Attack!

[elisabethx]

When I was in college, I worked at Kinderfoto. It was a job rife with challenges: how hard is just hard enough to blow in a baby’s face to make it smile? Once you’ve made it smile, how fast can you nip back behind the camera, to make sure it’s focused and take the picture, without tripping over the tripod legs? When the family returns to view the

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[eluper]

First of all, your companion should be flogged. It was LOW to abandon you at the Booth of Doom.

Second, I am getting better at just turning around and walking away. What happens is that instead of listening to them, I simply run through all my options and their potential outcomes in my mind.

Invariably, I settle upon the following argument: Why should I stand here and make my life worse just so this annoying and insensitive person might perceive his or her life to be better?

Then I turn around and walk away.

Rude? Perhaps. But it's far ruder to impose upon someone's sense of civility to try and coerce them read your crappy book(s).

[elisabethx]

I know what you mean--I actually said to Companion, "Man... I am just too polite!" (And, in all fairness... perhaps I had not been completely ABANDONED... perhaps face-to-face with the Lunger, it just felt that way. :) )

[eluper]

Perhaps you should make it habit to walk around with that plant in your LJ photo in front of you. Then, when confronted with a Lunger, you can keep moving along like you're totally comouflaged.

[elisabethx]

Maybe I'll take a new picture, first. With a cactus.

[elisabethx]

Yes! Plus--fish are just so slippery, I don't think I could manage to do ANYthing to them with my bare hands. :)

[elisabethx]

Holy moley--I DID forget Marge's philosophy.

Now tell me true, brother mine--wouldn't the world be a happier place if we all subscribed to a little more of MargeSimpsonosophy?