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Skriven 2010-07-16 17:59:00 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: CRUISE CONTROL 403
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->  -> When I stay at my (now former) conductor's, sometimes the phone
->  -> rings, and I monitor the answering machine (once in a blue moon
->  -> the call is for me, but more often it's someone like Jackie).
->  RH> In this house 90+ percent of the time it's for my mother.  I never
->  RH> learned to talk on the phone like that.
-> 
-> I'm not fond of it, but when I have to do it it's not as
-> bad as I'm afraid it is.
-> 
...but as a guy, you probably generally get on and get the information
across and hang up.  Women from a certain era sit there and talk for an
hour before the reason for the call ever makes its way into the
conversation.

->  -> who was at the time on the prowl, and I almost took her up on
->  -> it (would have ruined my life for sure) but ended up taking
->  -> the conductor's living-room couch, a better choice.
->  RH> A lucky escape.  
-> 
-> Lilli pointed out to me that (after the orchestra party had
-> been moved from July 4 to July 3 and directly conflicting with
-> my recital and the orchestra afterparty had been moved from
-> the Beer Works where my retirement party was to a competitor's
-> place, both apparently administrative decisions) I was a lucky
-> man, as who knows what evil lurks in the heart of Jackie. But

Aren't you a little young to be quoting old Shadow radio shows?  Or maybe
not, since I'm even younger and knew the reference.

-> the chatty Cathy (not her real name) was good-hearted, buxom,
-> white blonde, and apparently very passionate and might have
-> been fun for a while just so long as I remembered my earplugs.
-> 
Or she remembered hers.... (ducking)  

->  -> Because in Europe and suchlike places, all marinated cold
->  -> things are called salad.
->  RH> But this was Japanese, although they may have picked it up off the
->  RH> Dutch. 
-> 
-> Didn't I say something about this before? Something about the
-> terminology not being Japanese but of European origin.

Yep - and it's what I meant in the first place.
 
->  RH> The one in Alaska with the grandbaby?  Aren't you off Alaskan women
->  RH> still?
-> 
-> They're a little rich for my purse.

I figured.  The air fare alone would kill you.
 
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