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 Thu May 11, 2006 16:16 pm Gem of a husband vs. gem for a husband |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: | | Once a woman in her 20s visited me from Leipzig when I lived in Eastern Europe, and she got very agitated when I washed the few breakfast dishes, as I was trained to at home. She blurted, "THAT'S A RATHER FEMININE ACTIVITY, ISN'T IT?!" and wouldn't stop jumping around the kitchen from nerves until I let her dry them. (I had intended to let them just drain.) I've always wondered if this was characteristic of pre-1989 East Germans, or of her family, or just of her. |
No woman in her right mind should say such a dangerous thing!! 
Anyway, that woman sounds like someone from an older generation, to me -- though I know only too well that, even in our modern day and age, this kind of notions is deeply engrained in (still far too) many women's minds. |
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Conchita
Language Coach
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Location: Madrid, Spain
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| Thu May 11, 2006 22:29 pm Have you ever won anything? |
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Hi
I had won nine months ago an iPod from the company and seeing a bit of jealousy between my colleagues, I had kept talking that the same day it was for me the third lucky choice ,two others were a laptop and a voucher(bill) for gas (petrol) in the states (both won on the internet).
Nobody was really able to challenge my lies (iPod was absolutely real).
I think they were just hating me in silence.
Jan
I know, it is sick but seamen are crazy so and so. |
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Jan
I'm here quite often ;-)
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| Thu May 11, 2006 23:51 pm Gem of a husband vs. gem for a husband |
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| Conchita wrote: | | Jamie (K) wrote: | | Once a woman in her 20s visited me from Leipzig when I lived in Eastern Europe, and she got very agitated when I washed the few breakfast dishes, as I was trained to at home. She blurted, "THAT'S A RATHER FEMININE ACTIVITY, ISN'T IT?!" and wouldn't stop jumping around the kitchen from nerves until I let her dry them. (I had intended to let them just drain.) I've always wondered if this was characteristic of pre-1989 East Germans, or of her family, or just of her. |
No woman in her right mind should say such a dangerous thing!!
Anyway, that woman sounds like someone from an older generation, to me -- though I know only too well that, even in our modern day and age, this kind of notions is deeply engrained in (still far too) many women's minds. |
Actually, she was only 27, so she wasn't from an older generation. She may not have been in her right mind, though, because she had a great resentment for English because it competed with Esperanto. She was also simultaneously a devout Lutheran and a doctrinaire Marxist, which is more or less impossible, but she somehow performed this feat in her own mind. |
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Jamie (K)
I'm a Communicator ;-)
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Location: Detroit, Michigan, USA
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| Fri May 12, 2006 18:19 pm Gem of a husband vs. gem for a husband |
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Hi,
may be she was fine , and we are just to much to normal reads "boring" ?
Jan
I definitely agree with everybody how support the idea
"nice girl who wanted to be cool and absent minded teacher
with a lot of dirty dishes in the kitchen.
(courious about her version). |
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I'm here quite often ;-)
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