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:
>>/snip/
>>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?

Well, it was when I was in high school (class of 62) and I liked her fine;
she was sort of a 'youth worker' at church, you know the sort, glamorous
and apparently high-status, to reassure girls that religion and glamor
could go together.... So outside her business I was in a position of
looking up to her for approval, as a role-model, a mentor.... But during
shopping, her manner shifted. Suddenly she wasn't acting quite the same,
she was being in a lower position, offering wares for my approval.... It
made me feel strange. What other people on this thread are saying about a
merchant being a 'servant' reminded me of that feeling. (Of course looking
back now, I'd say she was being ethical: careful to step out of the
personal relationship so as not to influence me unduly.)


>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.

Me too, now. But come to think of it, now, unless I know we'll get into a
good critical tech discussion about the merchandise, I'd tend to rather buy
from a stranger; with a friend, for me to ask too many questions, or reject
an item, would feel a little rude....


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