David,
I think you should look at it as you did him a favor in accepting the Slant by allowing him the opportunity to redeem himself and pay penance for his guilt! He will sleep better at night, you're a nice guy, AND you get a new Slant! What a great friend you are. You're practically a Saint!
A cigar!!?? MY MAN, excellent thing to do!! I've heard there is no Cuban cigars in the USA...Is that so? BTW wich one had such cooling effect on your psique?!
Nothing illegal, i hope...
Doc,
When you really think about it.
Did we really survive?
David
A few weeks ago I was having a cigar in Harvard Square, Cambridge before I was to meet some friends. While I'm smoking my cigar I run into three friends of mine. Well we talk then the conversation gets somewhat nasty as in put-downs etc. You know "Guy Talk". Well I generally give it back but I was enjoying my cigar so much I didn't reply.
Well a few days later I get a call from one of them. The guy apologies to me for the "put downs". He felt he was out of line and wanted to say he was sorry. Plus, he told me he was going to 5 PM Mass that day and he felt bad in church thinking about it. I think that by me not replying he thought I was upset.
Then he tells me he knows about my DE Hobby and wants to make it up to me. He then tells me about a brand new Merkur Slant he found recently that he lost behind a bathroom cabinet decades ago. Now he wants to give me it as a "Peace Offering".
While listening to him I realize that one, I'm not upset with him and yes the cigar did help. Two, he is suffering from Catholic Guilt and if you don't know what it is consider yourself lucky. Third, I can get a basically new razor for free.
Now the right thing for me to do is to tell him I wasn't offended and tell him to keep his Slant.
Naaah!!!
Told him his apology was accepted and yes the Slant would make a nice "Peace Offering".
For once in my life Catholic Guilt worked for me!
David
Seriously though, you should have told him that you're not in the least bit offended, and that receiving the razor as a peace offering would be a falsehood and that you'd feel as though you were taking advantage of his beliefs. Instead, you should have suggested that if he had wished to gift it as a gesture of goodwill and friend ship, you'd be happy to accept it.
Doc,
When you really think about it.
Did we really survive?
David
David,
I think you should look at it as you did him a favor in accepting the Slant by allowing him the opportunity to redeem himself and pay penance for his guilt! He will sleep better at night, you're a nice guy, AND you get a new Slant! What a great friend you are. You're practically a Saint!
You know david, reading this...i'm appalled that you took advantage of a mans concept of eternal damnation to score the slant.
100 hail mary's, 100 our fathers, and pif me that slant.
Hell I'm a SNAG.
Sensitive New Age Guy
David
At the risk of turning this political: it IS outdated. It'll probably change in the not-so-distant future as the old order vehemently anti-Castro Cubans are replaced by their less doctrinaire children.
david,
i think you should look at it as you did him a favor in accepting the slant by allowing him the opportunity to redeem himself and pay penance for his guilt! He will sleep better at night, you're a nice guy, and you get a new slant! What a great friend you are. You're practically a saint!
Nice try!
But that's not going to work.
Screw the guilt!
David,
I think you should look at it as you did him a favor in accepting the Slant by allowing him the opportunity to redeem himself and pay penance for his guilt! He will sleep better at night, you're a nice guy, AND you get a new Slant! What a great friend you are. You're practically a Saint!
I understand, respect and agree with your criticisms of Cuba. I do think, however, that our policy is not in line with how we deal with other totalitarian governments (like China) and I think we should be consistent. There wasn't even a travel restriction to the Communist block countries during the cold war. It can reasonably be argued that opening restrictions will eventually help open up Cuban society and even in the short run will improve the lives of Cubans by bringing in dollars. The fact that we still have the embargo is clearly political and not based on general ideals of American foreign policy.
