My take was a bit different. Many decades ago when I was in college I earned my meals by working at a sorority house populated exclusively by "princesses" from NYC. I was constantly dealing with requests from the young ladies: "my steak is too well done, bring me one that is slightly more pink"; "my lobster is too cold, bring me another one"; "you didn't put out ketchup for the steak, go get it for me"; etc. It was tolerable because the housemother had one inviolate rule: "don't annoy or complain about the cook or the kitchen/waiter staff; it would be hell to find another good crew." So I would politely tell the young "ladies" that I would try and do better the next meal, but what they had was what they were going to get. And if they wanted to desecrate their fine steak, they could go and find the ketchup in the pantry on their own. When I read your Craig's List piece, I felt a bit of sympathy for someone who needed to ask for help, a bit of admiration at the chutzpah of the lady for the picky details, and a bit of deja vu as I thought about those young princesses from long ago.
stan On Mar 22, 2010, at 10:49 AM, ann sanfedele wrote: > > > Rob Studdert wrote: > >> On 22/03/2010, ann sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/wan/1653563837.html >>> >>> just had to share... >>> >> >> I think poor little princess needs to starve a little! >> > Yeah , that's my feeling about it... I was surprised by Igor and PJ's > interp. Igor, I reread it - don't get your spin on that at all - > > Here is the public reply she got : > http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/wan/1653851873.html > > anyway, it was both sad and funny - I read the "wanted" section on > craigslist as > a way of looking for additional income when folk are asking for specific > (household or clothing, e.g. ) > items inexpensively. I kinda hoped that she was someone spoofing the whole > thing of choosy beggars. > > ann > > > > > >> >> > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
