I'm especially fond of the waiter at the village pub; things aren't going the way he wants, in life, and he has forgotten (perhaps willfully) to put on an act. In icy silence, he brings your food. When you offer thanks, he says, "No problem," and his tone conveys a different message. "This--all of this--is, emphatically, A PROBLEM." The young waiter has a colleague--and these two flirt inappropriately during the overlap in their work hours. Maybe they'll have a brighter future. *** A kid at the high school died via suicide; the teachers did not know how to respond, so they banned "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao." There is a suicide in that novel...ergo.... Local critics complained. We don't discuss suicide when a suicide occurs? Do we also ban "Hamlet," "Les Miserables," "Anna Karenina," "Spring Awakening," "Mrs. Dalloway," "Oedipus," "Macbeth," "Fun Home,...