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totally inappropriate have you ever received a totally inappropriate gift from someone? or worse yet, given one? thinking it was funny or cute only to be met with a look of horror? ever walked into a room looked around and just grimaced? everyone else dressed to the nines and there you are in jeans and a tank top? made a comment that was flippant, like "who died?" only to be met with, " joe riley". aargh in times like these, it really is important how you carry yourself. do you cut and run? sure, that's an option. but if you have to stay the course...and usually you do, you need a better plan, right? my sister blames it on me. margie bought it, margie told me it was casual, etc, etc. i am her perennial out. i have long since given up trying to change this. i am the black sheep and now when i arrive, people nod knowingly and treat me like i'm either a bit eccentric or an old drunk. rather liberating in my sister's group of friends. grins. i used to over apologize which just made it more of an issue. not anymore. maybe i'm just less concerned with being the clown. or maybe when you get older, the little things just seem little. nope, now i just smile benignly and move on. if i'm not uncomfortable then most other folks aren't either. funny how that works. and if good manners mean anything, it's to ensure the comfort and ease of those present, eh? like that lovely older gentleman in pretty woman....remember that dinner scene? now that was totally appropriate. You cannot conceive the many without the one. |
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1/16/2012 1:19 pm |
Oh yes i have a few times over the years . Not rude or crude . Just bad timing most of the time . A few practical jokes that went sideways also .
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I just say I ran out of lithium...so far it has worked pretty well. 
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"if i'm not uncomfortable then most other folks aren't either" I know this oh so well...One morning, right before I was to present before an audience of 50 at a client, I spilled coffee on my very white shirt. There was no time for me to go back to the hotel and change. My way of handling such things is to make a joke (self-deprecating, of course) and move on. That's what I did and the presentation went very well. The key for me was to really let it go. ps - I spilled water on my shirt 4 months later, right before the closing presentation and got a good laugh from the audience when I made a joke tying the two things together! Always tell the truth Use kind words Keep your promises Giggle and laugh Be positive Love one another Always be grateful Forgiveness is mandatory Try new things Say please and thank you Say your prayers Smile ~Author unknown
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oh yes, those types of things happen to me.. best thing is to laugh it off and hope they ultimately forget the snafu.. Captivate my mind...and who knows what will follow. Discover more of my ramblings at [blog geysergirl] 
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that's the best scene in the movie. Love that guy! Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. Other women cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies. For vilest things Become themselves in her, that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish. ~~ from Antony & Cleopatra
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Oh my goodness....... last year, I had to attend this "society thing", but I intentionally thought I'd do it with humor, CONVINCED someone would get my inside joke. I was wrong, they took it far too seriously. It was a Kentucky Derby Party and we were of course supposed to do the whole "hat thing". I went the Jimmy Buffet route with a hat adorned with foam stick on beach motif, a palm tree and seagulls out of the top... completely NOT society. It was not appreciated. Except by me.
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I ALWAYS eat with my fingers. But, bein's how I'm old... it never makes anyone truly uncomfortable, so much as just plain envious.  Solar...
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Gawd, I have yet to master this. I have a habit of getting into the most embarrassing of situations. Whats the difference between kinky and perverted? Kinky is when you tickle your girl friends ass with a feather. Perverted is when you use the whole chicken...
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This one time my fly was open. And it made everyone uncomfortable. And I blamed it on somebody else. And it made everyone even more uncomfortable. So now I step up and take the blame. And that makes everyone more comfortable. But I don't zip up. And that makes everyone more uncomfortable. It's so complicated, all this being considerate. Most people are other people... FUCKING CHARACTER LIMIT!!! ~Oscar Wilde
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