[geeks] ADMINISTRIVIA: Changes to mail delivery policies

[Tom Borton]

That reminds me of a co-worker when we were traveling together.  I have
a startup script that randomly picks a picture for a background, and for
our presentations it had been flipping different shots of my (then only)
daughter each time I booted the machine.

Everyone had been amused and he thought she was cute (yes, she has a
sister!), and I asked if (not "when") he and his wife were going to
start a family.  He got this hunted look on his face and kinda mumbled,
"Well, um, no, we only like other people's kids for a visit."  He was
very surprised when I chuckled and said, "Good, don't."

Apparently he had been ambushed too many times by the
"I-think-my-kids-are-wonderful-so-of-course-you're-going-to-have-them"
crowd.  People get married to share their lives.  No one assumes that
every couple likes mountain climbing; why do they assume that every
couple is going to have kids?

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
Of Kris Kirby
Sent: 14 March 2002 18:00
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: Re: [geeks] ADMINISTRIVIA: Changes to mail delivery
policies


On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Amy wrote:
> [1] example: she routinely berates bill for marrying a woman who can't
> have kids. makes pithy little comments like "i had fun with my
> grandson today, too bad i won't be getting any from you."

I like George Carlin's take on this: "You people have a child fetish and
it's not healthy!"

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