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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 08:46 PM
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2 things I really hate: being patronized and being interrupted.
If I have a question about the jurisdictional boundaries of the project, and the planner butts into what I'm saying with "You need to LOOK AT THE MAP," I'm not going to be happy with said planner.

Especially since said map does not show the jurisdictions accurately, and said planner is a moran who doesn't know her ass from a hole in the ground. A third of the time you ask her a question you'll get a totally patronizing non-response, a third of the time you get "I dunno," and a third of the time you get an answer in a totally patronizing tone that she totally retracts 5 minutes later.

Why is it that the most patronizing person is also the biggest moran?

It's one of life's little mysteries.
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Sugar Smack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 08:50 PM
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1. And NEVER an apology, am I right?
:rofl: I know I'm right.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 08:51 PM
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2. Duh... need you ask?
:eyes:





































:P
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 08:52 PM
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3. Welcome to the human race...yet ANOTHER reason why i'm so glad I
don't have to deal with either the general public or bureaucrats in my business.

I'm a lucky son af a bitch, indeed.

Redstone
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idgiehkt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 08:54 PM
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4. i hate when I get knocked off balance
and get all shakey inside (by being patronized)...that is the beginning of a meltdown for me. When this happens I need to shut myself up and so often I take the opposite approach and start 'nervous talking' which just makes it worse.
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Sugar Smack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 08:57 PM
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6. Hey listen, I know this sounds lame,
but practice the "stony stare" in the mirror. Really perfect it. When someone ever does this to me, I'm taken aback and have to remember what I just said, and it's like getting spanked sometimes. :D
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idgiehkt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 08:58 PM
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7. good idea
thanks.

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Gormy Cuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 08:55 PM
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5. Oh, I loved such encounters at my last job as long as
said moran wasn't in a position to get me fired. Some of my colleagues learned that I had a 'look' that meant I was about to make some one eat his #$%@hole after I trained the person to find it.

Now when the person could affect my employment it was VERY frustrating.
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 09:12 PM
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8. There, there, dear. It will be better in the morning.
:hide:
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 09:19 PM
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9. Is the document fairy going to write the report for me?
Oh please oh please oh please! :bounce:
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 09:30 PM
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12. Tuck three teeth under your pillow with an inkjet cartidge.
All will be well.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 11:34 PM
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19. Three of MY teeth
or three of hers? :D
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Sugar Smack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 09:20 PM
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10. You're not being patronizing, right?
:D
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NNadir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 09:24 PM
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11. I hate to interrupt, but I was going to say that.
But look, it's OK if you use my ideas before I do. You need it.
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 09:32 PM
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13. welcome to the world...
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Sugar Smack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 09:40 PM
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14. You bring out the Daffy Duck in me!!
*smack**smack**smack**smack**smack*:*
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 09:43 PM
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15. heehee, well you know...
:rofl:
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Sugar Smack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 09:46 PM
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16. It's raining kisses, Hallellujia!
:rofl: :applause:
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 09:49 PM
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17. wee goody!!!
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Sugar Smack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 09:56 PM
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18. You're better than CHEESE!
Whoa! :pals: :yourock:
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