Loyal Readers: Abby has been kind and thoughtful as 2011 ended and 2012 began. Enough of that! It is cranky time again.

Words are Beautiful!

Why can’t we use them?! Abby does not like acronyms! Things seem to be getting worse and worse in this domain. You will see on TV that you cannot have a descriptive disease anymore. You must have something that is described by three frightening letters. Abby has AAI* syndrome. There is no help.

Would you believe….my kitchen trashcan is proudly marked in big letters: FPR! FPR? What the heck is that?  A warning? Fear Produce in my Refrigerator? A call to political action? Face Proudly the Reactionaries? No. It means Finger Print Resistant. Well, there’s a vital product. I spend a lot of time putting my hands all over the lid of my trashcan, and now I can proudly proclaim myself so very FPR!**

*Annoyance At Idiocy
** Frequently Peckish and Ridiculing