On being rude ...

[notmattlythgoe]

Originally Posted by gblake

And ...
Read, then think.

I'm still beating my drum - It's not a one-way street.

Unfortunately it is a one-way street. You as the writer cannot control how your reader is going to interpret what you write. But you can do the best you can to not give them the option to interpret it as rude.

In my opinion it is rarely going to work to "hope for the best" from the reader.