Tip-Off #105 - Familiar strangers
"I do desire we may be better strangers." ― William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
There are no circumstances in which we are likely to say, "I'm sorry, I can't talk to you right now. I'm busy thinking about myself." Oscar Wilde would not have said, "I'm sorry”: "I am always thinking about myself and expect everybody else to do the same." More soberly, psychologists say, "Protecting privacy, people can control…
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