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From: Stephen Wilson on 2 Jan 2006 08:15 "Hylander" <john.gagon(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:1136190338.936187.147910(a)g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > > Hylander wrote: >> Actually, it was 13. Sorry, >> >> I think I might have put this: >> >> Score 13 >> >> Story No. 1 B,B,B > It's strange to follow strangers. I'd consider it rude as well. > It's strange to look cross and bringing excess to express lane is rude. If someone was following me I think I'd look cross. And if someone exceeds the limit by just a couple of items, I don't think I'd get upset. > It's strange to overreact like that. "Are you following me?" and Will > you stop following me!" would be more polite. If you're a girl it's probably far more threatening to have a guy following you. So I'd say it's a normal reaction. >> Story No. 2 A,C > Some elevators have windows to outside. It could be normal. Borders on > strange Why would you need a window in an elevator to know what the day is like? I'd say it was just making polite conversation. > Borrowing a comb is not hygeinic and so this was almost shocking. Lice? > Head Grease? Dirt? Gross! It happens sometimes. But not between people who don't even know each other. >> Story No. 3 B,B > Sandwiches probably have meat with sodium nitrite which is harmful to > small animals and pigeons eat seeds. Bread or a bun would be different. > PB&J is not much better. I guess most people wouldn't think about it that much... > Strange to touch someone's baby without permission. I think if a woman saw a stranger touching her baby without her permission she'd have a fit. >> Story No. 4 B,A,B > Who writes addresses without names? Strange. But easy enough to overlook. > Nothing wrong with it I suppose if you don't get caught. Although it is an invasion of privacy. If it's wrong when you get caught, it's also wrong when you don't get caught. > She is his senior so Ms. DeWitt or Madam would be more proper. Guess it would all depend on what she called herself when she originally gave her name to him. Some people are quite particular about the way they are addressed! >> Story No. 5 A,A > Skipping breakfast is normal. Unless you have fixed routines... > She's hungry and it's wasting food. Why not? Sounds reasonable. However, I'd only make that kind of suggestion to someone I knew. >> Story No. 6 A,B,A,B > Normal because some people are vegetarians with hypertension. Certainly less rude than accepting an invitation and then not being able to eat the food that was offered. > A little rude right? Yep! > He didn't eat right? Why would she care if he brought a snack? He could > have hypoglycemia. He could have. But it wasn't stated that he did. In which case he was probably being rather rude. > Rude to delay dinner for someone else when the point of dinner is to > eat together right? The reason he wants to delay is because he'd just eaten some of his own food. I'd say this was incredibly rude! >> Story No. 7 A,A > She's only not touching the forbidden food right? Yep. So she's being polite. > These are parties right? Not eating there and eating at home the food > she can eat seems appropriate. Sounds OK to me. >> Story No. 8 A,A,A,A,B > > Contractors working the yard do this all the time here. Sounds fine. > The area behind the bush might be big enough for a nap or "siesta" like > they do in mexico with their sombreros right? I think it would be deemed unacceptable to his employers... > He needs to eat with clean hands right? She's an employer and invited > him in. If the guest bath is right there and unoccupied. I assume they > know each other. I'm not sure it's the done thing to go searching through a stranger's house without permission. > She didn't object when he asked permission. That must have "implied" it > was ok? He could eat it there tidily. Again, probably best to let the lady know where he was. > After eating, people are tired and she said he could come inside. I'm > assuming it's a rest, not a full out lay down and snooze. A rest is acceptable. A snooze... probably not. > Curling up behind a large chair is strange. Not shocking per se or > really "eccentric". (unless he's puts on a clown wig while doing it?) I > know people who do that or sit on the carpet in front of the sofa but > yes, this was strange. As you say, not exactly shocking but certainly not "normal".
From: Bubbleghost on 2 Jan 2006 09:19 Cerebus Lothario <cerebuslothario(a)btinternet.com> writes >Incidentaly I got an 11 which told me I didn't seem to have any problems but >that a professional would have to diagnose me - go figure!!!!!!! Yo, I got a 7 = normal! BBB BC AA ABA AA ABCD AA AAABC -- Bubbleghost
From: tint_ed on 2 Jan 2006 09:43 Story no. 1. In the supermarket: C, A, A. Story no. 2. In the elevator: A, C Story no. 3. In the park: A, D Story no. 4. The forgotten name: A, D, B. Story no. 5. In the airplane: A, B. Story no. 6. The dinner invitation: A, C,C,C. Story no. 7. Forbidden foods: A, A. Story no. 8. The lunch-time nap: A, A, D, D, D, D. score 10: not indicative for problems with social interaction tinted
From: tint_ed on 2 Jan 2006 10:13 Substituting these answers for Story 8 - A, A, B, B, C, C - my overall score was 7. I put so many Ds before as I'd find it very threatening if a strange man made himself at home in my house without asking permission. I don't know if I'd use the word 'shocking', but I'd find it unacceptable. If I had a friend or partner present, or if the worker was a female or a child or physically weaker than me, I would find it rude but not totally unacceptable. tinted
From: HGJ on 2 Jan 2006 12:28
Cerebus Lothario skrev: > Hylander wrote: > > Hylander wrote: > >> Story No. 8 A,A,A,A,B > > > > Contractors working the yard do this all the time here. > > Yes! I used to go to a quiet place in the hanger for a lunchtime nap every > day. Wrong question. This is where he washed his hands under the hose. The nap behind the bush is the next one. |