The Idiots Guide to Dealing with Idiots

Don’t Offer Information Part 1

I don’t do this one well. I tend to spill my guts to whoever is seated next to me—which is why I have made so many friends on flights between Maryland and Ohio. The conversation doesn’t always go well, though, especially if I’m talking to an adamant anti-medication person who believes all psychiatrists are agents of the devil, involved in a racket with Big Pharma, reaching into the pockets of innocent people everywhere, and spilling poison into the bloodstreams of children.