From: carrot@bear.stonemarche.org (Little red-headed girl)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re:   The Difference Injure, II
Date: 7 Jan 93 02:45:04 GMT

In article <66l2j9c@rpi.edu> youngj4@sage4a.its.rpi.edu (Jeffrey 'Taldin' Young) writes:
>
	(much deleted because everyone _must_ have read it by now...
	I'm way behind...)

>staring up at that window, very cooly blowing frost.   Gotta wonder
>what was running through their heads...  Be careful Whose Attention
>You Call For. You may just Get It."
>
>Think this would work for others?  Or was this an isolated one-shot
>victory?  I was sick and tired of ignoring this, and had time on
>my hands to kill.
>
>Taldin and Suds

	Rachel laughs out loud. "My goodness. Yes, that's the way to do
it-- the wrong way, from their point of view. Heck, it isn't FUN for them
if you don't act offended! Reminds me of something that happened at work
last week. I work in a place that typesets books, and occasionally we
have to 'strip' them (putting the pieces of film together so the pages
come out in a certain way). Of course, this has its attendant jokes,
what with the title of the job ("Hey Suzanne, does your mother know you do
stripping at work?"). The bad part is that it is a job that is very dull
and very hard to get exactly right-- the different color plates have to
line up just so, or we take it apart and start all over again. This
creates a lot of stress, and the person who cracks first is, naturally,
the person who enjoys picking on people the most, so he took his stress
out on the rest of us. After he had been attempting to tease me for about
an hour (beginning at 7 AM), I looked at him and said quietly, 'Scott,
one of these days I'm going to tell you what I _really_ think of you.'
The rest of the morning was very peaceful..." <grin>

================================================================
	My apologies to all the people who sent me email-- particularly
kitten and Splash, who made quite the effort! Didi, I thought of you a
lot on December 21st... fortunately it was relatively quiet at work 
around the appropriate time. All my love and hope for you. Brumby, many
congratulations to you as well. Do you know the Fleetwood Mac song
"Rhiannon"? It is well worth looking for.

	On a sad note, the wife of my one good friend at work lost her
baby on Christmas Day, and Jon has been very unreceptive to any gentle
prods to get him to talk about it. He seems to be hurting a lot. I
found out in the most awful way too... I had just heard that Ringling
Brothers/Barnum & Bailey were offering lifetime passes to babies born in
1993, and I was trying to kid him about it... only to be told, in a very
quiet voice, that Kathy had lost the baby... It lived for an hour, he said,
and they named it. I felt awful.

	Ah well... I hope everybody here had better holidays.
 
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