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"Martin G. McCormick" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 14 Dec 2014 14:58:54 -0600
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	I coined a fraise for that sort of thing. I like to call
it "store talk." It's what the mercantile class likes to say
when they encounter negative feedback on one of their products.

	It is an easy thing to do and I have been guilty of
store talk, myself when I do some programming at work or have designed
electronic hardware that ended up not performing as expected and
somebody called me out on it. One tends to think that one's
efforts are iron-clad and infallible so if something goes wrong,
it has to be the result of somebody else being too stupid to
live.
	Well, at least I admit to doing that at times and am
usually very sorry for what I did. It still infuriates me when I
hear it from somebody else and I try to avoid it as I get older.
One day, about ten minutes before I die, I will probably think I
have now reached the pinacle of human understanding and then
maybe I'll still have a nasty grin on my face as I slip in to
the abyss.
	While I'm at it, there's another neat store phenomenon
I've noticed. Sometimes, you run in to, or maybe I should say,
they run in to you, bratty kids who seem to have no adult in
charge anywhere around. They run through the isles of the store
and raise bloody Hell.
	My wife and I were once in a store and these kids were
zipping around whooping it up and I realized that they were
speaking another language. I commented later to my wife that
these kids had probably grown up in the store, having been
abandoned by their parents and had evolved their own language so
they could coordinate assaults on the rest of humanity without
anybody else being able to listen in. Sort of a kid version of
code talkers. I call kids like that "store kids"
	When I was little, I admit to being a holy terror but
when I did it in front of my parents, my back side was sore for
a while after that.

73
Martin WB5AGZ

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