Would You??

My dad and I have never lived in the same town or even in the same state since I was four. Even during his final illness, I could not be there, and none of us were able to attend his funeral, so we had one here for him. So for me, the question was moot. Sadly, things happen that way with families. Dad had finally moved here for three years before his final illness, and my sister and I made our peace with him. My younger brother never did. Then dad returned to Arizona to "take care of business" as he said, but actually to die. We could not afford the trip, and besides, he went quickly, only one day in the hospital. And a Military funeral, cremation, followed.

Enough though! Would you tell a friend he/she hurt your feeling badly or try to let it slide?

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Nope... I wouldn't... if everything is ok, well... sometimes things have a way of turning upside-down... I guess it would depend on why he's in the hospital and how severe whatever it is is. If it's not the worsest thing in the world (that times a thousand)... then... meh... sure, why not.

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Actually this was a real life dilemma for me yesterday. I had intended to go this morning, but then last night my father developed fever again (he's got pnuemonia but was doing nicely), and so I cancelled my trip. Digital's response was convincing: "things have a way of turning upside-down."

I would tell, because the friend has no way of knowing she hurt me if I never said anything about it. Not that I would be blunt about it, or hurt her in return, but still, it needs to be said. Although for smaller things I am inclined to let it slide, no need to make a big deal out of everything.

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If it was something deliberately mean, with no two different interpretations, I'm inclined to be silent and grow very cold towards them. If, however, it was just a slip of the tongue, them saying something on a subject that I'm sensitive about, I usually let it slide, and try to deal with the problem of my own over-sensitivity. In either case, confronting the person like a mature adult never seems to be an avenue I pursue. :rolleyes: If I get hurt, I tend to blame myself for being weak.

If you saw someone famous, would you ask for their autograph/take their picture/become otherwise unusually excited?

A little while back, a very famous person came into my workplace, and I waited on them and they left, and it was very pleasant. But the person I work with can't stop talking about it, and she got so nervous in the moment I had to do all the talking. I've wondered if there's some innate chemical reaction that causes some people to freak out when they see someone famous.

Yep, I would ask the person for autograph and I will be really excited.

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No, unless they're someone I really admire...like Tiger Woods, or Thierry Henry.

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No, I would be hard pressed to recognize them as being famous anyway. It happened once that I was just chatting with someone, turned out she was a famous dutch actress. It was a just chat about nothing really, and I only found out afterwards she was well known. I should have asked her for her digits. :D

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Generally no, but I did get in line to meet Tom Morello and since everyone else was getting stuff signed and it was for his Axis of Justice cause - I bought a $4 poster and had him sign it. I told him I was probably too old for this and he said he was too. but I didn't get overly excited.

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Never happened to me. How to react I don't know.

Would you ask for help from your foes if you have no way out but to do so?

I guess it depends on the ramifications. If it's life or death, yes. If I'm out a few dollars, no.

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If I had to, certainly. To let a grudge get in the way of an objective (assuming the objective is noble) is just silly and immature.

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And to the celebrity question: I keep rehearsing how I want to react when I meet someone like that. I imagine they get pretty miffed (or at least bored) when someone goes into a panic attack everywhere they walk. So, I'd try not to, but no guarantees.

it depends on what i need, if it is an emergency then yeah maybe

this happens to me all the time: would you keep critisizing your best friend although you know they get annoyed of it?

Probably not, I've been known to cut off my nose to spite my face at times. But if it was life and death then maybe.

How many emails do you have in your inbox right now? (I just cleaned mine and I'm astonished to find they go back to 2004

Mine don't go back to 2004, but, I'm not at work, so I don't know the exact count, but it's around 2300. Everyone is astonished at that, but I hate filing them away.

No. I would only give advice when I'm asked. (my inbox goes back to 1997!)

