I feel a bit sorry for her but also hope she will learn a bit about real life from this... good luck, princess ecke
2010/3/23 Stan Halpin <[email protected]>: > 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. > -- 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.
