Hi, James!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

JB>  [re deep breathing]
JB>  Us drummers know nothing about that, except how good
JB>  the French horn cuties look doin' it. 


            Sheesh.  :-))



JB>  (Remember: Proximity to the percussion section weighs
JB>  heavily on our sight line.)


            Lucky you!  Clarinet players are often seated directly in front
of trumpet or alto sax players who get their kicks by playing
fortissimo....  ;-)



AH>  Sometimes people on the verge of change kick & scream
AH>  quite vigorously about it....  :-))

JB>  I was a student too, so I let the class sus (SP?) its
JB>  own level before I opened my mouth.


            Makes sense to me....  :-)



JB>  (Rocking the boat? |-)


            Probably.  I'd expect nothing less from you... [chuckle].



JB>  I was thinking at the time, that this boisterous gal
JB>  wanted to discredit what she couldn't understand, and
JB>  wanted the comfort in communal ignorance.


            Uh-huh.  I think that's very common....  :-)



JB>  "Head in the sand" seems to work for some though, just
JB>   don't expect me to explain it.


            It's a form of denial.  When they're ready they'll progress to
the next stage.  All of us have to learn our lessons on our own
timetable....  :-)



JB>  Like when a person professes to know *nothing* about
JB>  computers, they all seem to know how to plug them into
JB>  the wall and find the power switch.


            Good description!  Maybe it's black-and-white thinking... which
is difficult for me to relate to sometimes.  Or maybe they think if they
admit to knowing *anything* you'll want to stretch them beyond their
comfort zone.  :-)



JB>  I too have to realize my limits. When a specialist was
JB>  explaining the bursas to me and once the Latin started
JB>  flying, I had to stop her with, "Too much information."


            I'm glad you can acknowledge that & communicate it to other
folks. Even for an experienced teacher it's not always easy to hit the
right level... and doctors often seem to forget or don't know how to change
mental gears when they're required to explain various things to those of us
who have not been to medical school.  I had some fun with our former GP
years ago, when the ink was still drying on his certificate.  He explained
to me very seriously that I had gastroenteritis (apparently not realizing I
know a bit of Latin too).  With an air of wide-eyed innocence, I said
"Oh... you mean stomach flu!"  He was quite taken aback at first,
but he learned to speak to us in plain English....  :-))




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