What Polite Society Thinks of My Son

There is a well read columnist called Miss Manners. The whole point of the column is to inform people about etiquette. You know the stuff, when to write thank-you notes, who to invite to parties, etc. Manners ARE important. We are all stuck on this planet together and manners helps each of us avoid needlessly inconveniencing or hurting each other physically or emmotionally.

In her latest post she decided to give advice to a businessman who was wondering about etiquette doing blood tests on an airplane. This was her response...

...Miss Manners draws the line at drawing blood. Restrooms exist to provide a proper location for such necessary activities when away from home, and those who use them have no business monitoring the respectable, if sometimes unaesthetic, activities of others...

Obviously the Diabetes Online Community (DOC) is in an uproar. But the fact remains... if you want to be considered polite... you have to go to a germ filled washroom a whole bunch of times on your flight and poke holes in yourself because doing anything else will make old ladies, children, busybodies and other people think about diabetes for a second. That is so impolite.

My son is going to have to deal with these shits for the rest of his life. There will always be ill-informed idiots judging my son for doing what he has to do to stay alive.

That sucks...

In my book, it is bad manners to object to someone doing something that they need to do to stay alive and Miss Manners should change the name of her column to Miss Snootyface. But lets face it, we are a minority.