his girlfriend if the kids wanted veggie burgers.  Turns out he was just joking.  But on the topic of "know one, know all" from yesterday (yeah - I know this isn't true a lot of times), it got me to thinking about the things that would make me leery when meeting a new person.

Top 5 Things to Say to Me to Make Me Want to Walk Away from Our Conversation:

5. "I sure love those veggie burgers.  It tastes better than real meat!"  Oh all right - if they are cool in other ways, I'll let this go.  Maybe.  Oddly, I don't know any vegetarians IRL.  I think the sight of me makes vegetarians afraid (as they should be).

4. "The wife and I got matching Patek Philippes."  Snobbery and braggery are such a wonderful combination in a person.

3. "Nietzsche's influence..."  Mmm... social retards who think they are smart.

2. "The bipartisanship..."  It may just be me, but I've always had a low opinion of people *overly* interested in politics.  Sorta like taking a keen interest in watching the Special Olympics.

1. "The Lord ..." because inevitably, they always get around to asking you if you have "seen the light," and will try and convert you if you respond in the negative.  And the smug righteousness tilts the crap out of me.

Mrs. Fly would tell me stories about how she was younger, a group of "friends" would go out to dinner and there would always be a few that never paid their share.  My reply was, how does that happen more than once (or twice)?  Because unless the person was just laid off or are having some financial hardship, I would basically never see them again.  Life is short.  Avoid annoying people and hang out with people you like.