tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425460371988606696.post5046376335057622864..comments2023-10-06T06:05:13.866-05:00Comments on De-Composition: Friday Night SalonGingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03488794307486861447noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425460371988606696.post-46618660542338712902008-11-12T21:20:00.000-06:002008-11-12T21:20:00.000-06:00OK, I'll start. :)I am completely stoked and curio...OK, I'll start. :)<BR/>I am completely stoked and curious about all of the questions except for one. And maybe that's the one I need to discuss the most. Number one is almost enough to make me not want to attend the salon this Friday, and that says a lot. I usually look forward to going for an entire month! We get to go into the Metroplex, eat out, dress up a little and get to sit among some of the brightest, most eloquent folks in all of the city. This week, I don't want to go. <BR/><BR/>For the same reason, Christine nudged me back into our favorite coffee house hang out. I didn't want to go. I haven't posted about it, and I don't really want to go into specifics because it is mostly a blurr, but I was pretty much verbally accosted for standing up (in a very non-confrontational, measured way) for something I believe in. The man who was rude to me created a very loud, disrespectful scene even after I politely asked him to stop talking to me. Part of what he was yelling at me about was what happened on November 4th. And when he was done (distracted really), and entire room surrounded me to make sure I was OK and to tell me that he was out of line. <BR/><BR/>There has been so much irrational yelling and illogical one-liners spewed, that I have lost respect for a lot of people in my community. <BR/><BR/>That being said, I am afraid that I'll lose repect at the salon, too, even though I know that people there are practiced at hearing each other and considering each other's statements. Conversation never gets out of hand or catty, and even when we disagree, we do it intelligently, with composure and respect.<BR/><BR/>I need to remember that.Gingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03488794307486861447noreply@blogger.com