Guilty pleasure admission time, I enjoy reading advice columns. From Dear Abby to Dan Savage, and of course Miss Manners in there somewhere, I have always read and appreciated how advice givers are able to dissect a problem presented to them, and then recommend possible solutions or options on how best to handle them.
With Thanksgiving just around the bend, letters to advice folks leading up to that turkey of a day will usually involve how to handle the crazy uncle who will be attending and him trying to ruin it for everyone else also there.
In a current batch of letters to the Washington Post’s advice columnist Carolyn Hax, there was this scenario I thought worth passing along.
Let go and let rip? Good advice for any situation wouldn’t you say?
That said however, Carolyn was a whole lot more understanding and kind then I would have been. Non-pet person that I am, my advice would have been much more succinct as in “Kennel your critters or stay the hell away!”
Pretty sure I’ve played this Crowded House tune previously but it’s worth a re-run. It contains one of my favorite music lines “Everywhere you go, always take the weather with you.”