Remember the time I was at a stoplight in my old Corolla, belting out Bohemian Rhapsody complete with the opera part, and the lady in the minivan next to me just gave me this slow, disappointed head shake like I'd personally let her down? I still belt it out anyway, but now I wonder if she was judging my range or just my taste. Either way, that truck guy sounds way more fun than the minivan moms I keep ending up next to at lights.

Have you noticed this happens everywhere now, not just at work? Teachers tell kids the same thing, churches tell their members, even parents tell their own kids to watch what they say online. It used to be you could have a dumb opinion at a bar and it was gone by morning. Now it follows you forever, and everybody knows it, so we all just keep our mouths shut and nod along. That crew in Portland was really just the small version of what most of us already do every day.