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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (51019)	8/13/1999 7:20:00 AM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Why Laving May Upset Some People This little story illustrates the principle: Joan, who was rather well-proportioned, spent almost all of her vacation sunbathing on the roof of her hotel. She wore a bathing suit the first day, but on the second, she decided that no one could see her way up there, and she slipped out of it for an overall tan. She'd hardly begun when she heard someone running up the stairs. She was lying on her stomach, so she just pulled a towel over her rear. "Excuse me, miss," said the flustered assistant manager of the hotel, out of breath from running up the stairs. "The Hilton doesn't mind your sunbathing on the roof, but we would very much appreciate your wearing a bathing suit as you did yesterday." "What difference does it make?" Joan asked rather calmly. "No one can see me up here, and besides, I'm covered with a towel." "Not exactly," said the embarrassed man. "You're lying on the dining room skylight."

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (51019)	8/14/1999 6:38:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

This is not a reply to the post it's linked to. Beta wouldn't let me reply to the actual one. No, the envelope didn't start out empty. My mother was mad, and an out of control hysteric, and depressed, and paranoid and violent, but she wasn't evil. This is my opinion; because if she couldn't help all the strange things she did, it doesn't seem right to call her evil. She had had a horrible childhood, and did much better by us than was done by her. Also, that would have been a lie, pretending to put the dollar in the envelope. Oddly enough, although I can tell you many utterly awful things she said, I couldn't tell you a single intentional lie she told us. Of course her perception was often weird, so the relation of her 'truth' to reality wasn't always above criticism; but that's not the same as a lie. When my mother was in her fifties, she did some nice thing for her mother, and Grandma said to her, "You're not such a bad daughter!" Mama said, "That is the first compliment you have ever given me."