Posted by Quintal on March 15, 2007, at 20:48:58
In reply to Re: Aaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhh.....Kill Me!!!!, posted by Bob on March 15, 2007, at 16:24:57
>Few people would understand the crazy things I've done, and the unwillingness to face common social situations at times.
Oh I would. In less forgiving times I'm certain I'd have been locked up and in a straightjacket by now.
>I suggest that in the future you have a backup so that if you are going to try to hide, then you can also "appear" out of nowhere and make up some sort of excuse.
Cunning. Do you have any that have proved particularly officious?
>The sickness story you gave actually seems quite adequate to me.
I hope so. I have to email her a photo of my kitchen because it was too messy to take one today. I'm thinking of adding a phrase like 'That'll teach me not to take an extra dose of Night Nurse at breakfast time' to explain my apparent grogginess and lack of nasal discharge etc. I think that would satisfy both criteria as well as my failure to respond to her fog-horn shrieks?
>I can't tell you how many embarrassing and awkward situations I've been in over the years where I've tried to avoid people and not necessarily been entirely successful.
Yes, like when you think they've gone away and start talking to yourself, gesticulating wildly, only to catch a glimpse of a concerned relative peering in through the kitchen window. Or worse, when you decide it's nice to sit naked in the morning sun after a long night-shift while having your breakfast, only for your auntie to sneak in stealthily via the back door, hoping not to wake you because she thinks you've long since gone to bed.
We only create more suffering by our aversion to pain and grasping after happiness - one tenet of the Buddhist faith I cannot argue with.
Q
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