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I'm nor sure what I have saved in my folders in my inbox, I keep letters from friends, letters from my editor, etc., filed away in folders there. Other than that, I empty it every day-- emails from friends are saved, other import e-mails are also saved, the spam filter dumps a lot of stuff which I sort through, and see if something was accidentially dumped. Can't help it, I'm a neat freak! :)

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Well, I have so many calls upon my life each day and try to keep our home extremely clean and well organized and my personal space and all that jazz. As for my email inboxes and my pm box just anyone on this forum almost knows that I am ALWAYS getting that dread email from litnet to clean out my box. I am forever downloading the text and cleaning it out and I got a letter from the admin to fastmail begging me to do it regularly as well, so no I only do it if not forced to about once a month.

Would you ever go to dinner with someone you never met on the say so of a good and trusted friend?

A blind date? Or just dinner with someone? If I were single, I would go on a blind date if I trusted the opinion of the person bringing us together. Dinner alone with someone I don't know just for the sake of meeting a particular person I probably would not. I would have that someone bringing us together come along.

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Blind Date, sure why not, but just dinner, don't really see the point, so I asume you mean a blind date.

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I am painfully single, so I would. If a friend of mine ever felt ambitious enough to try to hook me up with someone I would have to go just to see what sort of person she was.

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Why not! I see it fascinating to come across new people and talk with them. In both cases I would.

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I would, but the thing that springs to my mind is "safety." I would automatically start thinking of horrible scenarios in which it starts raining and he offers a ride home, then carts me off to some basement of horrors, or other less outlandish yet equally unpleasant variations. I prefer lunch—less expensive, more daylight.

Would you wear a raincoat and goloshes to work for one full day for $30?

Damn straight.Goloshes are sweet.





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Considering I went dressed as a Clown for free, why not? Hee-Hee! ;) Couldn't be a clown now, the makeup would clash with the beard.

What was your most embarassing moment at work?

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I would, but the thing that springs to my mind is "safety." I would automatically start thinking of horrible scenarios in which it starts raining and he offers a ride home, then carts me off to some basement of horrors, or other less outlandish yet equally unpleasant variations. I prefer lunch—less expensive, more daylight.

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:lol: A little paranoid, emily? I hope you haven't had any horrid dates like that. I guess for a woman (and me not) it must have to cross your mind.

No, luckily no such dates as of yet. :p Funny that a thought like that would come to my mind in regard to a dinner-date, though. The first many "dates" that I had, if you could call them that, were alone with my now-boyfriend in his dorm room, sitting on his bed, **innocently** watching movies together on his computer—and the thought of "safety" never even crossed my mind! Luckily he's not the sort of boy I need have worried about, but gosh does that seem stupid now.

To answer Pen's question: The most embarrassing moment at work. (My co-worker is still laughing about this one.) I was feeling dizzy one day, recovering from an illness, and put a pillow (read: merchandise) on the floor behind the counter to lean on while I sat down for a minute. My co-worker was talking to me, so she didn't see until the last moment that MY BOSS was just about to walk in the door. I panicked, and started running to put the pillow back, but it was too late—my boss walked in the door and I stumbled in mid-stride, holding the pillow, and staring at her like a deer at an on-coming car. The woman I work with thought fast, saying, "Oh! Are you okay? That was some trip!" I had to walk over and put the pillow back, and return and talk to my boss, who is—thankfully—pretty flakey, and didn't say a thing about it. After she left, the other woman laughed for about two hours straight. "You should have seen the look on your face!" she said.

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Damn straight.Goloshes are sweet.





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hey Ry, you are not a Newfie are you? :lol: goloshes are SWEET? :lol: :lol: :lol:
for thirty dollars, yes I guess although I hope they would be red like my face. But I would give the money to a couple of people on the street for breakfast and swallow my shame. :blush:

