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- From: jsb16@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jennifer S Broekman)
- Subject: Re: Pet peeve of the day.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.035846.1004@news.columbia.edu>
- Keywords: Grumble Moan Complain
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- Reply-To: jsb16@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jennifer S Broekman)
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 03:58:46 GMT
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- In article <8c52p8=@rpi.edu> safarj@aix.rpi.edu (Jonah Emanuel Safar) writes:
- > Just a random peeve of the day... I hate when people think you are
- >ignoring them when you don't just hop up and answer a page, or a
- >message, email, talk request, post or whatever immeandiately. Did
- >it ever occur to these people that I might be busy, or away...
- >or that my machine here on campus has done one of its usual crashes?
-
- Yeah, I hate that, too. I especially hate it when I'm in the middle of
- something, and I get a talk request from a userid I don't recognize. Being
- a generally friendly person, I sometimes pause what I'm doing and try to
- figure out who's trying to talk to me. Nine times out of ten, repeatedly
- seeing the userid, fingering the userid, etc don't tell me how I'm talking
- to, and the twit who wants to chat keeps flooding my screen... Usually I go
- back to what I was trying to do before I was interupted. I really, really,
- really wish people would get a clue when their fifth talk request isn't
- answered and send email explaining what they want to talk about. It's like
- someone tapping insistently on an office door and refusing to go leave a
- message, despite copious evidence that the person they want to talk to
- doesn't have time or energy to deal with a stranger walking up out of nowhere.
- If you want to talk to someone you've never 'met' before, send a note of
- introduction, for crying out loud...
-
- >Does a grumpy dragon get any hugs for asking?
-
- Of course. *hug* *hug*
-
- -jenneke, who tends to assume that people sending talk requests for no
- reason are idjits who decided to bug someone with an obviously
- female 'In Real Life' name.
-
- Only Boys Accepting Feminism Get Kissed Meaningfully -- Geoff Marcy
- The only unnatural sexual act is that which you cannot perform. - Alfred Kinsey
- jenneke is: jsb16@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu
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