Snob

I have a penpal in Switzerland that I email back and forth with intermittenly. Her English is 'not so good' and mon francais est tres mal so we just happen to get by through our correspondence somehow. What links us is that she likes to travel or go en voyage.

One thing I've recently found out is that we do not have the same taste in music. I'm a big music snob, I admit it. But I think even the most generic tastes in music would agree with me that an email my penpal has sent to me is 'unnatural':

I like much the music of Britney Spears. Before was my sister her fan. I saw Britney in concert in Zurich. It was splendid!

Oh my. My penpal is a fan (in the words of Cindy Adams from Page Six) of a pop tart. Ms. Spears is nowhere on my list of good music, not even at the very, very bottom where some unfavourable mentionables do actually lurk...

I am trying very sincerely (but not altogether successfully) to stop being a music snob for a moment and be open-minded. Just because we disagree on music won't stop me from emailing her...unless, of course, she says she's a fan of Paris Hilton's music. I will have no control over my actions at that point.