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She's a very foolish girl.
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In the chair, deftly parrying questions, the conversation slips off course, off topic, circling around and around. It's a slippery interrogation.
Always these things, the elephant in the room.
She's evasive, holding her cards close to her chest. She has many admirers kept on hold, in the wings, at arms length, just far enough to keep their interest, the men in waiting. She loves to play the coquette, cherishes her scarlet reputation as the woman other women love to hate.
She wouldn't have it any other way.
She's beautiful, but it won't last forever, she knows this and the entourage that would pay homage to her favours needs to be fed on a light diet of hope and encouragement. There are no denials, only postponements. Today the phone will ring, tomorrow she will answer with some light excuse as to how busy she's been, busy today, but perhaps on the weekend....
We're equals, or so she thinks, because we're in this room together, she thinks that I want what everyone else has wanted from her, that I am somehow priviledged to be in her presence, fortunate to have been chosen when there are so many others.....
She's a very foolish girl.
Kicking against the pricks...
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It's easier to ignore, why fight it?
It's the way things are. Learn to live with it.
You're right, but what are you going to do about it?
We've surrounded ourselves with pricks. We've planted ourselves a rosebush and made our bed amongst the thorns, best plan: don't roll around.
You can fight, you won't get anywhere.
You have to fight, it's your obligation, your responsibility. If you don't fight, the pricks will multiply, they will take even more and greater liberties with your time and finances. Every fight, win or lose, is a victory.
By pricks I mean the City. I mean the Government. I mean the Corporations and Companies who waste our time on hold, in line, who rob us blind with service charges, with system access fees, with delivery fees. I mean the Banks who charge us to handle our money, charge us for everything, who have created artificial inflation and economies by printing and lending even more artificial money, then expecting us to bail them out when projected earnings fall short....
Corporations when dealing with other corporations have what are called "Service Level Agreements" - SLA's; wherin companies that don't honor their contracts within agreed response times to agreed standards are subject to financial penalties. Send the companies you deal with a Service Level Agreement outlining what you expect from them. Enclose it with your first bill payment, or send it via registered letter. Or don't send it - The contract they hold you to is implicit, not signed, by accepting their product it is presumed that you accept their standards and levels of service. Your own contract can be implicit as well, by accepting you as a customer make them accept your standards and expectations. But know what your standards and expectations are, write them down, be clear, know when they have been violated.
When necessary, make the businesses you deal with aware of your own personal SLA. If they have failed to live up to it, send them bills for your time and expenses. Charge them interest and service fees on unpaid balances. If they continue to resist, send the bills to collection agencies with adjustments for the commission the collection agency will charge. Don't take a lawyers word that you don't have a case, lawyers have been taught to "think" inside the system; their morality is for sale, realize that the jury you help select will not be comprised of lawyers, it will be comprised of people as irate, fed up, and pissed off as yourself. Share your pain, They will understand. Make them understand that their decision will be the first of many steps towards real change.
Deal with people, not companies. By this I mean find local businesses that will value your patronage. Consider the time you spend in line at a large supermarket to save possibly $5 on groceries, then think of the pleasure you'd take in bringing your business to a smaller enterprise that didn't keep you waiting in line and valued your business. Create value and diversity in your neighborhood, avoid the big box marts, the mega stores and shopping malls like the plague. Think of the diversity and choice that is lost as the smaller businesses give way to make room for the larger ones. And remember that the lower prices are offered by paying lower wages, skimping on benefits, shortened training and no enrichment programs. Their lower prices are only ever a temporary incentive to squash the smaller businesses; when all competition is gone you will be paying the highest price possible.
It's your responsibility.
2 Cars. I'll take the bus.....
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I have 2 cars. The first, an blue 80's Chrysler Daytona. A friend gave it to me about 4 years ago, it's been a good car, I've put around 80, 000 Km on it with a minimum of maintenance, 2 alternators, a tune up, runs great. But the doors have stopped opening, or to be more precise, closing, when you open them they fall down off the hinges, and so we keep them closed and hop in through the windows. Apparently this is a common thing for this car. "It's Cool" I tell the kids, but I don't think they believe me. What parent is an authority on "cool"? And the electric's are a bit funny, and so the windows don't always close when you're inside and the speedometer doesn't always work, but these are small things, it's a good car, it runs great. A couple of months ago, though, it got a flat, and so I parked it in the driveway, it's been filling with snow and leaves ever since.
TO fill in the gap a friend gave me her old car, a black 90's Volkswagon Jetta, she had just bought a new car, "this car", she warns me, "could die at any moment", and so forwarned gives me the keys. And I've been driving instead, flagrantly disloyal to the blue car, the children liking the novelty of getting in through the doors, the boy had been getting self-conscious of jumping in through the windows of the old car when I picked him up from school (he wasn't buying my arguments about how this was "Character building", he saw it as proof instead of my lack of worldly success). And he's sort of proud that I've got this new car, this Volksagon, his mom has one too, so I must be coming along in the world.
At first the black car sort of runs OK, but not really, it over-revs, my door and the windows stop working as soon as I take possession, the engine smokes as if it's on fire whenever I stop for a red light or get stuck in traffic. But it's better than nothing. Soon, however, the cars fate is sealed, the transmission dies, there is no prospect of affording another, it's beyond repair, time for me to call the Kidney foundation, or that number I found tucked under the windscreen - 'Cars Towed by Vince'...."how could they tell?" I wonder.....
I'm pissed off. I've just filled it with gas, with antifreeze, I checked the transmission fluid, but it's always the way.
I have 2 cars, but I'll be taking the bus.
68 Seconds
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"68 Seconds" he tells me..."If you can just sustain the thought, the intention of wealth, for 68 seconds then it will happen".
He's been talking to someone famous who channels aliens.
"28 seconds is the equivilent of working 2000 hours. But the growth is exponential, hold the thought, the gratitude for 68 seconds and it will happen. Think as if it's already yours.....".
I've tried it. 68 seconds is too long.
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