Just you wait, Doug. Have a nice day dust-bitten, no one missing you already any longer.
Bill
> On 29 May 2014, at 1:34 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Must be an Oz thing, Bill. Never heard anything like that here...
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> Doug
>> On May 28, 2014, at 1:32 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Thanks, Max, Pat. That's the thing. I struggle to remember too, Max, whether I have any plans or not. The first time, I felt quite unmanned.
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>> Cheers,
>> Bill
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>>> On 28 May 2014, at 9:59 am, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> Bill, you nail much of this recurring situation and the thoughts prompted.
>>>
>>> When I ask the youngish ones about themselves,
>>> they tend to say they are students with assignments
>>> falling due.
>>>
>>> Did you have a good weekend?
>>> is another standby.
>>> My first response is
>>> I don’t remember.
>>>
>>> I do recall a parent-child standard exchange
>>> (maybe it was the title of a book)
>>> Where did you go?
>>> Out.
>>> What did you do?
>>> Nothing.
>>>
>>> Max
>>>
>>>> On 28 May 2014, at 7:50 am, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>>> Have you got any plans?
>>>>
>>>> It's the new intrusion
>>>> at the checkout.
>>>>
>>>> Well, do you?
>>>> No casual enquiry
>>>>
>>>> this conversational prompt.
>>>> A management directive?
>>>>
>>>> Whether you admit
>>>> you don't or say you do,
>>>>
>>>> the polite follow-up
>>>> would surely be Do you?
>>>>
>>>> Flirting, supermarket style
>>>> to the accompaniment
>>>>
>>>> of coin jingle, bar code
>>>> blip, wallet flourish.
>>>>
>>>> Then again, if tied
>>>> to the till, anyone
>>>>
>>>> with trolley and time
>>>> must seem free.
>>>>
>>>> Or, hang on a second,
>>>> has the checkout chick
>>>>
>>>> exposed a yawning?
>>>> Just what in hell
>>>>
>>>> are your intentions
>>>> on this blue planet?
>>>>
>>>> bw
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