More "Two Kinds of People"

A friend recently took umbrage at my stating, in this very space, that there are two kinds of people in the world: Introverts and Extroverts. I stand by my statement, and if there's a brand of human who is neither of those, he or she has yet to cross my path. But hey, that's not to say there aren't other distinctions, because there are many other "two kinds of people in the world" categories.

By the time you've reached a certain age you're either a Grandparent or you aren't. If you aren't, you have to figure out how to amuse yourself and your friends on your own. If you are, lucky you -- you can just blab about the grandbaby and share pictures and videos of it, and pull out all the adorable clothes you bought for it (or them) and describe what fun you all had yesterday or last weekend or whenever the last time it was that your kids dumped them on you. You are literally brimming -- dare I say overflowing -- with adorable stories forever, certainly until the kid turns into a druggie or a shoplifter, at which time you  may pipe down.

Then there's this: You're either a Dog Person or a Cat Person. (If you hate all animals you are beyond help.) Some are both and they shall reign in the Kingdom of Heaven, but God help the person who loves one and not the other. They shall not be ascending, like the Extroverted, Dog-loving Granny who scolded me for worrying about my cat when I was away for the weekend, saying,"Who cares -- it's just a cat! Just dump some food in a bowl and forget it!"

Then there's another group of two kinds of people: Those who would let a comment like that roll off their back, and those who would remember it and, still smarting, write a blog post about it.