I am back from the post office. Two of you are expecting packages and one of you doesn't know it yet. Mwah ha ha ha!
Hey! What a surprise! Hostile 17! Can I get you a drink, Hostile 17?
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Laga - Feb 24, 2009 2:31:31 pm PST #1917 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
brenda m - Feb 24, 2009 2:34:04 pm PST #1918 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Hey, you tried to be a grown-up and take more responsibility when you applied for that other position.
erikaj - Feb 24, 2009 2:35:23 pm PST #1919 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Honestly, I'd LOVE it if there were tons of movies/shows like that. Because I'd love the writing work and because(and I hope this doesn't make me sound like a small-b bitch) I get tired of being a Teachable Moment About Difficult Topics when I go where kids are. Not that I *mind*, but it's not new or miraculous to me like it is for you and your kid. ETA: It sounds like Cash's co-worker has contagion anxiety occasioned by the stump...I try to be understanding because it's subconcious mostly. But it's hard to understand for someone like me.
Connie Neil - Feb 24, 2009 2:37:09 pm PST #1920 of 30000
brillig
Hey, you tried to be a grown-up and take more responsibility when you applied for that other position.
Right. I wonder if they ever filled that.
I get tired of being a Teachable Moment About Difficult Topics when I go where kids are.
You need a t-shirt: Not a bloody Afterschool Special.
§ ita § - Feb 24, 2009 2:37:15 pm PST #1921 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Granted, the properly evolved human wouldn't blink an eye, but I figure I'd be either trying too hard to pretend everything was normal or shamefully flinching.
Practice makes perfect, and that co-worker isn't always going to be able to run. When she can't it's going to be a more uncomfortable situation, perhaps for all concerned.
Laga - Feb 24, 2009 2:43:32 pm PST #1922 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
When I was growing up I had a friend whose dad's arm was deformed. I tried really hard not to stare at it but sometimes I did without realizing it. If he noticed he never said anything. He was a very cool dad.
erikaj - Feb 24, 2009 2:46:22 pm PST #1923 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah, I know! I mean, sometimes it feels good, even though it is an extra responsibility, but sometimes I feel like a certain kind of parent sees me and says "There's one!" and crosses me off, next to Pet Death. Acknowledging contagion anxiety is not the same thing as it being okay to indulge it.
§ ita § - Feb 24, 2009 2:47:45 pm PST #1924 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My best friend when I was little had one leg amputated below the knee. I never found out why. I wanted to be handicapped like him. I think my parents handled it fairly well.
sj - Feb 24, 2009 3:10:35 pm PST #1925 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Erika, I'm totally with you on not wanting to have to be the one to teach someone else's kids about disability. The worst are when parents come up to you with their kids and ask me to explain my disability to them. It hasn't happened in a while, thank goodness.
Hil R. - Feb 24, 2009 3:17:44 pm PST #1926 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
The worst are when parents come up to you with their kids and ask me to explain my disability to them.
What? People actually do that? That's ... remarkably rude.