I'm a wind-blown seed in the land of greed, living with a dream gone wrong

[venta]

When the mother had found a particularly good bargain or, say, successfully bought all her Christmas cards in the January sales, she would refer to herself as Meenus McMinnie. I never really knew why. She just did.

Having had a busy week this week, I've only just got round to reading this week's letter from the mother. In it, she describes herself as Mean-As-Muck Minnie.

Oh.

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

A very guessed guess: historically, our society has been very much stratified by your wealth, or at least your appearance thereof. Accordingly, I never wish to admit to being careful with money in case you immediately assume I am of a lower social class than you, and should thus be snubbed rather than conversed with.

(That's a canonical "I" and "you", by the way, not thee and me in particular ;)

[lathany.livejournal.com]

I reckon that sounds very plausible.