It is the holiday season so there will be limitless warnings from friends about what evils I should not commit based only on the season, not any previous actions or expressed plans of mine. 

Many of these will be sent by those who just discovered what is already common knowledge and are rather more insulting than the intended friendly advice being offered as it implies that their friends on their social media contact lists are assumed to be heartless reprobates.

I have to assume that either they assume all their friends, me among them, have major flaws in common, or they assume their faults are universally shared by all they know.

Either way, after the slew of how not to kill pets and children on Thanksgiving, we have the switch in the season, and I have been warned in two days not to:

• Abandon puppies at Christmas and in anticipation of my doing so later, abandoning chicks at Easter instead of eating them later accompanied often with the vehemently expressed suggestion I go Vegan
• Leave dogs outside in winter.
• Choke sea life with balloons.
• Gawk at the afflicted.
• Assume everyone on everything fits some “normal”.
• Take any land from anyone.
• Prefer a homeless person over a Vet and vice versa.

Things are tough all over and people need their friends. They do not need to know through Christmas memes how low an opinion of them a friend has been concealing.

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