Re: (OT) Saying Goodbye Is Never Easy

From: Mike Simmons (mikes_at_nospam.mtwilson.edu)
Date: 03/29/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:29:51 -0800

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 07:50:53 -0800, Martin R. Howell wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 00:40:22 GMT, Richard DeLuca wrote:
>
>
>> Unfortunately, I no longer find it relaxing, and the last couple of days
>> have made me realize that it's often more pain than joy around here
>> anymore.
>
>
> It is sad that this thread has now morphed into a vehicle which drives home
> Mr. DeLuca's point.

A simple but quite accurate observation, Martin. It reminds me of a phone
conversation a friend had with her parents. She was planning on going home
for the holidays and called to tell her parents that she would go only if
they agreed not to be at each others' throats the whole time she's there.
Her parents were on separate phones and each started accusing the other of
causing the problems. Eventually they were just arguing with each other --
over the extensions in different parts of their own home -- and ignoring my
friend. She hung up the phone and left them arguing, probably not even
noticing that she was gone for quite some time. She didn't go home for the
holidays that year.

Mike Simmons

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