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OT odd news
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Marsha wrote:
Does anyone else find this hilarious? http://tinyurl.com/9gfbh Yeah. I do. I can see the chapter in her memoirs - "The Great Catsup Conflagration..." Pastorio |
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Marsha wrote: Does anyone else find this hilarious? http://tinyurl.com/9gfbh Marsha/Ohio Only in England... ;-) -- Om. "My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson |
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Marsha wrote:
|| Does anyone else find this hilarious? || || http://tinyurl.com/9gfbh || || Marsha/Ohio I don't get it. If the woman spilled ketchup on her boss's trousers, she should have offered to pay his cleaning bill rather then be put out or offended when he requested it. I don't understand why this is even newsworthy. The woman has no common social graces. -- Peter Website: http://users.thelink.net/marengo |
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"Marengo" wrote in message
news:i5ote.35083$rb6.4316@lakeread07... I don't get it. If the woman spilled ketchup on her boss's trousers, she should have offered to pay his cleaning bill rather then be put out or offended when he requested it. I don't understand why this is even newsworthy. The woman has no common social graces. Evidently he makes a lot of money and she makes very little. They didn't say, but I suspect she may have spilled the ketchup while bringing his lunch to him. I could see if she was throwing french fries in the cafeteria and hit him she should pay, if she was doing him a favor by running his errands then he should eat it, so to speak. -- No Husband Has Ever Been Shot While Doing The Dishes |
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Marengo wrote:
Marsha wrote: || Does anyone else find this hilarious? || || http://tinyurl.com/9gfbh || || Marsha/Ohio I don't get it. If the woman spilled ketchup on her boss's trousers, she should have offered to pay his cleaning bill rather then be put out or offended when he requested it. I don't understand why this is even newsworthy. The woman has no common social graces. Perhaps, someone has no sense of humor, or common sense. |
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That's the difference between Americans and Brits. In US, from what
I've read, it looks like is general ettiquette to pay for dry cleaning whenever you spilled stuff over other pple's clothes. Here in UK pple would think - (1) it's only 4 pounds, you can't even get 2 beers with 4 pounds, you can hardly get 1 beer at hotels in London with 4 pounds; (2) the lawyer makes so much more money than the woman, may be several times more than the woman. The social convention in here (at least in Scotland) is that the richer pay for the poorer. I have find it very hard to get my colleagues to let me pay for beers, everytime they said "but I earn so much more than you!!" push me away from the bar, ordered for everybody and then paid for the beers. Other times they would time their drinking so that whenever "poor, young" people offers to buy a round of beers, they'd say "no no no I've still got mine". Once I took a guest speaker, a full professor, out for dinner on university's expenses and I had to plead him to let me buy him a whisky. (3) some lawyers charge their clients loads of money by the hour and here he spent his precious minutes writing that email and to ask for 4 pounds? (4) Add to that the woman's mother had just died! |
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Marengo wrote:
:: Marsha wrote: :::: Does anyone else find this hilarious? :::: :::: http://tinyurl.com/9gfbh :::: :::: Marsha/Ohio :: :: I don't get it. If the woman spilled ketchup on her boss's :: trousers, she should have offered to pay his cleaning bill rather :: then be put out or offended when he requested it. I don't :: understand why this is even newsworthy. The woman has no common :: social graces. This is a surprising post my you, Peter. If you read the article, you should note several things: 1) it was an accident, 2) the lawyer is highly paid, 3) the secretary mother had just died and she had to attend the services, etc. 4) the lawyer is emailing her (on work computers and time) about 4 pounds. 5) the woman paid the money Exactly who it is that lacks social graces? Personally, I wouldn't press anyone in that situation about a measely $8 dry-cleaning bill. In fact, I'd just let the entire situation pass as it was an ACCIDENT. Accidents do happen, peter. |
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Wow, you take away his american citizenship becoz of his comments?
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I'm posting from google. Workplace newsreader down. Bear with me for
the time being. |
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