Introducing Chapelboro’s pessimistic pussycat! Can’t choose what color to paint your house? Or what to get your wife for her birthday? Just need some life advice? Write in to Sourpuss to hear his thoughts. Fair warning, he’s not a spoon-full-of-sugar kind of kitty. (Sorry in advance.)
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You know, the more I’ve thought about it, the more offense I’ve taken to being called “Sourpuss.” Not only is it outdated and foolish-sounding, it’s inaccurate to boot. My disposition isn’t “sour,” it’s simply realistic and applicable to the world around me — and you try calling any cat you’re not on a first-name basis with “puss” anywhere but behind a keyboard and tell me how that goes.
Regardless, I’m back again to answer three more questions that you seemingly can’t solve yourselves. Let’s discuss, and hopefully I can convince you to bother someone else with your mundane little problems.
[REDACTED]: How do I nicely tell my in-laws they are not invited to a certain event slash dinner? It’s not a holiday or birthday, but they assume.
If someone isn’t invited to a certain function, is there any reason at all for them to know it’s happening? The unexamined life may not be worth living, but I think your particular situation goes to show that there are some portions of life that are better left beneath the rug and under the radar. Your in-laws can’t show up to places they can’t find to dinners no one told them about, so conduct your business a bit more quietly and you just might solve this one yourself. If they call to ask? You’ve got plans. “What plans,” they say, right before you change the subject.
Gatesonthehill: Why is it called “catfishing” to deceive someone on the internet?
Have you ever seen a cat fishing? Neither have I. There’s no bait, no lure — there’s only the cat, and the fish. Eventually, the fish is dumb enough to approach the cat, which then fulfills its natural role by eating the fish. My advice is to be the cat.
Cemmichell417: I need help planning rainy day dates for my husband and I. Any fun ideas?
My preference is to be left alone, especially on rainy days. That’s when I get the highest-quality naps and get all my best ideas. But if you must tear your significant other away from whatever they had planned for the day — I’d suggest long walks off short piers, spending some time in the kitchen cooking together, pretending the power is out and working on a puzzle by candlelight, swapping tips on how best to wash dishes, and perhaps re-tiling the bathroom you share.
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