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Old 12-24-2009, 11:53 AM   #16
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usually, but not always, especially if honesty involves revealling some personal issues that you'd rather not share.

eeeeewwww, sam, please try to do that in your elbow or a Kleenex next time. I had no idea it was possible for lurgy molecules to fly that far. impressive!
I'd call a lingering case of Ebola Zaire something that we'd all rather SamIAm not share...
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Old 12-24-2009, 12:07 PM   #17
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Ooooh! Ebola! Does that come on quickly? I have already set the stage when I happened to run into Bill yesterday. I complained of a very bad headache and said I was on my way home to go lay down. I feel rather bad about my little white lie because Bill himself is a nice enough person. Unfortunately his family dynamic is just something that I really don't want to get drawn into, especially as a "hostage situation." I don't have a car and Bill would have to come get me. If I had my own ride, I could stop in for half an hour or so and flee if things started getting strange. Since this is not a possibility, ebola it is.
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Old 12-24-2009, 12:34 PM   #18
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To assuage your feelings of guilt and let Bill know that it's nothing personal, maybe you could suggest getting lunch at some later date. . . when you call to cancel the Christmas soiree.
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Old 12-25-2009, 06:20 AM   #19
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Take a date with you and make him entertain while you nosily plunder through their belongings. It'll be fun ... and they prolly won't ask you again.
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Old 12-25-2009, 06:34 AM   #20
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To assuage your feelings of guilt and let Bill know that it's nothing personal, maybe you could suggest getting lunch at some later date. . . when you call to cancel the Christmas soiree.
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Old 12-25-2009, 07:40 AM   #21
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Take a date with you and make him entertain while you nosily plunder through their belongings. It'll be fun ... and they prolly won't ask you again.
This!
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Old 12-25-2009, 06:30 PM   #22
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So what did you end up doing, Sam?
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Old 12-26-2009, 10:20 AM   #23
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I called in sick. Bill didn't seem upset over it and I ended up spending Christmas with a couple of friends who don't have such potentially explosive family dynamics.
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Old 12-26-2009, 10:26 AM   #24
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a couple of friends who don't have such potentially explosive family dynamics.
Who are these folks? I thought they were a mythical beast, like unicorns.

Glad you escaped, Sam.
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Old 12-27-2009, 10:30 AM   #25
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Who are these folks? I thought they were a mythical beast, like unicorns.
Actually, their families all live far, far away so I don't really know if the families are dysfunctional or not. I think their is a direct relationship between distance and amount of dysfunction.
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Old 12-27-2009, 12:11 PM   #26
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That's the classic advise given to bachelors: marry an orphan.
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Old 12-28-2009, 10:45 AM   #27
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So Sam, how your Ebola virus doing.

Hope you are recovered! Get well soon.
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Old 12-28-2009, 02:45 PM   #28
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Thank you, Merc, I'm recovering nicely. And apparently "Bill" is not too mad at me because he asked me to join him and the gang for a sober New Year's thing our town is putting on - no family allowed. LOL
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Old 12-28-2009, 11:24 PM   #29
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That's the classic advise given to bachelors: marry an orphan.
But don't take their word for it... check thoroughly.
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