I call it the “Mother-in-Law” syndrome. People who make a career of looking for fault, searching for things to focus outrage upon. The problem is that some of them are so damn good at it that you almost have to admire them.

Of course they do provide a source of entertainment — winding them up can be fun. We have a couple in our office, and I start them down a path to humiliation by leaving “emails” up on my screen then asking one to get something from my desk. I left one up a few weeks ago supposedly about a well known politician proposing that overweight women be banned from appearing on beaches in swimming suits or Bikinis. (My target is overweight and loves to lie on the beach in an almost scary Bikini.) She made a right fool of herself that day.