Tom is always breaking the rules. He ripped the tags off of all of his
mattresses. He runs with scissors. He pets his cat the wrong way. He squeezes his toothpaste in the middle of the tube. But
now his friends think he has gone too far.
“I don’t know where
this is going,” his longtime buddy John told us. “One day he just
started telling people what he really thought, how he felt. We were at
this restaurant, and the waitress asked us if everything was all right,
and Tom said ‘No, actually it’s terrible.’ I couldn’t believe it. The
whole place went quiet and everyone stared.”
This was just the
first in a series of bizarre incidences where Tom inexplicably dropped
the truth bomb. His children brought up the Easter Bunny, and that
ended badly. Tom’s boss at work found out that his toupee looked
stupid. Jehovah’s Witnesses were shocked and dismayed on Tom’s doorstep.
“ None of us want to talk to him anymore,” Frank from the office reported. “You never
know, you might ask him how its going and he might really tell you. If
everyone was like this society would fall apart. I wonder if he’s been
there when his wife is trying on new clothes yet.”
Some old buzzard of long ago in our own organization, Jehovah’s Witnesses, [key search term: "Jehovah's Witnesses." "Tom" also didn't hurt - in fact, I was initially alarmed that perhaps I was the Tom. False alarm, I see now] once observed that you always strive for tact and truthfulness.
But if you have to sacrifice one, you sacrifice tact.
Hmmmmm
Why doesn’t my link connect back to my own blog, like it is supposed to? Very strange.
Ah, well….
carriertom.typepad.com/sheep_and_goats
Ah! delete the first two comments. use this. (sorry to be a pain. tecnologically challenged, and all):
Some old buzzard of long ago in our own organization, Jehovah’s Witnesses, [key search term: "Jehovah's Witnesses." "Tom" also didn't hurt - in fact, I was initially alarmed that perhaps I was the Tom. False alarm, I see now] once observed that you always strive for tact and truthfulness.
But if you have to sacrifice one, you sacrifice tact.
It is fine to sacrifice tact if necessary. Personally I like to sacrifice live pizza!