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To: Crocodile who wrote (65633)	10/26/2004 7:44:26 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

That's a lot of loss, croc. I have never thought of you as bowing much to convention anyway, my dear! But you are right about conventions and delays. I find I have less and less patience with cocktail party type events, or anything where the conversation is superficial and lazy. Or one sided. There was a mother of a kid on the swim team when the boys were in high school, and, if you were unlucky enough to sit next to her at a meet, she talked constantly about her child, herself, her life. Never once asked about you. But the WORST part was the next time you sat next to her, she introduced herself as if she had never seen you before and started in all over again. I guess the truth is she never HAD seen you before. And she wouldn't see you that day, or the next. Now that's loneliness. And she doesn't even know it. Listening. Most powerful tool we have in our communications skills and it sits at the bottom of the box so much.

To: Crocodile who wrote (65633)	10/27/2004 12:33:27 AM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Oddly enough it's work that reminds me daily of the changing of the guard. When I started I was number 300 something on the seniority list. I'm now #4, so the number of folks who shared the characters and adventures here with me has dwindled significantly. When I started a lot of the old timers were WWII and Korea vets, and they didn't put up with a lot of crap. The crap was reserved for us rookies. That hasn't changed- I still get treated like crap. But my sentence is nearing its end, and if I survive my psychotic boss for two more years I'll be free.