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My friend Jimmy pushes buttons. He tells people their haircuts are bad or that their ethnic cuisine is smelly or that they should go kill themselves. <\/p>\n
Underneath this veneer of infantilism he is really funny and smart. In fact, when I\u2019m down there are only a handful of people who can make me smile and he is one of them. Despite our steady friendship every once in a while he\u2019ll try to make me upset. He\u2019ll say something like Croats stink or something equally absurd and ineffectual. This amuses me greatly and I\u2019ve often wondered if he\u2019ll ever figure out how to actually upset me. I also wondered about what he could possibly do to upset me. Well, he finally did something that made me feel like crap.<\/p>\n
The best part about is that he didn\u2019t do anything out of character or anything much worse than what he\u2019s said or done a million times before. In fact, he did something frivolous and of very short-term consequence. It is just that he finally found my button. You can tell a lot about people from their buttons. <\/p>\n
Go Jimmy! It took you seven years to make me flinch. Here\u2019s to another seven years of you guessing wrong! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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