Boundaries Revisited

I try to keep the notion of personal boundaries — those which establish limits between some and others for the purpose of identifying a relatively reasonable level of coexistence in my short term memory for periodic review.

Now I have few boundaries in my personal sphere which would preclude another from approaching me for whatever manner of interaction is required ... and indeed, I often times feel that those who require such formality might as well go take a flying leap anyway.
 

However, there are also distinct differences in my interaction with those familiar to me and those I consider to be unacquainted and I dare say the difference is night and day to a steep degree.

I don't joke around with those I don't know. I don't allow those I don't know to enter my home. I surely don't take much in the way of crap from people I don't know either.

By the same token, I don't let unfamiliars joke too much with me. I don't enter the homes of others unknown to me, and I refrain from giving crap to them either unless they have provoked me — which does occasionally happen.

Your response either "good" or "band" to me does not typically trigger anything untoward. If I detect hostility I may get in your face so we can see just who is the badder ass in the mix. If someone is trying to be my friend I will usually be friendly up to a point but again ... it depends on how much I think I know and what else I may detect in any given interaction.

Millennials and their ilk might reconsider some haughty "OK, boomer" lest they draw back a nub or fall dead upon the ground, victim to an abrupt yet very accurate .357 head shot should I feel endangered and I certainly don't suffer fools who think they're grown when they aren't even close.

Likewise, I don't heckle others who just happen to display that stupidity indigenous to being born from our generation of parents who were of a burger flipper mentality and I try to forgive a lot of the leftist indoctrination which is the biggest part of a public school education anymore.

All in all I try to cohabitate and let you be you while I remain me. This being said I likewise am not opposed to depriving you of a few civil rights if you step over the line. My typical attitude is "grin and CONFRONT it".

I may not be big on decorum but you really need to step back jack should you find yourself in the danger zone.