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Marsha said:

Does anyone else find this hilarious?

http://tinyurl.com/9gfbh

Yeah. I do.

I can see the chapter in her memoirs - "The Great Catsup Conflagration..."

Pastorio

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Marsha said:

Does anyone else find this hilarious?

http://tinyurl.com/9gfbh

Marsha/Ohio

Only in England... ;-)
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Marsha wrote:
|| Does anyone else find this hilarious?
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|| http://tinyurl.com/9gfbh
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|| Marsha/Ohio

I don't get it. If the woman spilled ketchup on her boss's trousers, she
should have offered to pay his cleaning bill rather then be put out or
offended when he requested it. I don't understand why this is even
newsworthy. The woman has no common social graces.

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Quoted message said:

I don't get it. If the woman spilled ketchup on her boss's trousers, she
should have offered to pay his cleaning bill rather then be put out or
offended when he requested it. I don't understand why this is even
newsworthy. The woman has no common social graces.

Evidently he makes a lot of money and she makes very little. They didn't
say, but I suspect she may have spilled the ketchup while bringing his lunch
to him. I could see if she was throwing french fries in the cafeteria and
hit him she should pay, if she was doing him a favor by running his errands
then he should eat it, so to speak.

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Marengo said:

Marsha wrote:
|| Does anyone else find this hilarious?
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|| http://tinyurl.com/9gfbh
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|| Marsha/Ohio

I don't get it. If the woman spilled ketchup on her boss's trousers, she
should have offered to pay his cleaning bill rather then be put out or
offended when he requested it. I don't understand why this is even
newsworthy. The woman has no common social graces.

Perhaps, someone has no sense of humor, or common sense.

That's the difference between Americans and Brits. In US, from what
I've read, it looks like is general ettiquette to pay for dry cleaning
whenever you spilled stuff over other pple's clothes. Here in UK pple
would think -
(1) it's only 4 pounds, you can't even get 2 beers with 4 pounds, you
can hardly get 1 beer at hotels in London with 4 pounds;
(2) the lawyer makes so much more money than the woman, may be several
times more than the woman. The social convention in here (at least in
Scotland) is that the richer pay for the poorer. I have find it very
hard to get my colleagues to let me pay for beers, everytime they said
"but I earn so much more than you!!" push me away from the bar, ordered
for everybody and then paid for the beers. Other times they would time
their drinking so that whenever "poor, young" people offers to buy a
round of beers, they'd say "no no no I've still got mine". Once I took
a guest speaker, a full professor, out for dinner on university's
expenses and I had to plead him to let me buy him a whisky.
(3) some lawyers charge their clients loads of money by the hour and
here he spent his precious minutes writing that email and to ask for 4
pounds?
(4) Add to that the woman's mother had just died!

Marengo wrote:
:: Marsha wrote:
:::: Does anyone else find this hilarious?
::::
:::: http://tinyurl.com/9gfbh
::::
:::: Marsha/Ohio
::
:: I don't get it. If the woman spilled ketchup on her boss's
:: trousers, she should have offered to pay his cleaning bill rather
:: then be put out or offended when he requested it. I don't
:: understand why this is even newsworthy. The woman has no common
:: social graces.

This is a surprising post my you, Peter. If you read the article, you
should note several things:

1) it was an accident,
2) the lawyer is highly paid,
3) the secretary mother had just died and she had to attend the services,
etc.
4) the lawyer is emailing her (on work computers and time) about 4 pounds.
5) the woman paid the money

Exactly who it is that lacks social graces? Personally, I wouldn't press
anyone in that situation about a measely $8 dry-cleaning bill. In fact, I'd
just let the entire situation pass as it was an ACCIDENT. Accidents do
happen, peter.

No, it's not. Peter is a French idiot.

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That's the difference between Americans and Brits.

Wow, you take away his american citizenship becoz of his comments?

Learn how to quote properly.

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Wow, you take away his american citizenship becoz of his comments?

I'm posting from google. Workplace newsreader down. Bear with me for
the time being.

I guess so. As long as you're not French.

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I'm posting from google. Workplace newsreader down. Bear with me for
the time being.

where is your approved country list?

hmmm I am part french.. can you tell?

Tori

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Do you know the difference between country and nationality?

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where is your approved country list?

Marengo said:

Marsha wrote:
|| Does anyone else find this hilarious?
||
|| http://tinyurl.com/9gfbh
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|| Marsha/Ohio

I don't get it. If the woman spilled ketchup on her boss's trousers, she
should have offered to pay his cleaning bill rather then be put out or
offended when he requested it. I don't understand why this is even
newsworthy. The woman has no common social graces.

Peter,
We don't know that she didn't offer. The article
does say that her mother just died and she had
just returned to work. I would think that takes
precedence over a small drycleaning bill for a
senior partner in a law firm. Not only that, but
if his pants are dryclean only, he would have had
to take them in anyway, even if she hadn't spilled
ketchup on them.

Marsha/Ohio

Pretty much.

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hmmm I am part french.. can you tell?

Tori

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Xavier 10/04 "Hey mommy I can reach the middle of the coffee table if I
stand right here"
Bonnie 3/02 "No Xayur thats my blankie"
349.5/321/135
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Do you know the difference between country and nationality?

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"A_M" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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where is your approved country list?

hey but you sure mixed up nationality and origin! there! I win!!!!

hahahahahahaha!!!!

JC Der Koenig said:

Do you know the difference between country and nationality?

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"A_M" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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where is your approved country list?

Uh.... No.

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hey but you sure mixed up nationality and origin! there! I win!!!!

hahahahahahaha!!!!

JC Der Koenig said:

Do you know the difference between country and nationality?

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"A_M" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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where is your approved country list?

No what? You mean peter has a French passport? This I wouldn't know.

JC Der Koenig said:

Uh.... No.

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"A_M" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

hey but you sure mixed up nationality and origin! there! I win!!!!

hahahahahahaha!!!!

JC Der Koenig said:

Do you know the difference between country and nationality?

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"A_M" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> where is your approved country list?
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