--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "geezerfreak" <geezerfreak@>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" <feste37@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm all for self-mockery, but I don't think
> > > that's what's going on here, for the most part.
> > >
> > Feste, you're all for "self mockery"? Really? Can you
> > give some examples as it relates to the TMO? Humor and
> > the ability to laugh at oneself are all important
> > aspects of personal growth IMO.
>
> I've got one. I told it before here awhile
> ago, but it's one of my favorite TM-related
> stories and very germane in this context:
>
> I was at the TM facility in Asbury Park some years back;
> it was a pretty fancy hotel that the TMO had bought and
> was running *as* a hotel for regular guests, as well as
> housing various TM administrative folks and course
> participants.
>
> The TMers' food was prepared in the downstairs kitchen,
> all vegetarian, but there was a bigger kitchen upstairs
> that cooked for the guests.
>
> One night I was sitting at a table of TM-lifers during
> dinner. The hotel was hosting a big Bar Mitzvah bash.
> One of the MA-V technicians, a big galoot of a guy
> with a heart of gold who regarded the bliss-ninnies
> with good-humored bepuzzlement, had gone up to the
> guest kitchen to see if he could cadge some real
> food from one of the cooking staff, a friend of his.
>
> So we were sitting there eating our lentils and rice
> and curried cauliflower, and he walked back into the
> dining room bearing a big platter. He came up to the
> table and set down the plate, on which rested a
> gigantic hunk of very rare steak.
>
> Well, you'd have thought there was a severed human
> hand on the plate. The TM-lifers all gasped audibly,
> and one of the more delicate of the ladies actually
> gave out a little shriek. This was totally
> spontaneous; these folks probably hadn't even laid
> eyes on a piece of meat for years, and that bloody
> slab must really have been kind of a shocking sight.
>
> The poor MA-V tech was bewildered. Then everybody
> started laughing, practically falling out of their
> chairs. We laughed until we cried--including the MA-V
> guy, once he realized folks weren't laughing at *him*
> but at their own reaction to his dinner.
>
> It was one of the best group laughs I've ever had
> the pleasure to participate in.
>
Good Judy post. I'm making note of this.
