On Oct 4, 2007, at 1:17 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
Write the ticket and get on with your life so I can get on with mine. Don't keep standing there demanding that I apologize to you. I have *no problem* with paying the fine. But just write the ticket and stop demanding my attention. Being booted off of Fairfield Life is the fine; indulging your or other people's desire to be apologized to isn't.
Flawed analogy, Barry. It isn't so much what you say when a cop stops you, as what you seemed to have learned from the experience--you know, speeding can endanger your own life and that of others as well. Bet you anything if you gave the most beautiful apology in the world, but then promised to go right on speeding, you'd not only get a ticket, but probably arrested as well.
You seem to feel that any concession whatsoever, even ones that make a lot of sense *as well as* making your own life easier (and safer), are somehow suspect and not worthy of a moment's reflection. I know other people who also flip off people as easily as you seem to, always imagining they're being taken advantage of, that someone else is purposely wasting their time, etc. The idea that whatever the person said was possibly warranted and not just idle blather seems never to occur to them--and they've had very unfulfilling lives as a result.
BTW, I didn't see any demand for an apology. Sal
