The day after Thanksgiving appears to be called "Black Friday". It's a shoppingfest, where all the shops claim to reduce their prices by more than anybody else. I was advised to stay away from shops, since it is sometimes fatal.
There was no need for anyone to worry: the Thanksgiving-dodging went on so long last night that it was nearly noon before I surfaced, with no intention of going near anywhere.
I met a man who wants to change the constitution of the United States: no small challenge. His case, as far as I could follow it, was that if you were a tenant, you didn't have the same protection from the state invading your privacy as an owner did. If, for example, the state requires your landlord to provide smoke alarms, it can enter your premises to check if he's doing that, even if you don't want it too. He's got a point, of course, but it's not a battle I can see him winning. It is probably a general truth about all "Nanny" state activity, that they are invading the privacy of the people they profess to be protecting, and they no doubt abuse these responsibilities from time to time. He wanted people to support him. They wanted to talk about something else.
Later that night, we talked about my next stop, Glasgow Delaware. I managed an American joke which they understood. "Where is it near?" they wanted to know. "It's in Delaware", I said, "everywhere's near everywhere else in Delaware."
We also had more bad taste jokes on the TV. Like "Altzheimer's isn't all bad - you get to meet new people every day!"
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