Re: Plot Resolution: The Lady or the Tiger

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:40:26 GMT, djheydt@xxxxxxxxxxx (Dorothy J
Heydt) wrote:

>In article <7t30q19l331enjdrn58rg06brcr4q23es6@xxxxxxx>,
>R. L. <see-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>Well, 'upper classes do not work' is clear enough. What surprised me was
>>that a minor government clerk wouldn't be considered 'working' already. And
>>that toward the end of the story, she'd have any status left to lose, by
>>going from being a coarse loud woman of the people, to being a rich
>>well-groomed relaxed proprietor of the best sort of jewelry shop. Tho come
>>to think of it, I can remember it being a little bit awkward when someone I
>>knew (in church, say) owned a retail store ... I'd try to shop there when
>>she wasn't in.
>
>??? Why on earth? Unless you didn't like her, and put up with
>her acquaintance in church because you had to, but disdained to
>see her any time you could avoid it? If I had a *friend* working
>retail (I once had a daughter working retail, but she's moved
>on*), as distinguished from an enemy, I'd shop there when I knew
>she would be there, so I could say hello.
>
>_______
>*Sort of. She's now doing tech support, meaning she still has to
>be polite to idiots, but at least they can't see her so she can
>make faces at them.
>
>http://www.queenofwands.net/d/20051108.html
>http://www.queenofwands.net/d/20051109.html
>http://www.queenofwands.net/d/20051110.html
>
>(Meg says she has had all of those and more.)

Some people feel obligated to buy when they know the proprietor.

--
Marilee J. Layman
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