Terms and Specific Conditions Update

Chapter 28

This one is about a coffee lid, unfortunately.

It is also about the tiny laundering machine in my brain that occasionally takes something morally sticky, runs it through a gentle cycle, and hands it back labeled Respectful Behavior.

Which is inconvenient, because sometimes it is respectful behavior.

And sometimes there is a second thing behind it with its little awful hands on the wheel.

I don’t think shame fixes much. I do think naming the thing can. Or at least it gives you half a second more than you had before – which, apparently, is sometimes the whole moral structure.

Anyway. Coffee lid. A completely normal beverage accessory. Naturally it ruined my life.

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