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Heck, I asked the question, so I'll tell on myself. I went to work in a factory right out of highschool, since Martha and I were planning on an early marriage. I worked there and became a minister as well, so I pulled double duty for 16 years. I had taken a better paying job on a different machine, and was lost in my work and singing my head off as usual. That's why I never saw the Plant Manager making his morning rounds that day. It was also why I never noticed that he had the CEO of the Company with him. So the Plant Manager steps into my work area to introduce me to the CEO, and just then I hit the Hydraulic Switch to drop the next load of doors. That whole shelf shot out, as it was supposed to. I was off couse, standing clear. The Plant Manager took it in the hip and went sprawling, almost into the glue containers and the open 55 gallon drum of transmission fluid we used to clean the machine with. I don't hear or see him. Down come the doors, the shelf is back up, I release the clamps, turn around, and freeze. The CEO sticks out his hand, tells me who he is and asks my name. I mange to get it out, but I'm looking at the Plant Manager whose suit is now dirty, and is rubbing his hip and looking daggers at me. I later found out that the CEO told the Plant Manager that he was glad to see someone enjoying their job, obeying saftey rules that were clearly posted on the wall, and that the whole thing was his own fault. But you could have lit a match on my red face when I turned around that day! :blush:

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haha, that's good pen!

One of my embarrassing moments: I worked for a small company, everybody knew everybody. The woman that ran inventory control was a real doosie, always ready to blame other people for problems and always ready to point out other peoples mistakes. My lab was on the second floor, the front stair case lead directly into the front office. Well one day I was all excited about something and I have a tendency of running down stairs. This day I come charging down the stairs, I missed the last step, tripped and landed flat on my face all sprawled out in the front office. I look up and the inventory control lady and her right hand man were standing there looking at me like I had lost my mind. I got up, said hello, and walked into my bosses office.


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Oh, Pen and Papaya, those are both great. :lol:

(I just noticed that this is the "Would You???" thread, not "ATPBY," just for whoever asks the next question. :))

Yes, I noticed, Emily. But your story tickled my funnybone and I couldn't help it. Maybe we should start a thread or something. Hee-hee. Great one, Grover! :D :thumbs_up

A close friend you have been nagging to do her coursework for a long time turns up the night before the deadline and asks for help with it (a lot of help). If you don't help, she will fail her degree. Would you help?

Actually, and this is not bragging on my part, I helped a good many of my classmates get their degree when I went back to school to prove to people that I could get one myself, because they, like so many people in this old world, think a person who suffers from my disabillity would be unable to actually complete requirement for a degree. I received my AAS Degree in IST in 2000 Summa Cum Laude, a respected member of the Honors Society. I then worked tech support for a computer firm for almost a year, but alas, it was not to be. But yes, I would help anyone I could, because I have been disrespected enough in life, and told I couldn't do something to sympathize.

Do you tend to make snap judgements about people, or reserve opinion until you get time to know them a little better?

I do reserve all of my opinions until I am asked about them, or provoked to express them. But I also tend to make relatively quick judgements and am quite stubborn in sticking to them (but I can be persuaded nontheless). Can these two things be compatible?

You're probably right for helping them. I'm sorry to hear about your computing job. But it sounds like you have plenty of strength and courage to achieve many other things. I would help too, I can't let my friends down.

I'm rather an observer, meaning I tend to observe people behaviour miticulously before giving any judgement. Hasty conclusions leads nowhere but to conflict.

Would you adopt someone's a child if you are asked to?

No, never, I am not particularly fond of children, and I definitely would never adopt one. They better take care of it themselves.

Would you start a conversation with a stranger if the stranger seemed interesting?

I usually do. Part of my university studies were on cross-cultural differences that's why I'm always ready to talk to strangers or rather listen to them and try to identify what is commen and what is different between us.It helps building one's personality a lot.

Would you argue to deffend your thoughts or listen and try to understand what others whant to prove?

I do both, I try to understand, and often find that by putting myself in someone elses position really helps, however, if I disagree with what they are saying, I will offer my own opinion on the matter, and try to explain how I see things, while still having respect for their opinion.

Would you rather spend the night at the place of someone you know but dislike or in a hotel if given the choice?

Whitout further explanation, I choose the hotel. It hapened many times to me.

Would you spend the whole night awake on the forum, although you have to wake up early in the morning, if you are involeved in an intresting thread that you enjoy so much?

Hehe, not if I have to be up early. If I have a thought that's sticking in my head about it, I sometimes jot down notes to remember what I wanted to say. But I figure the Forum's not going to go anywhere overnight. :) Are you finding yourself in this dilemma, Adil? :p

Would you rather buy someone a present from a store, or make one yourself (like a painting or cookies)?