"Bonehead List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ******************************* > *** WEIRD EXTRAS *** > *** Stories without comment *** > ******************************* > > > Why being a quiet person isn't always in one's best interest. > > A man sat at his desk for five days before any of the other 23 office > workers noticed he was dead. > > George Turklebaum, 51, was a proof-reader at the New York firm of medical > publishers. Being such a quiet person, his fatal coronary [it was not being > bored to death] went unnoticed as he sat slumped over. Nobody noticed > anything out of the ordinary. > > And what says his boss, Elliot Wachiaski? > > ''George was always the first guy in each morning and the last to leave at > night, so no one found it unusual that he was in the same position all that > time and didn't say anything. He was always absorbed in his work and kept > much to himself.'' > > BBC 21-Jan-01 > > --------------------------------------------- take care of each other, Brian npimh: the voices of those who love me ===== "No paper thin walls, no folks above No one else can hear the crazy cries of love" yeah, right Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
