Recently, I have starting reliving the early-90s! It was bygone time of discovery and mayhem. An acquaintance (a friend of a friend) from that era still sends an update newsletter on rare occasion. I find this correspondence very amusing because the “news” is laden with a string of accomplishments in a braggadocios tone. It’s more one-upmanship than a recounting of the last year or two.
It’s not that this fellow (I’ll call Mason) is a haughty snob in total, but one gets the impression his detailed mention of his new fully-loaded Hummer, his improved physique, his new beach house, or his fat 401K is a big deal to him and should be pretty darn impressive to his readership too. I’ve really started to find him annoying ...