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To: MSI who wrote (4598)	8/21/2002 1:59:51 PM
From: Tradelite	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

One family tradition that has gotten wrecked over time by civilization is the good old-fashioned Fourth of July. Have great memories of visiting uncles and cousins in the Midwest every year. One uncle had a cabin out in the country, and we kids spent hours sitting on the roof of the outhouse lighting thousands of firecrackers, while Dad and uncle blew up metal cans with cherry bombs. You can get arrested for this stuff nowadays. And outhouses violate zoning laws just about everywhere.

To: MSI who wrote (4598)	8/21/2002 2:09:15 PM
From: GraceZ	Respond to of 306849

I'd like to see some numbers comparing hours working/discussing work/thinking about work, versus non-work socializing, compared with 50 years ago. I knew my own social situation was getting a lot less fun back when I was still single. My friends and I would go to parties and we couldn't help noticing that there were more and more people there who were looking to schmooze work then wanting to get laid. You want to ruin my good time, try talking to me about a job at a party. I remember going out to dinner years ago during tax season. When I came out of the restaurant I saw my accountant. I bit my tongue because I had something related to my tax return to tell her, but I didn't dare bring it up. She was out having a good time with her husband, so we made some pleasant small talk. Later my husband and I went to a party where there happened to be a lot of my clients, I was feeling pretty good that I resisted the urge to bring up business to my accountant. I'd had a miserable day and I was looking to relax. The third person I saw at the party was the client most responsible for that miserable day. He puts his arm around me and says, "What we did today isn't going to fly. The art director and I will be in first thing Monday morning to do it over." I was instantly deflated. I don't know if people have given up more time to work than 50 years ago. Certainly back when we were an agrarian society people had far longer work days and even when we were a nation of factory workers we had longer work days. Running the household if you were the housewife or farm wife was a fairly time consumming occupation 50-100 years ago. Maybe now we simply have the means to question whether or not it is worth the effort with people all over the world rather then just with our immediate social circle.