Founders at Work.pdf

Mena Trott 417
There was one post where I made a joke about wanting a banjo, and it was
like, “Ben, he’s such a tyrant, he won’t let me have a banjo.” I don’t have any
instruments, and why should I buy a $300 banjo?
He was right, but I was trying to make him seem like this villain. The point
of the joke was, “Boy, she’s really stupid about wanting something and he’s
being reasonable.” And I got all these emails saying, “You should leave your
husband,” and “How much does he spend on beer in a year?” All these things
that were such judgments. And it’s like, (1) you didn’t get my joke (it’s really
hard to translate humor on the Web), and (2) shut up, don’t talk about my husband
that way.
That was the peak of my wanting to talk about everything. Or wanting to
talk to a lot of people.