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- From: mhr@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Mike Reaser)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: long-term relationships...success stories, please...
- Message-ID: <C018zM.E21@hpuerca.atl.hp.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 18:06:57 GMT
- Article-I.D.: hpuerca.C018zM.E21
- References: <1992Dec17.022140.21531@serval.net.wsu.edu> <RHAYDEN.92Dec24113742@hqsun2.oracle.com> <BzvoK4.537@agora.rain.com> <1992Dec27.155552.20863@spdcc.com>
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- In <1992Dec27.155552.20863@spdcc.com> rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue) writes:
-
- >bcapps@agora.rain.com (Brent Capps) writes:
- >>It's been my observation that there are four 'crisis periods' in a
- >>relationship. T
- >>Between 3 months and 1.5 years you will learn
- >>whether leaving the cap off the toothpaste is grounds for divorce.
- >>Finally, sometime between 7 and 10 years you will resign yourself
- >>to hearing the following question every evening for the rest of your
- >>life: "I dunno, what do YOU want to do for dinner?"
-
- > I think for us these two are reversed... we actually have
- >a script for this...
-
- > Person 1: What do you want for dinner?
- > Person 2: I dunno, what do yOU want for dinner?
- > Person 1: (Realizing that this is an infinite loop)
- > White Castle Burgers it is!
-
- > That usually prompts Person 2 to think of SOMETHING in
- >short order... :-)
-
- In the South, just substitute "Krystal" or "Po' Folks" for "White
- Castle" and you get precisely the same response (although IMHO a
- Krystal and White Castle _are_ the same burger :-).
-
- > Note that this also works in groups of people where N is greater
- >than 2. The person suggesting WCB (or something, like Denny's) has
- >to actually start heading for the car, etc. which makes some of the
- >other people believe [s]he is actually serious about it --- triggering
- >a defense mechanism and hopefully a better suggestion... :-)
-
- Or at least something different. The variation on this theme is "I
- don't care -- you pick something. Anything is OK." When "anything"
- turns out to _not_ be what person #2 really wanted, all hell can
- break loose.
-
- It can be especially scary at times -- two hungry, country bears wanting
- food but not agreeing on what to eat (except each other ;-). It's
- really fun those nights I want, say, Italian and Bobby wants Chinese.
-
- That's when the Food Court at the Mall tends to beckon -- a little
- something for everybody.
-
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