[Beep]

ROFL! Now, THAT was funny! I wasn't upset with Linda; it's just that those jokes are so old and tired now. How long have they been around?? Twenty years?? Your daughter has to be younger than that! I'm sure many are new to her. Some were funny, once upon a time. They just got old to me. The whole concept got old.

The problem came when someone I don't even know jumped on me when I was explaining things to Linda and my pals, and I didn't appreciate it one bit. I let him know it, too. He thinks my expressed remorse for responding badly to Linda's post should have extended to him as well, which it did not. He is one who is more concerned with looking "correct" than with being human. IMHO, I consider this person neither.

It wasn't really about someone pulling a blonde joke on me, but it was about someone having no sense of decency. Blonde jokes, to me, are just an idea that has become old and tired. Constant poking and joking about being dumb because one is blonde is irritating. I've put up with it for 20 years, and I'm tired of it. It's that simple. Some people don't know when something ceases to be funny, or never was funny to begin with.

When this person I didn't even know jumped on me, that did it. I snapped. No "hello, how are ya" -- just jumped in and tried to play "cutesie" when it wasn't cute at all, and in fact flew in the face of everything I had said bugged me. In between jumping on me, this person was verbally groping Victoria, and losing all sense of decency and taste. Publicly.

Horrible first impression. Just horrible. So -- that's the thing. It's not so much the blonde jokes. It's the bad manners and "God's gift" attitude. I didn't have the stomach for it. (Oh, and he also told me I should be more like this other person, while wrongly assuming I didn't know her. All this from someone I've never met in my life!)

Okay, sorry, I can't let this mess get to me. It's irrelevant. Gotta let it go. He doesn't seem to be a regular, and tends to only verbally grope Victoria and ignore everyone else. God willing, our paths will rarely or never cross again.

Thanks for listening, Misty!! Love ya, FReeper buddy ol' pal o' mine!!

Beeparoni!

[MistyCA]

Well you know, there are some real advantages to people who are taken automatically as light-weights cause of their looks! Gives them the edge! :) Like Bush, for instance! Gee, wasn't it funny when people were suddenly asking when on earth he sprouted brains???? LOL! My dad was such a good teacher about certain things. He use to say, "don't let anyone know what you have! The minute they think you have something they will start to try to take it away!" LOL! I personally think, like my daughter, that blonde jokes are a sort of compliment! People only have to put something down that they are threatened by. So, when you hear them, no matter how redundant, smile and consider it a compliment. :) OK, my Beepster! Enough of this! :)