Is It Always N Behavior to Violate Others' Boundaries?

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Gotta agree.
I think the Annies' responses are so shallow and empty as to make most writers' pain worse.

What a gig. They barely move their lips half the time and half the time what they do say sounds like a faint, "Too bad..."

(Speaking of empathy-free...)

Hops

Thanks, Hops!

I think those of us, here, could do a BETTER job than these paid advice columnists!

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Today's "Dear Abby":

http://www.uexpress.com/dearabby/?uc_full_date=20120928

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Today's "Dear Margo" sounds familiar:

http://www.creators.com/advice/dear-margo/self-involvement-to-the-max.html

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just checking in....................

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I'm having a bit of a "senior" moment and trying to remember if I posted this before or not.  What prompted my thinking was a prior comment about "Karma being a bitch and paybacks are hell".  If I had already posted about this, please forgive the repetition.

As some of you may be aware, some years ago I was working in an addiction treatment facility until I was fired.  (Long story.)  Some county people did question me about what I saw and I answered their questions honestly.....even though it meant I was probably blackballed from ever working in the field again.  I also learned from other reliable sources that my replacement, a fully-certified counselor, had been caught RAPING a patient in the facility!     The idiots in charge attempted to keep this sex offender on staff claiming that because the patient has a history of addiction that she "deserved" what she got!     (What the hell happened to the Code of Ethics?!?!?)  The medical staff reported the situation to the county authorities and the administrative idiots were ordered to terminate the sex offender immediately.

Fast forward about six years......the county authorities apparently gathered enough evidence to SHUT DOWN the facility and FIRED everyone who had been involved in firing me.  Another drug treatment organization has taken over the buildings, renovated them, and has completely reorganized its operations.  I would say Instant Karma caught up with the administrative idiots and payback was hellacious!

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Today's "Dear Abby":

http://www.uexpress.com/dearabby/?uc_full_date=20120930

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Today's "Dear Abby": might generate some replies:

http://www.uexpress.com/dearabby/?uc_full_date=20121030

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Today's "Annie's Mailbox":

http://www.creators.com/advice/annies-mailbox/parsing-the-pecking-order.html

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In today's "Annie's Mailbox":

http://www.creators.com/advice/annies-mailbox/stonewalling-king-lear.html

The first letter writer sounds like an N!   

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Today's "Dear Abby":

http://www.uexpress.com/dearabby/?uc_full_date=20121003

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Just need to vent a little bit.

I've been watching TV shows from my childhood such as Dragnet, with Jack Webb, and Adam-12, with Kent McCord and Martin Milner.  Today's episode of Adam-12 centered around a rooftop sniper with a high-powered rifle. 

I found myself experiencing flashbacks to the terror that was experienced when the Beltway Sniper was killing at random.  The feelings were awful but it was good that I was able to immediately identify where those feelings were coming from and remind myself that the Sniper has been given his justice and will NEVER hurt anyone ever again!  I kept repeating the mantra:  "I am safe from the Beltway Sniper.  He is dead.  He can't hurt me."

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In today's "Annie's Mailbox":

http://www.creators.com/advice/annies-mailbox/stonewalling-king-lear.html

The first letter writer sounds like an N!   

In thinking about this letter from the other day....I can imagine what the old N-Idiot said that finally pushed his daughter over the edge.  N's are capable of that stupidity!

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Was kind of watching a case on the People's Court a little while ago while puttering with other stuff.  Caught the tail-end because Judge Milian's voice and attitude caught my attention.

Turns out that a plaintiff had dumped her belongings on the two defendants and tried to force them to be free storage in spite of the defendants' repeated requests to pick up her belongings.  After nearly THREE YEARS, the defendants got fed up and got rid of the stuff because, in the eyes of the law, it is abandoned property.  Plaintiff got all huffy and sued.  Judge Milian basically read the Riot Act to the plaintiff and told her that it was HER responsibility to get her belongings especially after this length of time had elapsed and that the defendants are not responsible to be free storage.  Judge Milian was NOT happy with the plaintiff and her attitude.

The case reminded me of what I was dealing with here.  If the N is dumb enough to sue me for getting rid of her abandoned junk after over THREE DECADES, I have a feeling the judge will read her the same Riot Act as well on the same grounds.

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In today's "Annie's Mailbox":

http://www.creators.com/advice/annies-mailbox/-quot-husband-substitute-quot-son-is-ultimate-mama-s-boy.html

I think the Clueless Ones REALLY MISSED the boat!!!!

There may not be OVERT incest going on but COVERT incest can and DOES exist! 

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In regards to today's "Dear Margo":

http://www.creators.com/advice/dear-margo/fair-is-fair.html

I think with Letter Number 1, Tough Love is in order.  Ignoring the Pink Elephant in the middle of the living room, taking a dump, doesn't do anyone any favors.

As for Letter Number 2, I've been in a situation where the kid was ABSOLUTELY OUT OF CONTROL and DESTRUCTIVE while the father just stood in one place and whined at the kid.  (This was during a camping trip and even the park ranger got involved with the mess this kid was doing because he was going around to other campsites and deliberately DESTROYING the property of TOTAL STRANGERS because HE thought it was FUN!  What did the father do about that?  Nothing except whined some more while the kid continued to get worse!)  The final straw came when I was in the middle of cooking dinner for the group over the campfire and the kid yanked out a burning stick and attempted to shove it into my face while laughing his ass off!  His father stood there and whined some more and made NO effort to walk over and take the burning stick out of the kid's hand!  Needless to say, I lost my temper, blew my stack, and stated EXACTLY what I thought of this whole mess that this wimp-father and his bratty-kid were doing!  The father got mad at me, announced to the whole group that HE was leaving and NEVER coming back!  (Personally, I was relieved that they left!)