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Skriven 2006-06-13 11:16:10 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Ardith Hinton
Ärende: Second Thoughts...  4.
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Ardith Hinton wrote James Bradley on 06-06-06 16:24

 AH> Hi yet again, James!  This is the last
 AH> installment of the current series:

AH!!! I'm out the door in twenty to eighty minutes, and I just read ahead. Now
I NEED to reply, and put my socks and shoes, brush my teeth, load up the
truck!!! !!! !!!<L>

 AH>           Thankyou....  :-)

De nada. ;-)


 AH>           Yup.  As a teacher & as a parent, I've
 AH> also been on both sides of the desk.  The
 AH> teacher has to consider the needs of many kids &
 AH> recognizes that the whole school can't be
 AH> organized around Mrs. Jones's little Billy.  The
 AH> parent's job, however, is to ensure the school
 AH> is meeting the needs of *their* kid(s)... and
 AH> although I'd rather work co- operatively with
 AH> the school, I'm prepared to go into Mother Bear
 AH> Mode if necessary.  The squeaky wheel gets the
 AH> grease....  ;-)

I wish it wasn't, as I'm usually easily intimidated. With the secretary that
wouldn't tell me the room to write my physics exam, I was as forceful as I
could be with her, but I didn't even *think* to go above her head, or if I did,
(It was a few years ago.) her refusal to get the principal, was enough of a
roadblock to back me down. Now, if I had been taught how to be an effective
'squeak', I'm sure I could have raised an appropriate ruckus, other than
starting her on fire.

I don't know what motivates these people, other than they must be repressed for
eighty percent of their lives. When they take the saddle of being in charge,
they glee with the ability to push others around. Like I say, I don't quite
know what category that would indicate, and I'm still quite baffled by the
type, just less likely to let them push me around.

I do exude an air of confidence when I walk in a room, but I am easily
befuddled when an a-hole feels the need to push me around. Maybe, I just enjoy
serenity, and am rather perplexed when others are not the same as I am. <?>


 JB>  I had to strap a box onto the "headache rack", and
 JB>  sure enough, after I had cinched it down to the rain
 JB>  channels, the noise came back. Until then, I was

 AH>           Sympathetic vibration... the same

Exactly! A harmonic, tuned to the right front suspension. When the rain channel
is not stressed, everything is hunky Dorie. When pressured, however...

 AH> effect you get when you use another percussion
 AH> instrument & your snare drum rattles! You

Oh, you're good! Stretch the skin a little more, or less, and it goes away.

 AH> recognized it because you are a musician.  The
 AH> average mechanic might easily miss the
 AH> connection, however ... which brings me to
 AH> another point.  We've used the same mechanic for
 AH> umpteen years now.  One of the reasons is that
 AH> when Dallas says the differential [e.g.] is
 AH> making a strange noise & he wants it looked at,
 AH> this guy pays attention.  He respects the
 AH> musician's ear even if he can't hear anything
 AH> out of the ordinary. The concept that "You know
 AH> about xxx, I know about yyy, so we can put our
 AH> heads together" is lost on many people.  But
 AH> that's how Dallas & I like to work.  :-)

I suspect a lot of a mechanics' job is reading their customer, as does a
medical doctor.


 AH>           We have two eyes, two ears, and one
 AH> mouth for a reason....  ;-)

Not everyone gets the math. <G>


 JB>  and the appliance guys/gals should likely posses
 JB>  enough experience that a cloths dryer isn't designed
 JB>  to work for an eight hour day without a load in it


 AH>           It seems obvious to me, but maybe it's
 AH> not so obvious to others. One of the problems
 AH> with being intuitive is distinguishing what's
 AH> obvious to others & what isn't.  I offer one
 AH> idea & they say "Duh, everybody knows that!"  I
 AH> keep quiet about another, thinking they already
 AH> know, and find they don't... (sigh).

There's a rub. You want to give the smart-a the benefit of the doubt, after
they have called you an idiot for not assuming they know nugget 'A', so 'B' is
assumed erroneously. Maybe that's why I hate know-it-alls. There's something
about them that I hate about myself. O-8*


 AH> [...]
 AH> different when you factor in the human
 AH> element....  :-)

If only the rest of the world was perfect too, eh? <LOL>


 JB>  That's where it gets interesting, doesn't it? I mean
 JB>  the interpersonal dynamics are a lot easier to understand,
 JB>  and I'm just scratching the surface.

 AH>           That's my take on it!  And now you've
 AH> got me scratching further below the surface than
 AH> I'd done before. Keep up the good work...
 AH> [chuckle].

De Nada! <L>

Now, what shoes should I wear? O-8*


... James
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