A Mild Obsession

[porphyry]

Typically, I am a pretty cheap person who can talk herself out of buying almost anything I don't have to (unlike Malkhos who has no problem spending money).

Still, I have my weak points.  I develop mild obsessions.  The latest is Royal Doulton fine china in the Old English Country Rose pattern.  I can't help it.  It would look beautiful in the hutch of my buffet.  It's just--well, me.

I found a set online which could be much more expensive than it is.  I have bookmarked it.  I'm trying to talk myself out of it.

So who, of all people, is also trying to talk me out of it?

"Why do we need that?" says Malkhos.

"I don't know," I say. "To eat from like civilized people.  To take our tea in the afternoon in good style."

"I can just see it," he says. "'Here, Madeline, here's your hot dog on fine china.'"

"Be quiet," I say. 

"Or, "'Andrew, let's put your Pop Tart on this fine plate,'" Malkhos continues.

"You're probably right," I say. "But I still want it."

Oh, the difficulty of the idee fixe!  It just doesn't respond to reason.

Comments

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

On the contrary, I once friended your journal precisely because you do seem likable, but--as nearly as I can recall--you have the habit of replying to some perfectly mundane comment in a way that is both aggressive and mad. Or I may have you confused with someone else.

[mercyorbemoaned.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure you lj-dumped me because you were being a kneejerk FLDS-hater and I pointed out that whatever your personal feelings are about bad dresses and polygamy, you ought to remember that first they will come for the sisterwives in Laura Ashley knockoffs, and if you don't speak out, no sisterwives will be around when they come for you.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

I remember now!

Ah, yes, his negative feelings about Mormons know no bounds, that's for certain. My own take on all differences among religions is to let them all exist as they wish even if I don't agree with them.

[mercyorbemoaned.livejournal.com]

I agree with Heinlein's assessment: it is the various American religions' jealousy and mistrust of each other that protects everyone else's religious freedoms. The prolife movement, which Heinlein was too old to understand, is one of the worst things that could have happened to America in terms of religious freedom, as it gave nearly all religions common ground and created a reason for secular people to care. One of the only real protections we have left is what tension there is left between Mormons and Christians.