| Title: | Topics of Interest to Women |
| Notice: | V3 is closed. TURRIS::WOMANNOTES-V5 is open. |
| Moderator: | REGENT::BROOMHEAD |
| Created: | Thu Jan 30 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 30 1995 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1078 |
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Just a story I remember just now.
Some months ago my father saw a car standing in front of his
car. While chatting with some people not far away from his
apartment he recognized that the distance between the two
cars was not too much, also realizing the car driver was
trying very hard to leave.
So (having fear his car could be hurt by an unexperienced
car driver) he went to the car and told the woman to give
him the key, he will help her to leave.
First she didn't want (my father loves situations where
he can play someone being very nice and helpful, but
the main reason is he l o v e s it to show other
people that he can do everything better than others)
him to give the key. But then, when he convinced her
he entered the car, didn't go back but straight on
and nearly hit the car in front of him !!!
The car owner was very embarrased, of course, and I was
standing beside laughing like I never laughed before in
my life.
Imagine some other stories, where people think they are
"Muhamad Ali" and at the end of the story they are
just fools ???
Carina-laughing-even-some-months-later :)
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| 402.1 | DUGGAN::MAHONEY | Tue Sep 25 1990 11:27 | 12 | ||
It would have been so much nicer to move his OWN car instead... dont
you think?
I think that the laugh of his own daughter, making fun of him right in
his face did hurt him for a loooong time.
He probably took it nonchalantly, in a funny, easygoing way, but deep
inside must have hurt, it was great you could BOTH laugh about it
together....
(if that had happened to ME, I would not have laughed at my father...
because he would have not moved the lady's car, but his own, that was
in front of the lady's, anyway!)
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| 402.2 | Back away - I'm here to rescue you. | CUPMK::DROWNS | this has been a recording | Tue Sep 25 1990 11:53 | 5 |
I agree with .1 - why didn't he move his own car?
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| 402.3 | "No, no, let _me_ make a mess of this situation!" | GNUVAX::QUIRIY | Christine | Wed Sep 26 1990 00:13 | 10 |
I can't answer for Carina, but from her story, my guess is that he
didn't move his car because he wanted to prove to whomever (himself,
included) that he could do the job that the other person couldn't do.
I know I've been guilty of this myself (thinking I could do something
that someone else couldn't) but I'll be darned if I can think of an
example right now. :-)
CQ
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