Your point about the public invitation being the wrong way to do it is a good one. I wasn't thinking, I wrote it on impulse. You are wrong about my intentions, but correct that it was not the right way ask. As you know my private communications have been consistently friendly.
The rest of your points suck the oxygen out of the room I am in. What a cynical point of view. --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > "The invitation itself was hypocritical." > > > > Not for me. > > Uh-huh. Had your intention been sincere, you would > have contacted me privately. But you did it publicly > so everyone would think, Gee, what a nice, forgiving > guy Curtis is. I suspect you also knew perfectly > well that I'd turn you down, which you hoped would > reflect poorly on me. > > You go to great lengths to cultivate a nice-guy image, > but when the chips are down, a rather different > picture emerges. > > > I don't feel the venom that you seem to enjoy. > > Except when you do. > > Friendly > > gestures are part of what lets people transcend (oh shit!) the > > predictable limits of their past communications. > > Been there, done that with you, remember? > > > I don't hold a grudge against you for the nasty things > > you have said about me. > > ROTFL!! Of course not! And I don't hold a grudge > against you for being a hypocrite, either. > > Just for the record, it isn't about "holding a grudge." > That's one of Barry's loaded mantras. It's about > having seen what a person is like, and then finding > that they haven't changed. > > > > > I > > have my own theories about why you act this way. I am only able to > > control how I view you. I don't choose to view you in such a > > relentlessly negative way. I thought a broader context for > > understanding what you are about over lunch would be interesting. > But > > since you took the invitation as an excuse to say something nasty, I > > realize I may be a bit unrealistic about this. > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
