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- Path: sparky!uunet!autodesk!booter
- From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: People Who Think I Have Nothing To Do
- Message-ID: <18267@autodesk.COM>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 00:42:25 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.091752.1996@cs.umb.edu> <1i0lfnINNbrs@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>
- Sender: news@Autodesk.COM
- Organization: The Autodesk Menagerie - Housecat Division
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- In article <1i0lfnINNbrs@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
- >
- >
- >Tangentially related peeve: People who don't believe me when I say
- >I'm busy. Especially those who reflexively say, "Well, *make* time!"
- >when I tell them I don't have time for something. I like to think
- >there's a particularly fetid corner of Hades reserved for their
- >kind.
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- Ditto for social occasions as well. I have a friend who likes to drop by and
- will not take "no" for an answer. Its hard to say, "I want to be alone when
- I clearly have some guest or guests already in the living room." I want to get
- a tee shirt that says, "What part of NO don't you understand?"
-
- ER
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