-=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 10-11-06  04:59 <=-

 MK> Not really but often it did lean heavily towards 'pull the wool over
 MK> dad's eyes' since he probably doesn't really understand the woman
 MK> experience.  If I ever pushed it I usually would end up regretting it
 MK> as they would probably explain it to me in an attempt to embaress me. 
 MK> Mind you that might be interpretted as disrespectful but I doubt it
 MK> ever really was.  Maybe.  Anyhow I could have always resorted to
 MK> embarressing them right back if I really wanted to.  

Ah.  They probably wouldn't have admitted to being overtly disrespectful
anyway... :)  You probably knew more about the woman experience than
they were giving you credit for, as well... if you'd paid any attention
at all to the "wife stuff" or to the "mother stuff"...
  Or had a
sister you were close to, for that matter... :)

 MK> Always keep an extra ace up one's sleeve eh?
 
But of course!  :)  It also helps to be reasonably bilingual in
male/female languages...    Hubby tends to be pretty fluent in
female, as he was raised by his mom after his dad died.  He was only 9,
his brother was 12...  and Mom was fairly open with them both, possibly
even as much as she might have been had she had daughters instead.  And
I tend to be fairly fluent in male, having been "one of the guys" all
through college (6 years worth).  It really has come in handy when the
two of us have done some couple counseling together... 

 MK> He'll be back too.  They live in town and use their place here as a
 MK> get-away.  Everytime they are here the kid shows up at the door
 MK> eventually. 

:)  When we've been at our camp, back in the days when the kid was
younger and with us and all, he used to make the rounds of his favorite
people up there.  Sometimes even in the mornings before we were up... :)
They could always tell when we were in, when he came a-calling... 

 MK> Me too ... when I care to look back that is.  I definetly wasn't a
 MK> saint by any stretch of the imagination.  Seems hard to believe
 MK> doesn't it? 

I think most of us sowed at least some wild oats... and made poor
choices...  Hopefully we learned from it all, though...  

ttyl        neb

... Sow your oats on Saturday night And on Sunday pray for crop failure.

___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20

--- ViaMAIL!/WC v1.60d