Re: David Pogue's column - New York Time

[Michele <michele -at- krautgrrl -dot- com>]

In my sordid past I dated several Special Forces guys and several 
Marines. A friend from high school who was in the Air Force and is now 
in the AF Reserves seems to have the same attitude all the other 
military guys I dated. They're amazing, they are above all of us who 
have, what seems to them, easy jobs. My AF friend is a physical 
therapist and his job is so much more demanding than my own. Matter of 
fact, his whole life is more demanding than my own. He has no partner, 
no children, no concept at 40 what it's like to have a client yelling at 
you because he promised you feedback on a manual, never gave it, and you 
were still supposed to intuitively *know* that you were supposed to 
finish said manual with no feedback.

As the song Deliverance says, "walk a mile in her shoes and see what 
your life is like" or something like that. Unless you've dealt with 
difficult clients, written a book with programmers that *think* they can 
crank out code at record speed and have some chatting content in 
between, you don't know, having been in the military or not what my life 
is like. Oh, and have a teen who thinks the world revolves around him. I 
just realized today that my teen thinks I do nothing while he's at 
school. I'm just sitting around *playing* on the computer until he 
summons me to drive him (and friends in tow) somewhere. Oy. I don't know 
what the military is like, but I do know, having had a grandma in the 
Army during WWII that I wouldn't tolerate how they would have treated me.

What I want to know is how the Marine being discussed even knows what 
Melissa gets paid. How was he privy to that information?

Michele

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Michele E. Davis, MFA, Ph Dr.,  Writer
Kraut Companies
612-824-3516
612-309-6903 (cell)
www.krautgrrl.com
www.krautboy.com
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