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Ditched Part Deux
RECEIVED Wed., Oct. 19, 2022
Dear Editor,
Totally missed the mark on this one. [“Luv Doc: Getting Ditched,” Oct. 14]
The person who did the ditching was the co-worker who invited and cajoled their bud into going to a party with her and then not bothering to keep an eye out or go looking for the friend who knew no one and didn't especially want to go to the party but relented.
She knew everyone there, and since she bugged OP [original poster] until they agreed to accompany her, she had the responsibility, if not even cool enough to keep track of the outsider she brought, she absolutely owed them the responsibility to check & reply to texts. If for no other reason, and there were, but she owed the person hosting the party the duty to keep up with her guest when she's been busy to check and make sure they didn't decide they couldn't wait, go sneak in the master bathroom and then stop to look in their underwear drawer, jewelry chest or medicine cabinet and help themselves. Or get diarrhea and there's no TP bc so many people already used the bathroom before them! (Which checking text could've helped, though IDK why they didn't just call her phone for that matter.)
I think the guest was justifiably irked and deserves the apology.
I don't always agree with you, and some of your tangents are a real stretch and not particularly relevant or amusing; but I've never disagreed so much as to email you about it. Until today.
The person who knew mostly everyone at the party and pestered friend 'til they agreed owed her friend the courtesy of making sure they knew where she had gotten off to and text replies at a minimum. Once she saw all her unanswered texts she should have realized this, and sounds pretty self absorbed, and should probably make a move to smooth it over before she needs something from her buddy, which she probably will eventually. The fact that they didn't readily agree to established this and is the tie-breaker at the very least.
Totally missed the mark on this one. [“Luv Doc: Getting Ditched,” Oct. 14]
The person who did the ditching was the co-worker who invited and cajoled their bud into going to a party with her and then not bothering to keep an eye out or go looking for the friend who knew no one and didn't especially want to go to the party but relented.
She knew everyone there, and since she bugged OP [original poster] until they agreed to accompany her, she had the responsibility, if not even cool enough to keep track of the outsider she brought, she absolutely owed them the responsibility to check & reply to texts. If for no other reason, and there were, but she owed the person hosting the party the duty to keep up with her guest when she's been busy to check and make sure they didn't decide they couldn't wait, go sneak in the master bathroom and then stop to look in their underwear drawer, jewelry chest or medicine cabinet and help themselves. Or get diarrhea and there's no TP bc so many people already used the bathroom before them! (Which checking text could've helped, though IDK why they didn't just call her phone for that matter.)
I think the guest was justifiably irked and deserves the apology.
I don't always agree with you, and some of your tangents are a real stretch and not particularly relevant or amusing; but I've never disagreed so much as to email you about it. Until today.
The person who knew mostly everyone at the party and pestered friend 'til they agreed owed her friend the courtesy of making sure they knew where she had gotten off to and text replies at a minimum. Once she saw all her unanswered texts she should have realized this, and sounds pretty self absorbed, and should probably make a move to smooth it over before she needs something from her buddy, which she probably will eventually. The fact that they didn't readily agree to established this and is the tie-breaker at the very least.
Renée Elkins
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Football Faux Pas
RECEIVED Wed., Oct. 19, 2022
Dear Editor,
Sunday professional football has become a certified menace to society despite its efforts to appear patriotic.
The NFL has been airing TV ads featuring a prominent player soberly opining, “There’s one day more important than Sunday … that’s Election Day.”
The player, of course, is not referring to Sunday as the day for family church, or for individual health, education, or community activism, but Sunday as a day when American men and boys sit on their butts for 3-6 hours (yup, doubleheader games) while the nation, families, and communities rot without their presence or attention.
This is the big chief NFL throwing little dog democracy a bone. After you men make sure to watch us every week ’til your marriage blows up and your kids starve, then go out and do your patriotic duty like the league is telling you to do.
Color me unimpressed.
Sunday professional football has become a certified menace to society despite its efforts to appear patriotic.
The NFL has been airing TV ads featuring a prominent player soberly opining, “There’s one day more important than Sunday … that’s Election Day.”
The player, of course, is not referring to Sunday as the day for family church, or for individual health, education, or community activism, but Sunday as a day when American men and boys sit on their butts for 3-6 hours (yup, doubleheader games) while the nation, families, and communities rot without their presence or attention.
This is the big chief NFL throwing little dog democracy a bone. After you men make sure to watch us every week ’til your marriage blows up and your kids starve, then go out and do your patriotic duty like the league is telling you to do.
Color me unimpressed.
Kimball Shinkoskey
