I’m over it! Really! I’m doing just fine. Thanks for your sympathies and concerns but let me make it plain right here, right now: I really don’t bear a grudge over the whole Tea Party incident thing or the whole you-guys-not-wanting-to-pay-tax-without-being-represented thing. You are very sweet to consider my feelings but truly – I’m good.
Every 4th of July I get cautious teasing from friends and colleagues and with an undertone of caring concern…
REALLY! I’M NOT BOTHERED! If Brits got upset every time a country celebrated their day of becoming independent from the British Empire they’d spend the majority of the year miserable.
Another misconception that Americans have about English folk is that back in Merry Old – come that final Thursday of November – we’re all whipping out the turkey, sweet potatoes and green beans and having a big ole Thanksgiving dinner. NO! We don’t celebrate that one! The fact that you were all starving to death and then some Native Americans – who you later pooped on – helped you out isn’t really relevant to the English nation. And guess what – they probably don’t celebrate it in Japan either. Though interestingly enough, they kind of celebrate it in Grenada…
