> This proxy war probably also accounts for some of the box’s aggressive cheeriness, its implicit insistence that you should always be hosting. > Maybe because

> This proxy war probably also accounts for some of the box’s aggressive cheeriness, its implicit insistence that you should always be hosting. > Maybe because I was born too late You were just born too late. Home parties were more common before. And the kids were allowed to play alone outside and nobody knew exactly where they were until they came home. I can go forever pointing the obvious to us old enough...