Texas Friendship Day (8-2-09) Reflection: My Own Pet Peeves About Personal Friends

"Texas Friendship Day," a statewide civic event that is scheduled for Sunday, August 2, 2009, poses a grand opportunity to each of you Texans of today.

Not only are you being invited by the Texas House of Representatives to reflect on which personal attributes and personality traits you DO want to see in personal friends of ours.

You are also being implicitly reminded by the Texas House of Representatives to reflect on which personal attributes you DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT TO SEE in a mutual-consent personal friend of yours.

More information about the "Texas Friendship Day" resolution (H.R. 3132) that was approved by you and your Texas House of Representatives colleagues on June 1, 2009, can be found at either or both of the following links:

http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/html/HR03132F.htm

http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/BillLookup/Text.aspx?LegSess=81R&Bill=HR3132

Among my own pet peeves about prospective new personal friends in my own life are:

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to subject me to pranks, "surprise parties," anonymous communications, fraudulent communications, lies, deliberate torture, or criminal mischief.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to deliberately subject me to what he knew at the time to be a false or fraudulent or trumped-up allegation or accusation against myself.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to subject me to non-stop, continuous, noise pollution on a multi-hour, multi-day, multi-year, or multi-decade basis.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to subject me to incessant or continuous noise pollution that is later determined by a first-rate ear, nose, and throat medical specialist whom I myself consult on a multi-year basis, to have inflicted a significant amount of permanent damage to my own hearing capacity and my own medical health.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to be someone who ever physically beats or physically whips myself or any other person, or who himself either condones or "supports" or knowingly permits or authorizes any such conduct.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to be someone who is physically violent toward others.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to be someone who repeatedly comes across as being either ungentlemanly or, if that individual is a woman, unladylike in that she is habitually abrasive and combative and ungracious and petty and humorless and vindictive.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to ever pursue actions or make comments indicating that he seeks to harm myself or anyone else.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to drive a motor vehicle after he becomes inebriated or intoxicated.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to condone or partly finance or wholly finance or support or knowingly participate in a planned snuff movie featuring the alleged planned murder or actual murder of myself or any other cited victim.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to withhold from me any factual evidence or hunches or impressions that friend ever has about which person or persons allegedly seek to harm me or injure me in Austin, Texas.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to be someone who expresses contempt for, antipathy toward, or defiance of law-enforcement officers or the law or the American legal system.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to criticize me incessantly and on a year-round basis.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to be someone who fails to ever once on any occasion offer honest and sincere and substantive words of praise and appreciation to myself, and, when referring to me while talking with others, about myself.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to repeatedly subject me to profane and vulgar and obscene language.

------I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to attempt to censor me or to censor me at any time.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to invite me to consume marijuana or any other illicit drug in any context.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to urge me or pressure me into consuming any illicit drug.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to talk with me incessantly or repeatedly about sex or sexuality or sexual identity or gender identity per se.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to ever urge me or pressure me into violating the law, or to ever order me to violate the law.

----I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to ever at any time subject me against my wishes to involuntary or unwitting consumption of marijuana or any other illicit drug at any time.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to ever express anger toward me or disparage me or verbally abuse me because I myself lead a permanently illicit-drug-free, permanently alcohol-free, lifelong-tobacco-free, clean-talking, facially cleanshaven (no facial hair), tattoo-less, recently-certified-HIV-negative and recently-certified-STD-free, platonically polite, longtime celibate, honest, law-abiding, non-gambling, and crime-deterrence-minded lifestyle.

----I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to be someone who himself ever on any occasion consumes any marijuana or any other illicit drug at any time after he has reached age 30.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to attempt to brainwash myself or anyone else.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to be someone who supports or condones compelled relationships, arranged marriages, sadomasochism, or slavery.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to be someone who fails to honor the legal and Constitutional right of another human being to reject himself.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to subject me to repeated, incessant communications or repeated, incessant comments about individuals whom I have already rejected from my own life and life circumstances.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to exhibit a contempt for or defiance of my own or others' Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Mutual-Consent Association legal rights, or privacy rights.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to tell me that he favors complete solitude and isolation for me in my own life.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to indicate to me that there is no circumstance in which he would ever be willing to introduce me to any of his friends or relatives or his romantic partner.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to repeatedly state to me that he will call me back on the telephone, and then never call me back on the telephone.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to state to me that my ability to continue as a personal friend of his is contingent on my own socioeconomic status or my own income level or my own level of "intellectual attainment" or "intellectual aptitude" or or "intellectual development" or "intellect" or "intelligence quotient" or my own "cultural accomplishment" level being regarded by himself as "sufficient" or "high enough" or "adequate" or "impressive enough" to meet his own cited expectations.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to criticize or attempt to restrict or undermine or prohibit my own legal right to myself associate with any honest and law-abiding legal-status adult person whom I directly enjoy associating with in person and whom I myself directly choose to associate with in a mutual-consent context.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to pursue any conduct indicating to me that he is intolerant toward my own right to have political and religious and personal views and beliefs that differ dramatically from his own.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to ever say "Shut up!" to myself.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to slander me or libel me or subject me to character assassination on a frequent or habitual basis.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to make comments or pursue actions that repeatedly indicate that he fails to acknowledge that I am, in fact, honest, conscientious, friendly, consistently civil, and law-abiding.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to withhold from me evidence he has obtained that one person or group of persons, or one media company or another, has possibly libeled me or slandered me or victimized me through character assassination of myself.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to express defiance of my human and legal and Constitutional right to set my own priorities and set my own course in my own life.

---I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT a personal friend of mine to ever state to me that if I myself choose to move to another city or U.S. state, or if I choose to lawfully emigrate to a foreign nation, that choice of mine automatically prevents him from continuing to be a personal friend of mine.