Say what you mean and mean what you say
One of my biggest gripes about people is that so many people are dishonest. I would like to be able to trust everyone to be forthright and say what they mean. There are just so many out there that don’t say what they mean, and it leaves me guessing what they REALLY meant by that! And there are also too many people who don’t mean what they say. An insincere apology is worse than no apology at all.
I think that may be one reason why I prefer the company of animals to people (for the most part.) At least with an animal, you can trust them to be that animal. You know where you stand with it. You know that a snake is a snake, and that they can be trusted to be a snake. It’s much harder with people; there are a lot of people that are really snakes in disguise. I’m always dismayed when I discover a human snake.