Is It Always N Behavior to Violate Others' Boundaries?

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(we all need a mister green from time to time, eh? )

[BonesMS]

(we all need a mister green from time to time, eh? )

True that!

I've been working on my genealogy off and on today and just found out a little while ago that my parents were distant cousins to each other and NEVER knew it!!!!!  My jaw was on the floor as I was reading this new information!  The link goes way back to the 1700's in Maryland.

Bones

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[BonesMS]

Just checking in.

[BonesMS]

Feeling a bit annoyed at the moment.

I had to go to the dentist this morning to follow up on the extraction that was done about six months ago and discuss the next stage of treatment.  While I was waiting, I was working on my sock loom to keep me occupied and not freak out too much.  (Hanging out in a dentist office is NOT my idea of fun!)  One of the dentist's staff saw me working on the sock and wanted me to give it to her when I was done.  I thought she was just joking and I laughed it off and kept working.  When I was scheduling my next appointment, this staff person repeated her demand and that's when I knew she was NOT joking!     I responded that I needed to calculate the cost of the yarn plus the labor to determine how much I would need to charge her for my work.  THAT shut her up!!!

Bones

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[Hopalong]

Pretty literal, eh Bones?
People sometimes don't realize how others will receive something.

Granted she was presumptuous...maybe there was a compliment and admiration buried in that exchange too?

xo
Hops

[BonesMS]

Pretty literal, eh Bones?
People sometimes don't realize how others will receive something.

Granted she was presumptuous...maybe there was a compliment and admiration buried in that exchange too?

xo
Hops

It may have been meant as a compliment but demands like that get tiresome, especially after several different people make the same kind of demand over a period of 40 years!   

Bones

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I know it may be my Asperger's getting in the way and, at the same time, when I've heard the same old "joke" repeated several times over a period of 40 to 60 years, it does get tiresome...especially when the "joke teller" thinks I've NEVER heard the joke before and that THEY are the FIRST to tell me this "joke".   

Bones

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[sKePTiKal]

Oh yeah, Bones...

like at my age, I've never heard the "amber waves of grain" joke...
I'm afraid I have perfected a sort of "withering" cold stare that lets them know I don't see the humor in this kind of thing.

Maybe we're allowed some days like this - days when we just don't see the humor in the trite... and that's OK. As long as, once in a while at least, we do see some humor in these kinds of things... it's just people trying to connect with us - one on one - I think.

My sense of humor is my canary in the coal mine - when nothing makes me laugh, or people start apologizing for trying to make me laugh... that's when I know I have "go deal" - get it over with - and let it go.

I haven't laughed for a week.... really just found something funny, you know?

[BonesMS]

Oh yeah, Bones...

like at my age, I've never heard the "amber waves of grain" joke...
I'm afraid I have perfected a sort of "withering" cold stare that lets them know I don't see the humor in this kind of thing.

Maybe we're allowed some days like this - days when we just don't see the humor in the trite... and that's OK. As long as, once in a while at least, we do see some humor in these kinds of things... it's just people trying to connect with us - one on one - I think.

My sense of humor is my canary in the coal mine - when nothing makes me laugh, or people start apologizing for trying to make me laugh... that's when I know I have "go deal" - get it over with - and let it go.

I haven't laughed for a week.... really just found something funny, you know?

I get it.  For me, it depends on the situation.  If it's related to Star Trek, I can geek out and talk all day about that.  But when a total stranger gets up in my grill, either making fun of my name based on a historical event, or religion, or a TV show that was on over 60 years ago, or make an outrageously sexist comment, or DEMANDS that I hand over my work for free, at my age, I no longer have the patience to tolerate that anymore.  I will give them the withering, cold stare at first.  If that doesn't work, then I will make an assertive statement.  If they are so DENSE that the statement goes right over their head and they keep on trucking, then I will usually hand their head to them.  I'm probably considered a curmudgeon by now.  I just don't suffer fools anymore.

Bones

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[BonesMS]

Letter Number Two sounds VERY familiar!

http://www.creators.com/advice/annies-mailbox/drop-quot-sweet-as-pie-quot-like-a-hot-potato.html

[BonesMS]

Woke up from a very strange dream!

I dreamt that I had adopted a baby with multiple disabilities, including autism, and I had become separated from her and she was in danger.  I kept trying to get to her while others around me kept blocking my path...telling me to forget about her and get rid of her because she was a worthless pile of $**t!  I got so upset that I woke up!

Bones