First...
Please tell me that is not you in that picture... I try to keep my thoughts pure when I'm on this site
It's not me.. LOL
Second.....
Marshal'ette,
I hope that you are speaking in hyperbole when you say you can't trust anyone but a close circle of friends. You seem like too nice of a person to really have that world view.
I am VERY VERY VERY VERY soft hearted..and waaaayyy too trusting..
But I really am changing on the trust thing...and becoming more wary. I have been bit in the ass so many times I have lost count on believing what people say.
I have learned to use my own instincts and rely on my gut feeling..So to say I don't trust ANYONE ..is going out on a limb..
but where the government is concerned ..and big business is concerned?
Yep... I don't trust them any further than I could throw them.
That doesn't make any less female ..or "soft" or "nice".. It just makes me sharper, more internally wary. more acutely aware, and on my toes more than I used to be when I thought everyone could be trusted to be, say and act like they said they were.
I guess I am one of those" you get what you see" kind of people..
Not many are like that anymore.
It's sad........