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Covaan_Meshuga -> RE: The easily offended (7/1/2008 11:05:53 PM)
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Well, Phosadaud, to write that I am stunned would be to write an understatement. I can't remember seeing an offensive post written by you. Is my memory short or what?
Over the time I have seen you here, I have grown to respect you through your posts. While I am sure that we two do not see eye to eye at all times, what is that to me? It's not something I need to get my tongue all persimmony about.
But with regard to your question, I must admit that yeah, in most cases, I tend to sweet-talk such people into such a whirl that they can't think of anything but being sweet back to me. I talk the melted butter, then pour on the powdered sugar, and top it off with strawberries and cream (ever seen Paula Dean?). I didn't live in Mississippi for three-and-a-half years for nothing. I learned a lot there.
Those people down there can just hate your guts to the nth degree, but by the time you walk away from them, you would never know it, because they smile so sweetly and talk so purty that you'd think you're their best friend. They know who to treat that way: those for whom they don't want to waste their energy -- either physical or mental energy. So they know that they can flatter and charm such people until they lose all their energy, because all they want is flattery. They do that to save physical or mental energy. And the funny thing they also know is that they can smile in the mirror later, because they haven't said a single negative thing!
Yeah, Solomon had plenty to say about people who do this, but Solomon was a king and didn't have to do a lot of dealing with such.
Do you know what they used to say, when talking about someone who cussed them out? They called it something else. They would say, "You know that ol' Bobby Joe Pinkum? Well, I told him those persimmons he sold me were green and I wanted my money back, but he wouldn't do it. He just blessed me out!" [:D] They had a way of expressing themselves.
And it works up here in Washington, too!
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