[Gilliatt]

Originally Posted by fable

You know, when we go overseas, I immediately try to interpret the German on any label without checking to see if there's English. My wife always get a laugh out of this. And so you write the above...which I could and should have read, before commenting, but didn't. Why do I even bother? I should just lie down, give up, and hope in my next life that I'm incarnated as a Central European diacritical mark. Then at least I'll travel well.

When I started reading, I was wondering if you had actually red all my post! (Is it because you were more interested in replying than in reading what I had to say?)

I have no problem with this, which is simply a matter of close friendships, as you state. But that's a case of cultural upbringing, not (cue the theremin and special effects) mystical bonds that predate your current existence, mine, or anybody else's.

I agree with that.