I have waited until blowfish season has flown/swum the coop to mention an unnecessarily testy email and phone call I got from an apparently easily irritated female. I quickly realized she exuded the famous adage “A little knowledge can be a dumb-ass thing.”
It was during an unadvised call-in (after her email) that she got my goat – though I positively don’t have a goat, per se. (That’s all I need: the health department nosing around to see if I’m keeping random farm animals in my yard.
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