Yes, we are under so much pressure to be always nice to them, always a jolly good time to be had from us, always a cheery word of encouragement, that sometimes we forget that they are a little bit like rats or cockroaches, that if we feed them too well they will come back around later and eat us out of house and home, and if we slip and are too mean to them that would give them something to use against us later anyway. So either way, they are a misery to be around. But I should not have to explain their game to you. You should already know that.
