It is a horrible place where you cannot trust anyone because you never ever know who secretly hates you. People seem nice but beneath the veneer of niceness is boiling rage - at what? Who the fuck knows - mostly it's at everyone else for being so goddamn passive aggressive.

Europeans and New Yorkers who visit the Midwest routinely send middle-aged women into cardiac arrest by asking the obvious and common in NY and Europe but un-mentionable in the Midwest: "How can you be so (slow, stupid, retarded, insane)!?!?!" In NY this question is more of a figure of speech, you can say this to someone one minute and buy them a beer the next. But in the Midwest this line is not in the script.

Anyway, this whole weird scenario (and millions like them that happen at work places all over this godforsaken region) could be avoided with a little New York you don't like me fuck you attitude.

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