I have a friend in California with whom I worked for several years before retiring. We trade emails fairly often and he generally starts his email with the question, "How is my bored buddy in fly-over country doing?". I have now started my emails with the query, "How is my mummified buddy doing in dry-over country?".

He has taken offense to my humor and says I am being callous and insensitive to the serious problems hissstate faces with the wildfires and water problems. My wife agrees with him and says I tend to be too sarcastic with my humor. Do I owe my friend an apology with my "dry" sense of humor or am I right to defend my boring but "beautifully green and water-blessed" Tennessee?

Meh, he shouldn't give it out if he can't take it.

You owe him nothing. Seems it’s ok for his ass to make fun of people but can’t take rebuttal.
Just keep on being yourself, if he doesn’t like, too bad, he shouldn’t start it.

I kind of see the issue two ways. My knee jerk reaction is that he is being a bitch about it.

Thinking about it further, he is likely to know people who have been seriously effected by the issue… such as losing their home and all of their earthly belongings to wildfire. So in that sense, the two jabs are certainly not proportional. I have never heard of anyone losing it all due to being in flyover country.

I think he is being too touchy, but he is probably contaminated with wokeness and excessive sensitivity from the people he lives among.

If he can't take that he would be way too sensitive for me. But then again I was born and raised in Alabama, lived in Appalachia for close to 20 years - so I really don't care what people say about where I live.

He is both woke and most likely worried.

If he can't take it, he should be quiet

Just apologize and sign all your emails, "maskless in TN"

All else being equal, you've got mosquitoes, you win.

He needs to take the stick out of his butt. With sensitivity like that, he'd last about 10 seconds around here. And yeah, this IS flyover country...we want all the east and west coast nutjobs to fly over and keep on going.

Even though we managed to squeeze out a little rain this morning, this fly-over country has also become dry-over country.

92fstech posted while I was typing my post and I agree, fly-overs can keep on flying over as far as I am concerned.

Just refer to his area as 'fucked over' country. That's what's really happening there (yes, and here in the Northeast where I live).
It's the truth. I know it and I wouldn't be offended by it. If you're offended by the truth, you really have a problem.

I would tell him "thanks, we like Californians just flying over us without stopping". At least that is how I would look at it.

Jim

Send him a case of bottled water to "make up."

^^^^^ And a cord of firewood.

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Originally posted by HRK:

Just apologize and sign all your emails, "maskless in TN"

Yup.

I would call him out for dishing it out and being a little bitch about getting it back. It may not be proportional, but Californians are like a locust plague for this country. Their upity arrogance to believe that because we don’t live in CA we would be bored is comical. I would be who you are, if his shorts are knotted tell him to stop dishing it out.

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Originally posted by HRK:
Just apologize and sign all your emails, "maskless in TN"

I never considered Tennessee flyover country so you should educate him. My definition is pretty much the Mississippi River to the Sierra Nevada and Cascades.

Ask him how all those environmental policies are working out out there?

Tennessee really isn't even flyover country.