TM Topic 130: Loyalty

[lureen_n_twist]

My daddy taught me that one of the most important things about runnin' a business is loyalty. You gotta be loyal to your customers so they trust you, you gotta get the customers ta be loyal to you in return so you ca get their business, and, above all, you gotta be loyal to your business and the people that work for it. You gotta be loyal to your

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[trascendenza]

Why does this make me think about Lureen being loyal to Jack and how he's not loyal to her? :-/

I'm such an angst-a-holic.

I'm a little surprised L.D. would say that. Well, rather--that he'd mean it. Seems like something he'd say but not necessarily practice. Or maybe he is one of those "men of honor."

Well, sheee-it, now you got me re-evaluatin' my whole opinion of L.D., girl. ;)

[lureen_n_twist]

ooc: My Lureen has never cheated on Jack. She's tried to on several occasions, but always gets eaten up by guilt before succeeding.

I think LD was a fat, white WASP Texas business man, pride, loyalty, integrity, the American Way, and the dirty commmies and the dirty hippies that ought to move to Russia, too, but he probably gave big, fat Christmas bonuses and pretending to like a lot of people he didn't. He even pretends to be nice to Jack on occasion. I'm not sure there's much more to him than what I've just said, though. I don't think he's a very deep character. Almost just a stereotype. George W.

[trascendenza]

That was the feeling I got from your characterization. In an earlier story I wrote I had Lureen cheating on Jack, but I'm not sure if I could write it anymore... my perspectives on her have shifted a bit since then. Probably in a large part due to you :)

Yeah, he's a tough nut to crack, or rather, there's very little nut inside the shell. I think my portrait for him is going to be the least sympathetic of the bunch because I just can't find much depth there.

[lureen_n_twist]

ooc: and ot, in fact. On the topic of cheating. jack_fing_twist, quietcowboy and I are a member of hearts_andminds where we're all trapped in a town together (circa 1967 in BBM years), and Lureen has been flirting like mad, but that's just her way. She came home one afternoon tried and dirty to sex noises from her hotel room. She collapsed onto the floor from exhaustion, mascara all over her face. That experience is definitely going to change her ideas on cheating in that universe. I don't think she realized how much it hurt to be the one outside the door *huggles Lureen*

But in reality Lureen is too career-driven to have time or energy for a prolonged affair. I wouldn't be surprised if she'd had a fun drunken night away at a conference, but nothing that meant anything, for sure.

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