Re: Juries and accidents (Re: teaching little boys ..)

on 13 Dec 2005 16:49:08 -0500, Penelope Periwinkle stated:
>
>On 8 Dec 2005 23:55:23 -0500, Allison Turner- <betonica@xxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>
>>I suspect that no matter what I say, we're both going
>>to continue to view the other person as being melodramatic
>>and inflammatory, and view ourselves as being reasonable.
>>That seems to be what's happening, anyway.
>
>I started to answer this, and I realized how often I was responding my
>simply saying "Only, that's not what I said."

Ah. Ok.


>I'm wildly
>melodramatic, pouty, disingenuous, bitchy, whiney, raging, cold,
>annoying, prickly, unempathetic, ungenial, puerile, asinine, fatuous,
>sulky, snide, or down right snarky at times. Once or twice, I might
>have even been wrong, but I have my doubts about that.

*Laugh*

Thank you for the perspective. I still don't think I'm
very good at 'pouty,' but if it gets me in some tiny way
to emulate that very impressive list of yours, I will
now consider it a step in the right direction.


>My original post wasn't intended to be insulting, it was a statement
>of my experience in trying to have discussions with you in which you
>ask for input on your behaviors or philosophies or ethics, and an
>explanation of why I had not addressed that in my earlier post to you.

Ok. I guess I will have to work on changing my
perspective or responses or both. I'm not sure that
I'll recognize the next situation before it's passed
right by me, but I'll try.


>I'm sorry if I was too brusque for you. I'm annoyed that you escalated
>that statement into some sort of attack, and even more irritated with
>myself that I let you.

My apologies. I didn't see myself as escalating your
statement into some sort of attack, of course, but
thought that it was one to start with. Need to work
on my reading of tone, clearly.


-Allison

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