I should thank her for writing such a boring, tedious book filled with “old man yells at cloud” energy that it started me on the path away from prescriptivism.
Maybe I just had different expectations. I really thought it would have interesting things to say about grammar, but it was just her complaining about the same surface-level type of thing over and over. I guess I just wasn’t expecting something meant to be popular instead of substantive after the hype I’d heard around it-- guess I didn’t look enough into what it was beforehand.
I can only speak about my cat, for whom the solution has been mostly to make sure he has sufficient fresh scratching cardboard.
Trimming claws helps but he doesn’t like it. I get a partner to distract him, but mostly he keeps his claws in good, if sharp, order.
If the scratch pads are too dusty or too used, he’ll start favoring the sofa, but sometimes he’ll do that for sake of mischief, getting away with something. He seems to like to test that we’re paying attention.
There used to be a an armed security guard that would pick up the money from the Starbucks across the street from my last job that gave me the same impression as this little guard.
He was 400lbs+ and I always thought “If something happens to this guard he’s not chasing anyone down. He’s gonna shoot em.” Tiny guards make me think the same. I hope she doesn’t have a gun.
My New York liberal partners path. Had a few scares in the city we live in from lock-ins and just the general shit that happens in a city. It never hurts to have them so long as you know how to use them. So please shoot and be a responsible gun owner this includes locking them up and having proper safety measures in place especially if you have little ones
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