Hello. We survived the wedding. I can't straighten the little finger on my right hand, my forehead is scraped up and my right big toe aches, but otherwise everything is back to normal. I guess that's what I deserve for trying to hang with a bunch of twenty-something guys celebrating their buddy's wedding. I think everyone had a good time.

It is interesting how people react to something they hear about another person. Remember the game we played as children. We sat in a line and the person on one end of the line whispered something to the person next to them, and they whispered what they heard to the person next to them and so on. By the time the person on the opposite end received the whisper, it was usually quite a bit different than the original statement. This "game" seems to hold true with adults, only we don't do it innocently and we've dropped the courtesy of whispering.

As a result, I don't give much credibility to negative comments about others. Truth, or lack of, is a very slippery devil. A person might only be repeating their translation of the original comment. You can't fault them for that...can you? It is so easy to twist a statement into the story you want it to be, regardless of what the person really said. They might not think of it as lying, but it is. Ultimately, these people are only fooling themselves. How sad it must be, to spend your days trying to convince yourself that you're a good person at the expense of others.

The best policy is one we were taught when we were young, "if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all."