Consider Myself Smacked

I like to think that I have a pretty good sense of humor.  I like making people smile, smirk, and laugh and I try to do this in my posts whenever I can.  Unfortunately I have a tendency to go a little (or in some cases a lot) too far.  It is a fine line between funny and mean spirited and I sometimes cross that line.  I think my filter, the one that most people have that tells them to keep your mouth shut, is a little leaky.  My mouth, and now my posting, has gotten me in trouble before.  My last two posts are cases in point.

My last hiking post had a paragraph about the Aeroplane Inn in Honey Creek, IA.  Looking back I said some pretty nasty things about a person and a place that I really had no right to say.  I was called out on the mat by a commenter and, since he/she was right,  I removed the offending words and apologized.  I just wish I'd done this before I'd posted.

The second instance was from my Walnut/Speeding Ticket post.  I implied that I'd got the ticket because of the Wife.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  While I did worry about missing the kick off of the Wife's game, she repeatedly and cleared told me that she wasn't worried about missing it and that it didn't really matter.  Didn't stop me from speeding and getting the ticket, events that were totally of my doing.

As an explanation, but not an excuse, I composed both of these posts after I'd got my ticket.  I was not in the best of moods and unfortunately I let this skew my judgment and writing.  Next time I should cool off before I write.  My sincerest apologises to both the Aeroplane Inn, its proprietor, and the Wife.