I just had a lousy 5 minute conversation with my mother. She called ranting about how her grandson sent her a link to join some group against gun control and she was going to send them a donation, but she researched them and the phone message said she reached The Department of Agriculture, so she’s furious that it was a scam, yada yada yada...

She had woken me because I’ve been depressed in bed all day (no drugs), and I yawned while she was talking. “Am I boring you?” She gnarled. Whatever I said about her story miffed her, I found myself saying, “I don’t know and I don’t care about sending donations to these stupid political groups, as though that will do something.” She said “well, you were never civic minded” and that was the whole call. Bam