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RickCorey said:
Such things are seldom or never "right or wrong". They are more like "my personality type differs from your personality type, and I don't understand how or why anyone could be different from me".


When we remember that detail, we can communicate without offending or dissing each other.

Yes, yes, and more yes.

RickCorey said:
(That rant has been building up for 15-20 years, both online and in person. It's not directed at this discussion, it's really directed at something that happened in DG many years ago. Someone asked how many square feet there were in their rectangular raised bed. I converted the feet-plus-inches to decimal-feet and multiplied Width X Length, and gave the answer. Maybe my mistake was in showing my work. Someone complained that this elementary-school-level math was "too technical" and too much detail. That's been like a pebble lodged in my brain for many years. I guess with 52,000 members, not even in ATP/NGA can everyone be happy all the time.)

Sorry to hear about that. I get those things that stick with me, too. With very poignant events, there's a circle that runs around in my head that goes a little something like this:
1) stew over if for awhile
2) eventually get over it
3) 'forget about it'
4) re-remember it at some strange and awkward time...often when I'm engaged in something else so the filter part of my brain that would normally control my motor functions has fewer resources and then I start saying something outloud or visibly cringing at the memory. This usually presents itself as me saying "Oh!" or "Well,..." and then I have to come up with the rest of the sentence to act like I was meaning to talk outloud and get my husband's attention about something.

...am I alone here?