==> A hush fell over the room when Ed Kasky said to Harriet Levy <== 
 EK> Harriet wrote to Billy and Ed jumped in . . .
 
 HL> I still find myself going "to the hardware store for milk".  And 
 HL> am repeatedly disappointed to find out they don't have, can't give
 HL> me, what I need.  I *still* want to find it there.  A lack of
 HL> acceptance, perhaps?  
 EK> ROTFLMAO!!!  Makes sense to me.  I keep looking for the chocolate
 EK> milk. . .  For me it's a combination of lack of acceptance and a
 EK> desire to tell the world how to behave.  I'm getting better though. 
 EK> I no longer try to play Highway Patrol with those folks who don't
 EK> know how to drive ;-)
Ah...yes.  Wanting the world to work *my* way.  I've been justifying 
all of this by saying, "well they *said* that's what they were doing"
when, in reality, they weren't.  I'm getting to a place where I'm 
more willing to let them be themselves, and get what I need elsewhere.
 
 EK> FWIW, I moved 3,000 miles partly to get away from that same exact
 EK> situation.  So given that, I try to be the best son, etc. I can
 EK> given the difference in lifestyles.  I call, I send cards, they come
 EK> out to visit and we go back there occasionally.  I live my life but 
 EK> not around their expectations of me.
Yeah, and I'm thinking about moving, in the next couple of years.  Possibly
to a landlocked state (horrors), but I have friends there, and I might,
possibly, be able to deal with it not being NYC ;-)
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